Love, Poutin' Bucket, Gigglin' Stam, and your 2007 Daily Winner of the Kasilof River Salmon Derby, the angler formerly known as NoFish. Oh yeah, me and Rainey too

Nice raincoat Stam. You wear orange well. I won't totally speak for Sol, but I can assure you Bob, he wishes he was there. Although, he did have a little fun on the island, but it just ain't the same as being up there.

Crikey... how the hell did that one get thru without any net marks?

EO Friday 1400-2400
EO Saturday 1100-2400
EO Sunday 1500-2400
EO Monday 0001-0700

.... leading into the regular 0700-1900 opener on Monday.

Good luck boys! And TRBO, I'm counting on you to have that W-30 handy for any net-mutilated kingers to add to the collection. Mine are starting to get a bit worn out.

BTW, I like the e-FISH-ency of getting everything re-deployed before snapping the glory shot!

Nice fish !!! Motley crew however.

Has Stam stopped giggling yet?
Nice fish Nofish!

That's some fish Nofish

Congrats

I believe I am there, in the hearts and minds of those that call me their friend. Thanks for the sentiment, bro. Richard and I talked about you this weekend. You're a good man, Ball.

Nice fish, Pat.

Have fun, guys, I'll see ya soon enough.

That is a sketchy looking crew...did everyone think you were filming a show where a bunch of bigmouth bubba bass fishermen from Alabama come up and stick it to some salmon?

Fish on...

Todd

P.S. Nice, fish, NoFish...time to change your moniker, eh?

Ah yes, the good ol' creek comes through again!

Super nice Ditch fish there, Pat!

How big was that fish? Mid to upper 40's?

That's at least 2 pizzas in a week! Someone will be eating well this week!

Ok, Stam and Jim, you're next!!!

Hey Bob, did the boys at least "Man Up" and use that silly bug rod? Oh wait, only the retarded would do that.

Clean fish with those broad shoulders that spell "fought like hell".
Looks like we aren't the only ones fishing in the July rain.Congrats on the catch and daily win.
Bill

Nice fish. I hope Bucket caught something to get that sour look off his face.

I like all the lucky hats in the picture. I see pride.

Nice fish,stam's bright orange rain coat has got to run out of batteries soon.Good luck,
STRIKE ZONE

If he had his BSU hat on he would be the one with the fish and so orange you could not stand it.

Stam looks BAKED :>)

Stam always looks baked...

Bucket looks lost... like a deer in the headlights.

Crikey, TRBO! Nearly 100K sox in the last 5 days counts, and they still haven't played the dreaded in-river EO card yet? OMFG! The threat of over-escapement is imminent!

Good for you guys, but frankly I'm amazed ADFG hasn't pulled the trigger yet.

I see they increased the dipping zone and increased the rod/reel limit to 6 a day and 12 in possession.

Well it was bound to happen sooner or later...




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Sounds like a 24/7 kind of deal for an indefinite period of time so ADFG does not "overescape" the Kasilof with sox. As of Wed 7-25, they already had 247K past the sonar. Upper end of BEG is 250K, and anything over 300K will be considered a management "failure"... imagine that.

Sorry TRBO! Hope you got some nice kings earlier this evening 'cause there sure won't be much for the rest of the season.

Sad, sad news. Once again ... we see no regard for king runs in this river by going to a 24 x 7 in-river netting scenario. That's actually good in a way, use it ... the meetings are this winter

Looks like another year of skewed "net-contaminated" data for the baseline stock assessment of late-run Kasilof kings.

They are collecting information that is so UN-representative of the unadulterated abundance, age-class composition, and run-timing of this stock. That's gonna be a lousy baseline from which to base all future management decisions.

Nice nookie Pat! Way to go! How did you get the name NOFISH?

better to looked baded thqan stupid...i.e. bucket

*if* you ever get the urge to fish for the bigguns, Bob is the go to guy, fun trip...kinda like chineese food, jsut when you theink this is it, they bring you more! Bucket and the angler formerly known as KNOFISH are A+..no doubt


sitting in anchorage...pretty much drunck at this point...skipped the buch co to hang out with my buddies and wrqapp up a grand adventure, fly out in the mornign with huyndreds of lbs. of fresh sockeye, silvers and kings. lake crik lodge and jeff woodward are stellar performars, life is good.

works sucks

stam

Dude, from your mighty fine spelling errors, you are fried, good old, I'm coming home drunk style. Get home, the fishing is good, and Cheryl wants you.......

You dumb ass drunk fishin' fool.

Looks as if Stam was suffering from fat finger syndrome.

