Recent content by Taku

If you trailer it, talk to your manufacturer. On a Honda, I was told to never trailer it with the float bowl empty. The float was not intended to bounce around with every bump as it will damage it or the stem. It was designed to be suspended in fuel. If you use your boat regularily, and use...

The comfortable way to get her some is go to Tony's in OC and buy them. They have some Alaska smelt there now. A good batch of fried smelt sounds good. We used to eat them all the time, but we dipped them on the Sandy and the Cowlitz, but hasn't been a good run on the sandy for several years...

Just go get some day old "wonder bread" and make doughballs. Canned corn after it sets out in the sun for a day is good too. You always used to be able to catch a lot around the outlets of the sewer plants too <G> They eat bad things <LOL> Ever wonder how they discovered corn... don't ask...

The Willamette is chock full of carp. Some in the 30 to 40 lb class. When I was a kid I fished for them every day and sold them to Tony's fish market in OC. While everyone was out picking berries or beans, I fished for carp. It was back when Ruth and Claire Huff owned Sportcraft Landing. I...

This a snipe hunt ?<G>

Having it for dinner tonight, and so are the kids and grandkids. Still enough left for more steaks tomorrow and a roast. Spent all day today from 5:30 am (or zero dark thirty) till 4:30 this afternoon and NADA. The bankers looked like they may have caught a couple, but nothing in the boats...

I think there is one more thing beyond the intensity of fighting a springer and not paying attention to hazards is the sea lions. We heard the 2nd report today of a sea lion nearly sinking a boat. We fished by a guy that had a big gash and dent in his aluminum boat from a sea lion trying to come...

The canoe is great for calm waters for trout and bass and such. My guess is you will have some hair raising moments trying to chinook fish from a canoe. Even steelhead if you are talking the Clack or similar river. We have seen drift boats flip there when they were preoccupied and not paying...

Pics huh... ok ok We used to get a lot of 25 to 45 lb fish there. Seems they are all small now.

Oh yeah and I'll be reminded all year long about my paying a couple hundred for all the bait and her catch on a $5 lure. Was good to see the adrenalin in her expression though when we went from 14 ft of water to 6 ft and she realized it wasn't the bottom...:-)

My wife drew first blood today for the springers. I go out and buy a case of herring and a case of prawns for the season. We go out this morning and... she does not like to use herring or prawns and puts on a thinfish wobbler. BAM... 20# clipped Chinook.. She scored first blood for this season...