Recent content by shiverfix

The Colorado pikeminnow would cause quite the dust up on the fishing forums in CO. Funny how the northern pikeminnow has a bounty here, and the Colorado pikeminnow is an endangered species. It was also funny to me what native species are considered important. The same people that think we...

I'm a 4th generation Colorado native who has lived here for a just about a year and a half. I do have deep roots in the Pacific Northwest, and spent most summers with my grandparents up on Pender Island in BC, and have ancestry in Oregon and Washington. My wife was born and raised in Klamath...

I was actually thinking about this thread being hijacked, and was going to suggest we move to the Off Topic section if we wanted to continue. However, there is something else I want to say on this thread. I appreciate that, regardless of people's opinions or political bend, everyone stayed...

Even government programs are subject to the same market pressures as private business. I don't know all of the costs involved in raising fish and rule enforcement, but we can make some assumptions here. For example, it takes electricity, fish food, and labor to run a hatchery. I'm sure the...

We pay higher prices for all kinds of things that didn't improve, and never complain about it (at least not directly, maybe when we complain about inflation). For example, a Big Mac cost $2.39 in 2000, $4.29 in 2010, and $4.95 today (depending on what market you are in). Yet we still buy them...

No worries, I wasn't offended. At the end of the day what we all want is to go fishing! ;)

The problem is (and this is coming from someone who agrees with you) we have to manage it, because we have altered it so much. We have to manage deer and elk populations because the predators are gone (or have reduced numbers). We have to manage stocked fish populations (like the pike on...

I agree as well, I'm sure there is waste in the bureaucracy. Heck, I've worked in senior management for private business for years (going on a couple decades) and the amount of waste I see there is ridiculous, and that directly affects a bottom line. I try to balance between trusting the...

But I am paying for a service. I am paying for stocking, rules enforcement, rescue, etc... Yes, we could go around and around all day about if the money is being managed well or not, that is not an argument I am going to get into because I don't know the history of ODFW well enough to speak to...

Nope. People have budgets. If you spend your money on a Blazers game, you don't have that money to spend on something else. It's about the choices and decisions we make. I choose to spend my money on a fishing license instead of other things. That license gives me access to something I want...

It's funny to me, when I travel I like to try and get some fishing in, and have spent a fair amount of time on different state fishing forums before I go, and people complain about their fish and wildlife in every state. I still visit the fishing forum I was on in Colorado before I came here...

My wife and I took the beautiful and wind free day to get out to the coast. She did well, but the Oregon fishing gods still hate me. Need to figure out how to break this curse.

It's all perspective, I am from Denver, and I think it IS humid here to go with the heat! But yes, this is hot by any standard, even from someone from the high desert.

Having been here less than year, this is my first shad run. I tried a few different setups based on what I saw online plus suggestions. By far, the best setup for us has been a 1/2 to 3/4 inch slinky weight on a three way swivel, a 24 to 36 inch leader, and a shad dart with the hook slightly...

Went out on 6-20-2021 Put a new stern drive on the boat, and it has to go through 5 hours of break in at low RPM, so the trip was just supposed to be a couple hours of that, but we got bored and dropped the bow mount down and started trolling instead. Went to Estacada, but it was bank to bank...