Joe (Superfly) took Doug (FH5) and I to float a zipperlip section of an Oly Pen river today and it was flat out thick with bright silvers and greyish 'nooks. And only 3 other boats were in the same area! Thanks Joe! We landed well into double figures of big fish and lost many too. We only kept some hens (pictured below), releasing most of the fish. After a couple of slower than expected trips recently, this was like fishing in B.C. today. ...

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BTW, for you F III Waaaaasie's, I landed and released a would be limit of salmon before the 2 Dawgs started hooking fish. That must have been an 'OR' omen for the Floatilla. ...

I can't say where this was but you could probably find out by booking a guided trip with Joe and promising not to reveal the location. Thanks much again 'Fly.

RT

Nice Fish RT, and Joe. I just hope that the fishing will stay this hot for a while.

Seems to me I let you guys get the "boots" out of the way so I could catch the double digit fish . Sorry RT, Joe caught the only boot didn't he

Fishhead5

And we "Wassies" just tremble at you're approach
either that or you just fell down...again...Os

I guess it takes a Wassie to put you on to fish

The Orygunner gets led by the nose to the fish by one of Washington's finest........and then the Orygunner calls us Waaasies.

I bet you're glad that some Waaasies "guided" you to the fish and let you have some fun, huh RT?

Funny how RT is always calling us waaaaasie's but he fishes our rivers all the time...RT GET OUT of my state..you oregoonian. :p TM

HEY HEY HEY ! Those are low blows and it has really hurt my feelings. Don't any of you guys up there have a heart? Now I'm going to go cry for while to vent the hurt deep within. .....

..... NOT. You wuuuuusie Waaaaasies show me the fish and I will show you how to catch them. It's not as hard as you think. Oh wait, you all got schooled up in Waaaasieville. Guess it could be kinda hard to figure out for you. ... jk jk jk ... BTW Os, ask the guys who pushed the boat upriver a long ways thru rapids without falling once (the falling has been on muddy slopes with smooth soled boots, and in Joe's boat with his "Big Dawg Long Island Tea" within ) and then I immediately got on the sticks and rowed the rest of the long way upstream to the launch (saving having to run a long ways back downriver) and didn't even breath hard like they did. Truth! Not kidding on that one. :p Working out does pay off! Although 'Fly is in pretty good shape. .....

Now "Waaasie" kidding aside, that irreverant term was 'coined' for the F III trash talkin. That's all. I fish Washington a lot because I love it up there. I am a man of no state in reality - except who I pay taxes to. Borders in a land of the free are just imaginary crap to give us something to spam about. I am a 'Waaaaaasie' at heart. Just don't tell any Orygonners that wouldn't have the 'cells' to understand (most of them do, and have the same 'tude as me - and I love Oregon too). Joe is a good friend and excellant fishermen. I haven't spilled any zippers we've fished ever - and won't! Thanks a bunch again Joe. I owe you some trips down in Orygone. It's pretty cool down here too; although we are a bit more dependant on fall rains for river salmon fishing. Not as spectacular of mountain scenery here, which I love, but no Indian nets either; except on the upper Columbia. That's worth quite a lot as you well know. If not for those tribal nets, the Pen would be like coastal B.C. Awesome.

RT