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#214412 - 10/10/03 05:54 AM Your best spot and tackle?
Jeff J Offline
Parr

Registered: 08/17/03
Posts: 59
Loc: Issaquah
If you could fish one place, for one day where would it be?

Mine would be a repeat of 10 years ago with my dad and his dad, steelhead fishing on Cowlitz near Lexington.

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#214413 - 10/10/03 09:43 AM Re: Your best spot and tackle?
Divers Offline
Spawner

Registered: 04/21/99
Posts: 936
Loc: Seattle
I would have to choose Kamchata.
The pristine Zhupanova river with Steelheads breaking 30+ lbs. thumbs

My choice tackle would be a 8WT with eggs and leech patterns.

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#214414 - 10/10/03 10:16 AM Re: Your best spot and tackle?
herm Offline
Returning Adult

Registered: 02/06/02
Posts: 306
Loc: hermanghardtke@yahoo.com
wink

I'd have to say Hoodsport, middle to late Nov.

Shimano "Tuna Taker", spinning reel with 80# Tuff-Line, large green Buzz Bomb with a large treble trailer rigged 5 3/4" behind.

Tried lighter gear but just couldn't get the proper hookset!

laugh laugh wink laugh laugh


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#214415 - 10/10/03 12:50 PM Re: Your best spot and tackle?
DJFISHS2XS Offline
Returning Adult

Registered: 12/19/02
Posts: 274
Loc: Oak Harbor Wa
I hate to say it but it would be the susquhana river near the Penn/MD state line, in the dead of winter throwing bill norman crank baits at the warm water discharge of the conowingo power plant....Can you say over 500 bass between 3 people in one day...we had to brake ice to put the boat in and froze most of the day but it was "lets just fish a little longer"kinda days..>>DJ

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#214416 - 10/10/03 01:09 PM Re: Your best spot and tackle?
Dave D Offline
River Nutrients

Registered: 10/04/01
Posts: 3563
Loc: Gold Bar
My most fun trip this year was Shad fishing on the Columbia with a light action Trout rod.
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#214417 - 10/10/03 01:22 PM Re: Your best spot and tackle?
Mr. Twister Offline
Returning Adult

Registered: 01/06/01
Posts: 345
Loc: wa
How about fly fishing for the North Fork Stilly Deer Creek summer runs 25 years ago.

There were no car break-ins, the only poaching was by neighborhood kids, and the fish were plentiful and the river beautiful.
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#214418 - 10/10/03 03:39 PM Re: Your best spot and tackle?
eddie Offline
Carcass

Registered: 03/08/99
Posts: 2379
Loc: Valencia, Negros Oriental, Phi...
Heli fishing for steelhead on the North coast of British Columbia - Rivers Inlet area, Knight Inlet, Skeena system - wouldn't matter where. I'd probably gear fish or float and jig just because I love that style.
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#214419 - 10/10/03 03:46 PM Re: Your best spot and tackle?
Sky-Guy Offline
The Tide changed

Registered: 08/31/00
Posts: 7083
Loc: Everett
Well, I have had my best year fishing ever. Looking back at all of 2003, I have caught the most quality fish (non-humpy) at West point in the first two months of the year. It was Blackmouth central there last winter, and we nailed about 30 bright chrome BM's between me and my buddy. We went from, maybe we will catch a fish or two? ....to being pissed if we didn't limit. That's pretty good for BM fishing.

Thats why we held that Derby... but by the time derby day came around, the fish had moved out of that area. This year we will have it about 4 weeks earlier.


I'd have to say for quality of fish, and ease of fishery, West Point Blackmouth with a hooch and a strip.
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#214420 - 10/10/03 06:02 PM Re: Your best spot and tackle?
Theking Offline
River Nutrients

Registered: 10/10/03
Posts: 4756
Loc: The right side of the line
Wooley,

I am with you. We used to use trout gear and Pautsgeze delux. We called it sneak fishing. We would see them sitting under a log or in a dark tail behind a rock. Crouch down and waddle to casting range. Watch them take the hook and ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzz giddy up! That was the late 60's when i was just a kid. I had my grandpas old bamboo ros. We wore redball jets and shorts to fish. No one had the $ for the fancy stuff people need today.
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#214421 - 10/10/03 07:05 PM Re: Your best spot and tackle?
ROCK Offline
Returning Adult

Registered: 08/14/03
Posts: 478
Loc: Between 2 Mountains
I would have to say area 11 alot of big kings this year . Also the derbys I won in area 11. Than a good coho season also .
Best tac would be green hot spot ,glo green hoochy. fishy fishy fishy
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#214422 - 10/10/03 07:47 PM Re: Your best spot and tackle?
MasterCaster Offline
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Registered: 05/09/03
Posts: 368
Loc: Florida
I'd have to say just about anywhere I have fished with my beautiful wife.
I dreamed my whole life of finding a lady that would really want to fish enough for me to give my bud's "da boot"...... Not that they aren't my bud's still, but I would rather fish with the woman of my dreams ANYDAY than the best river in the world with a male-friend....

