Recent content by FishFinger

Dodge park is one location to keep on your radar, as we move towards Aug and Sept it's a great place to get your feet wet as the Coho begin to show.

When I told my wife I was trolling with a wedding ring, her expression was priceless...

That is absolutely beautiful!

SS you have a point there... pun intended lol. There is a level of hook mortality when pinching. I have a old Price Jr fly vise that I use to crimp barbs. Even with slow even pressure some tips do break off. From my experience, it seem to be my old mustads the fail most often.

A battery tender is money well spent.

The Fix is simple, pinch the barb.

Those hooks pictured are called Snell hooks, designed specifically to hold bait on the hook shank. There are plenty of hooks available w/o the barbed shank feature. If you don't want your bait to slide down to the bend of the hook, then snells are used. To buy snelled hooks only to remove the...

Lonn, You are truly a Guardian Angel. My prayers go out to the family of the one lost.

That's terrible news, this is just the beginning of the heavy tourist usage season too. Thanks for the report.

I would suggest launching near the dam and work that water first. There after head west and try the log jams. Stock up on weedless hooks or rig up Texas style. Fishing the jams will require casting over floaters to water deep into the wood pile.

"I caught you a tasty bass" Napoleon DYNAMITE!

The log jams along the west bank are a good bet, great habitat. Having been said my dad and I visited CP about 2 weeks ago and the angling was not so epic. Perhaps the water temp wasn't quite warm enough to spur a lot of action. We faired about the same while hunting bucket mouths @ Wickiup...

Great information! Thanks for your report.

The main question standing is, do you intend to bring a boat? If so, here's what you might expect... Speaking to folks at the launch yesterday morning, the Kokanee bite is early, most boats had limits; trolling and jigging, from sunrise to 8am. There after things really slowed down. As...

CarpZilla! Great kill. Well being the SIZE of a salmon, a LEO could be confused. lol