Recent content by catphish

craw or a t.r.d. rigged sennko

the steelehead run on the santiam has been dismal for a couple seasons now. the trout fishing is always fun and active. I want to try trout w beads. Im off today

a freckled eggwagon I landed

Thank you fish4life. I greatly appreciate the input.

I live in Keizer, and Im on-call all week at the hospital, so I can't roam too far. I know the santiam fishing sucks, Its my local river, but a day on the bank beat sitting here on the laptop or watching tv. have to be scrubbed in within 45 min if pager goes off. can't do that from the clack. but...

For the love of all things fishing related, will someone please inform me where I can get decent bank access along the South Santiam. I dont have a boat, sucks, but its true. The North Santiam has been terrible, short of buying my out of state lic for Wash, where my buddy has limited the last 3...

My brothers/friends/o'hana and I just split it depending on the number of us there. We end up buying each other beers at the Sea Hag or variant, and could care less if an invitee were to pitch in or not. It is always appreciated, but we dont own boats. My expenses are gas and what........time...

i need wheels if he doesn't, and the price isn't bad.

funny, I was already shopping materials off his site. didn't realize he had a shop down the road from me. looks like I know where Im going Saturday

Ok, after hemming, and hawing with my brother for the past couple weeks, we want to attempt to make some spinners for ourselves. Building them is not so difficult, our question is: What size wires are optimal for builds. What size wire works best for trout, steelehead, and salmon? I had a random...

My brother said his coworker landed a steelie on the McKenzie 1.5 weeks ago. Parked at Leaburg hatchery and walked down river a bit I was told.

Id call it snagging Id call it snagging unethical for sure . There are some people on this site, that shall remain nameless, who do this "all the time", according to them "yes straight from their mouth." People you all worship and kiss butt to a degree at one time or another. Just notice...

cedar at the sandy hatchery. and I think the bridge is still out, so you will have to drive around dodge park way.

life must be a challenge with that bright blue fur on his face. nice fish.

just wondering, but with that red marking on throat, reddish/orrange fins, isn't that a cutthroat? Dynamite catch. Theres a big hole at milepost @&, that is used as a weekend swimming hole. Its been holding some fatties, unless they been fished out. Once they got in there, they were stuck...