MC wink
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#214423 - 10/10/03 10:36 PM Re: Your best spot and tackle?
Fishingjunky15 Offline
Spawner

Registered: 03/22/03
Posts: 860
Loc: Puyallup, WA
I'd have to say our first trip to Sekiu this past Summer with my dad and brother. I used to think that catching 30+ salmon in a day was a myth, I was wrong. The most fun was using a 1 1/2 oz. banana weight and a cutplugged herring on a light steely stick with 10 pound line. We would let the herring down just to the point where we could still see it. There's nothing like seeing a Coho bolt in at high speens to take your bait! thumbs
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#214424 - 10/11/03 11:36 AM Re: Your best spot and tackle?
Robyns77 Offline
Juvenille at Sea

Registered: 04/24/03
Posts: 110
Loc: Edmonds
Master Caster
I like fishing with my wife also but I would never mention giving my buds the boot.

I would say Rivers

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#214425 - 10/11/03 12:44 PM Re: Your best spot and tackle?
MasterCaster Offline
Returning Adult

Registered: 05/09/03
Posts: 368
Loc: Florida
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Originally posted by Robyns77:
Master Caster
I like fishing with my wife also but I would never mention giving my buds the boot.

I would say Rivers
Good point..... BUT...... My fishing bud's of yore were all of the mindset that I was an idiot for WANTING my lady to go fishing/hunting with me...... They could not understand and made comments like "fishing and hunting are for getting AWAY from the wife"...... So giving them da' boot was appropriate in my case.... Still friends, but they now have to do the "Faux Bachelor" thing without me! LOL

MC beer
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#214426 - 10/11/03 02:36 PM Re: Your best spot and tackle?
elkrun Offline
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Registered: 01/15/01
Posts: 759
Loc: Port Angeles, WA
Swiftsure bank, mid august. a cloudy day with no wind, maybe even a light rain. Run out until I find the birds... I dont mean a few birds, I mean an Alfred Hitchcock sized flock. Theres usually whales around the big mass of krill and baitfish then too... you can see them surfacing all day. Then I break out my 8 wt, tie on a chartreuse/white clouser (started using tube flies) and cast it with a 15 ft sink tip/intermediate running line. That time of year, those conditions, its catch fish until you're too tired to fight them anymore.

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#214427 - 10/11/03 02:52 PM Re: Your best spot and tackle?
Dan S. Offline
It all boils down to this - I'm right, everyone else is wrong, and anyone who disputes this is clearly a dumbfuck.

Registered: 03/07/99
Posts: 16958
Loc: SE Olympia, WA
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Heli fishing for steelhead on the North coast of British Columbia
Ohhhhhhh, yeah. If you got a whirlybird and a fishing rod........you got it all. thumbs
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#214428 - 10/11/03 03:03 PM Re: Your best spot and tackle?
Texas Fling Offline
Parr

Registered: 08/31/00
Posts: 59
Loc: Maple Valley, Wa. U.S.
I like the Elwha, on the Olyimpic Pennisula.
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#214429 - 10/12/03 01:10 AM Re: Your best spot and tackle?
Fishon grahn Offline
Smolt

Registered: 04/22/02
Posts: 88
Loc: arlington
any river with steelhead in it with bobber and jigs FISHON

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#214430 - 10/12/03 01:55 AM Re: Your best spot and tackle?
Chum Man Offline
River Nutrients

Registered: 11/07/99
Posts: 2685
Loc: Yelmish
i was too young to enjoy it firsthand(dad let me run around on the bank while he fished), but winter in the late 80s on the nisqually for steelhead

i'd use a lamiglas g1354-t, with either a abu 5500C or daiwa procaster, tossing eggs

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#214431 - 10/12/03 09:31 AM Re: Your best spot and tackle?
Jeff J Offline
Parr

Registered: 08/17/03
Posts: 59
Loc: Issaquah
Thanks everyone for the responses, Its nice to see the varied choices people have for fishing. Good luck to you all in the coming years. May your lures and baits be always wet, you mostly dry and fish box full!!!!

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