By the way H2O,
There will be many of pics to come in the future, and YES almost everyone of them will be fish that are caught on bait...

And back to the SQUAWFISHIES I was talking about... It's said that these worthless trashfish are one of the main predators to our smolt in our SW WA river systems and lower columbia tribs... Perhaps you haven't fished the EF of the lewis in the summertime when the water is like a bathtub full of these worthless brown turds up to 3-4 pounds and full of steelhead and salmon fry, and also including bugs, periwinkles, and the minute plankton that our smolt need to survive.. But the game department doesn't care to do much about ridding our lower columbia tribs to these trashfish...

Another study WDFW did on the EF that just cracks me up is they put a "cone" in the lower river in which catches all downward moving smolt, fish, etc... Then they'd come every other day and check their little cone trap and (tag or horass) our poor little native fry/smolts in that 60 degree water to transport them back up river and check the success of their downriver cycles... Was that necessary, NO... But they went on and did it.. What they should be doing is running mesh nets through the holes and cleaning out the squawfish and rid the SW WA rivers of this predatory problem...
Keith