I've decided that it just doesn't matter where a fisher sleeps at night - it matters where they fish. Since I have fishing licenses for OR & WA and fish almost equally in both states, I consider myself a regional fisherman. Let's see, we've affectionately refered to Oreos and Wassies in fish and football threads, but what can we call a regional fisher? A Reggie? OK, I'm a reggie. So instead of the easy to do trash talkin down of the Wassies (they are lame of course) and the over -rated Oreos (not bad though) I will concentrate on trash talking teams or individuals entering F4.

I'll start with myself. OK Dan, no, I'm not going to catch a fish this time. I simply refuse to catch a fish in a Flotilla. I do all my multi-fish days outside of flotillas. The question for you Dan is will you even show up?!? shocked This is the big one, on neutral territory - except for guys that fish there a lot (Giz and Thumper, etc.) Jeff has said he's coming to F4. Remember this time bro, the Columbia doesn't have salt in it! Leave the Coyotes and downriggers at home. Osprey, lucky star of F1 with one fish caught and one that bit but he crackered it off. Dan reportedly caught one too, but it sure looked a couple days old to me. laugh I did backrow the "Renegade Whiteman's" d-boat with a 'poly into one on and off; but not from crackering it. The fish was a cracker - it couldn't get his dang mouth around a simple Tadpoly. How hard can that be for a piece of plastic that couldn't swim away from it. Just a typical Wassie cracker steelhead brat. :p And of course, Fly and I having to give 'Yall rowing lessons cost us at least 5 or 6 fish. But hey, the guy had to learn the sticks, and the sooner the better. Besides, we were to sick to row much. rolleyes . Justin had his mojo going on the sticks and also had one on a 'poly as I recall. But that's the only way he can catch feesh. He still doesn't know what a bait bite feels like. Oh, there's always F2 >

Well, F1 'star' Osprey and bass feeeshin cohort 'Yall head to Oreoville for F2. I didn't get to go. I did the needy kids fishing event at O.C., scheduled the same day, or I would have undoubtedly caught 10, 12, maybe 15 fish just by myself; with my boat team getting 20+ summer steelies/springers combined in F2. But the 2 Wassies? Muh ha ha ha ha - blanked, when all sorts of fish were caught by those average Oreos were that were there. Hey, no prob guys, it can happen to anyone.

Then we finally have about half Wassies and half Oreos in F3 on the NF Lewis. I was able to go this time. Dan K.'s Wassie team took top honors by 1 fish more than Dan And Bait Boy's Oreo team. But we never saw the fish; but we believe them. Of course, my boat would have won this event easily if I hadn't purposely handicapped myself by not only debarbing my hooks but also cutting the outer 1/8th" of hook points off to a blunt tip; just trying to make it a little more challenging by evening the playing field - not to mention not knowing the NF worth a crap and having lamos Stew and Spooled in my boat (jk you 2 guys - at least you hooked a fish apiece). So ...

I will not blunt my hooks for F4. But when I feel a bite I will cracker set it too early to make sure I keep my flotilla record intact (unless I hear about some dollars floatin around laugh ).

And Giz, how could you even think of allowing BOE in your boat?!? He scares away springers faster than sea lions do! And Mark Z and Nanook, you guys like to anchor I've heard. That should work well on some slots in the area F4 is being held. However, you guys can't troll anywhere but thru bobber water holes though. What if trolling is the ticket on April 13th? We'll throw some bobbers out there to make ya feel right at home trolling. wink C&E, what can we say about your chances? "*******"! HOGTIDE will be a tough boy with his home field advantage of fishing around the St. Helen's to mouth of the Lewis R. area. Maybe we should make sure he is 'tide' up somewhere. And Jack? Anyone with a moniker of "THUMPER" has got to have a better chance at shooting a rabbit out there than getting a springer. How about team Vision? Or will it be team "in nobody's vision" again, by being chicken to show up?

I forget who else has posted they are going. So more trashin later. smile