Recent content by plumbertom

Okay. I would wonder why it popped up in my feed, being so old. It's not as if I search the archive looking for outdated stuff to comment upon. Nevertheless, I hope someone can find my ravings useful.

I lived and worked in SoCal for most of my life. Like you I got used to local waters. for the same species. I have fished most of the water within a couple hundred miles or so of LA. Just to spark interest, I suggest lake San Antonio on the central coast for striped bass, Nascimento lake nearby...

If your looking to fill your freezer, Oregon ain't the place to do it on one day of fishing. Salmon and steelhead being limited to one or two fish per day depending on species and waters. That being said, Hit the ocean for rock fish and ling cod that will provide the most generous bag limits...

I don't know. There are Blue cats in Idaho waters. And I'm almost certain that Idaho is responsible for Channel cats and Flathead cats being in Oregon waters. Reports of 50 lb channels always makes me think it just might have been a Blue.

Or possibly a Blue. They aren't even uncommon in that size, and are often mistaken for channel cats by those unfamilier with catfish.

My curiosity is aroused. I'm wondering what stretch of the Willie you were fishing? I have been told that Channel Catfish are rare to the point of being almost nonexistent in the Willamette above the Falls but are common below there.

Thank you for participating in helping promote what could become an improved resource for many anglers in Oregon's Willamette Valley. Catfish could easily improve the numbers of fishers participating in our sport. More participants translates to more licenses sold and thereby more revenue for...

Yeah, and I don't think $5 would cover retail of a jar of powerbait today. The bag of Mousetails are just under that at Bi-mart, or they were a couple of weeks ago.

I've checked the Berkley Store and they don't offer anything I can find called a Spring Green. They do have the Chartuse and a Lime Green, though.

Yeah, I always have a couple jars of power eggs in my bag. But, of late I've been using Berkleys Mousetails. Mostly because of where I've been fishing. Pretty much the same as power eggs but with the trailer tails. In the slow moving water of the A-B Canoe Canal, I believe the tails provide a...

My first trip to the Kirk ponds parking lot I tried foshing below the dam in the Long Tom outlet area. I did catch a couple of crappie about 4'' each. But just downstream from where I was fishing, there is a low head dam or weir, and in the river below it I could see a number of carp circling...

Couple of pounds each, but on the very light rig I prefer for crappie they were fun to pull on.

Well, I've dipped a crappie jig a couple of times there where the creek crosses under the hwy. Mainly because it looks sooo fishy and it's very close to home for me. And I keep hearing that there are crappie that hang around that bridge. All I've managed to do there is catch a couple of carp...

Only thing I can offer is that while boat fishing Fern Ridge I have caught a number of largemouth in the one to two pound size. They were all taken along the riprap of the dam and marina. All hit Crappie Killer cranks, as I was attempting to locate some crappie.

For those still interested in channel catfish in the Willamette Valley, here is my latest conversation with an ODFW spokesperson; First from about a two weeks ago: Yes we did stock 1,000 channel catfish spread between Blue Lake, Adair Pond, St Louis Pond, and Bond Butte Pond. We purchased the...