Nah he's just a little slow now after being cuffed in the back of the head so many times by his guides! Welcome back fellas!

Well stam, did ya use the wogs or.............the training wheels up that way?

KK

Finally got a few of the pix off the camera of a day on on the Ditch:

Bucket and Rainey with a 30# class girl:



After playing offical football molester for a bit, Stam finally gets a big 'un:




Sorry, wrong pic ...




I'll dig up some more tomorrow ... thanks to the three of ya for some great grubfests and lots of laughs on the water. Hope ya woke up from your stupor Stam and made your flight

Nice fish, Stamus.

Now thats a nice fish! Looks like you guys had a great time.

Stupor Stam? Had to look at that twice, almost thought it said Super Man. Great fish!

Whoah, okay, so that is why we need Alaska. Nice fishy, and good posing. Looks like you were having a great time dude. Right on.

I represent that remark! Tell Cheryl I'm cleaned up ready and heading for Whidbey!

...and here's the rest of trip "Wish Ya Were Here Sol"

after part one in soldatna with Bob, Corey, Rowan and Rainy it was time to go see Jeff Woodward at lake creek lodge...longtime buddy of team Bucket and Nofish, even without fishing Jeff is a whole freestanding entertainment system, even though he looks like a q-tip running his boat up and down the river flat out good guy. period.



Jeff kicked us out and said "there should be a few around here"....there was.



...after bundling up on the kasilof it felt kinda nice to strip down a bit and roast in the sun while not just fishing, but doing some serious catching, made short work of the 1st limit and we were barely late for dinner.



Day two found NOFISH craving some quality time, does it look like he got it here? I get all relaxed just looking at this pic



but, the afternoon meant gettin' busy again as wave after wave of red hot fatties rolled up this seam, we watched a few go by...and we picked a few off.

this double..



...soon turned into a triple



it did get to the point where it seemed almost silly and we were turning loose fish left and right, this hen just seemed special after luggin' me down river a hunred yards, I *needed* to capture this shot.

"Got Bright"?



I guess I am just not the party animal the "the boys" are I couldn't get my head on the pillow soon enough each night...well, after bonding with silvers off of "the point" 'till 10:30 or so I was done, not jim and pat, it was party time after 11:00 and they made sure I didn't sleep too soundly when they came in.....but I got my revenge in the mornings slipping out at 5:00 or so after bangin' the screen door 4 or 5 times in pats ears....lesson: never sleep with your head 6 inches form the door.

back to the river, not all of them were released. I am kinda ..sorta, very anal about taking care of fish, bleed 'em all I say, we were on top of it all the way, processed all of our catch and left Jeffs crew to deal with other stuff 150lbs of prime sockeye and silver fillets vac-packed should be hitting my door in the next day or so, quality and quanity...nothing wrong with that



Jimbo doing "the chores"




We did leave a few for this guy, don't think he will starve this winter on account of us.



and that is it fishing and goofin' off.

life is good..

work sucks

stam

Nice pics Stamley. Ya done well.

I let Cheryl know you're coming up, and bringing her a rod too, or uh, I mean fishing rod for her to use.

That looks like an awesome trip. First the Situk and now this, yer killin me...Later


Jake

Great report Stam, doesn't look like it gets much better than that.

Awesome report Stam!

And Skeena country is next!

Love the tripple pick with the new Rainshadow XST Bling Bling.

A tripple gang-bang floss fest on corralled sockeye. Sporty.

Tell me about the tank top Bucket.

And you expect to be included next year with a comment like that!

It was hot out---see!

I'm fwd'ing that to Cheryl right now.
Doh.

I'll toss a few photo's out here. BTW that was a NICE beaver!

Nice reports guys
I'm fished out, need a vacation from the vacation!

Thanks! I just had it stuffed!

That one was actually for Aunty M, ...poor attempt at givin' doc a run for his money, first time I've taken my shirt off outside in two years and it winds up here, go figure.

I think the robe shot was about 5 minutes after the "drunck post"

D'oH!!!!

just kill me now.

stam

That is too friggin funny! Nice photos Bucket! That one of stam in the robe belongs right up there with Sparkey's porn photo....

Love the pics Stam, although I am glad robe was on.

Hard not to like that one Karry, thanks for putting a quality rod in the hands of regular old fishermen, nice to see a "non-corporate" mentality in the fishing world.

great rod.

stam

Stam sporting a farmer's tan.............a classic slice of Americana right there

Stam actually gives me hope. The dude has lived a pretty clean life and he looks pretty good. I'm a couple of years younger and I haven't lived as clean.
Wait a minute I look older than he does...we have a problem.