Do those jigs really work?

Fish on at his feet...middle of rod somewhere behind the ear...and after the sharp *snap*...gee I wonder how that happened.

How did you get that one?

Is that a Steelhead?

From a stranger passerby...can I get a picture with your fish?

There's plenty of room here.

I use 25# mono on my 8'6 medium.

Fishing thru a bankers hole.

The guy below who must wade up to his ass right in the slot to fish the other side.

If your gonna catch a fish you better switch to a 12' leader.

FJ...out.

THis year on the puyallup this guy was telling me that all wild fish breed in hatcherys and no wild fish spawn in nature anymore.

i was like ok..

can you tell if this is a king or a silver?....
It's hooked forward of the gill plate....yeah man, its a keeper, don't lose it...
How do you keep these bait casters from messing up, this is my first time with these kind of reels :p

I was on the snohomish,by Thomas'eddy fishing for humpies last year, when the park ranger told the guy next to me to dump his beer or he would get a ticket. The guy starts in about where it says he could'nt drink beer in the park, and the ranger smiles and points to the sign where the guy has his rod leaning and says right there!

These 3 have stuck with me even though they happened long ago:

While fishing chums at Potlatch because all of the rivers were blown, this guy next to me is keeping only the skankiest bucks. So I ask him why and he proceeds to sniff one up and down and says "I can tell by the smell which ones will be best in the smoker." Needless to say I just about fell down laughing, and the guy gave me a dirty look and walked off.

Another time while fishing Blue Creek (Remember this was LONG ago) A guy next to me thinks he has a take and sets the hook. He comes up empty-handed and turns to me and says "That was a 3-salt hen. I could tell by the way it bit."

I once fished the Carbon river during salmon season. (Snagging season is more like it ) Anyway, one guy was more successful at foul-hooking than the other guys. So they ask him "What color corkie are you using?"
Like one color sticks in the fish's a$$ better than another.

Aren't those spoons for snagging?

What are you feeling for?

I like using a treble.

Dragging em in by the tail and clubbing em.

Do fish actually take corkies?

They will only hit on eggs.

There's no fish here lets go home.

Nobody else is getting em.

It's a desert.

It's at least 35#'s.

You won't catch any fish there...I've already tried.

20 yards and in...yah right.

Try this color it's the only one that works.

FJ...out.

The fish rehooked itslef........this what this moron said as he was dragging an a$$ hooked steelhead out of the water..............

Hell yeah, salmon bite double corkies below a hook while plunked on the bottom! True words from a snagger at the RV park on the Kalama.

It will smoke up good...... Ive heard this way too many times when someons lands a nasty looking salmon.

I never snag fish! From a guy that uses 12' leaders and chases a fish downstream and out of sight of other anglers to land a 5 lb steelead.

Why go to the river--You can spend endless hours here

Five years ago a guy walks down into the Bark Hole with his bonkin' stick tied to his belt...every single person around him limits in 1/2 hour or less, evry fish he asks "Can I bonk it?"...of course he gets no satisfaction.

I've gotten my limit and I am waiting for my friend to get his...bonkin' stick guys rod twitches slightly so he screams "fish on" and literally sets the hook so hard he jerks the little 9 inch cutthroat out of the water so hard it hits him in the chest...

Three war whoops later this guy clubs his "trophy"...three times!!!

An hour after I start fishing the wife asks "Are you done yet"?

"sand shrimp don't work for steelhead"
"i invented using sand shrimp for steelhead"
"stop talking, you're spooking the fish"

Hey man do you think I can reel that one in?

Hey how about a pitypole?

I'm sick of fishing, let's go home....

The unmistakable sound of a bait caster backlashing, then, Shane I messed up your reel...

The Mid-Western tourist that set up camp at riverside and launched a 6' flat-ended pram named "Puddles" every day and rowed circles in the frogwater hole, dragging a diving plug meant for bass.
The killer is that he did unbelievably well on springers using this technique. Idiot. He ought to learn how to *really* fish!

diana

On a river... as this guy is leaving, "you'll have better luck somewhere else, i fished that hole out this morning (within the first 20 mins i hook 2)

Tyler

TTT,
Thats only because you are a legend

Actually said this one tonight...
I cant go fishing, I have to work.

Tight lines
RL

Urban Cowboy type on the Quil yards in a very nasty looken summer chum....grabs it like he's gonna take it home to wife. Asked him what he thought he was doin keepen a Federally protected threatened fish....gave me a crappy look and tossed the nasty looking thing back in the river...and stomped off.

Cowlitz River (Blue Creek)... guy launching sled by himself. Removed tie downs and bow hook. Backed down hard- boat... middle of the river!

Kalama River... Guy casts a little too long. Gets hung up on the far side bank. Pulls rod back really hard. Pencil lead slingshots back hitting him right between the "running lights."
(Ouch!!)

Sometimes the entertainment is better than the fishing- gotta love it!

Downriggin'

"Hi my name is Steve Hanson also known as RT"

Stupidest thing I dever saw happened on the Nooch a few years ago. Fishing at my Dad's property above the spillway. A friend of one of the lots by him was fishing the big deep slot by the bend. This is back when ti was super deep next to the bank we were standing. So landing a fish by beaching was out, had to net it at the bank. My Dad and I had done well all week, but was slow this day. This guy was standing there with his wife casting a steelie spoon. He hooks into a nice 35+lb king. He had only brought an oversized trout net, short handled to boot. Bbail was maybe 1 foot across max. I haad my big frabill landing net and offered to net fish for him ssince it was about played out. Hhe gives my Dad and I the "don't go there" hand an says "I can landd this fiish with this net easily. I've landed 50b kings on the Chehalis with this net. You have to postition the net with your foot and drag fish into the bail. Then scoop iit up. Stand back and watch a master at work." He proceeded to bring that fish in FOUR times. Easy nets all 4 times with a BIG net. Hell, the head on this king was as big as the whole bial of the net. Well, fourth time did it. He tried to pull this fish into this little neet and net popped ouut ffrom his foot and snipped his leader. My Dad and I laughed as fish swam away. He picked up his net (which he had to get soaked to fetch out of the river), grabbed his gear and sstomped off with his wife. He could've had a nice buck if he would've let us net the fish.

Hmmmm, worst thing I've seen on the river is a 18' super V alumaweld headed over the riffle with no place to go, except just about over me

Jiggn