#949018 - 01/27/16 08:55 PM
Re: Wynoochee....7400 Line, WDFW Purchase
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River Nutrients
Registered: 03/08/99
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Loc: Browns Point,Wa. USA
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Back in the day.....NO BAIT restrictions, no float/jigs.....plugging, spinners, and sand shrimp/eggs was the standard. Early put in, before 4 a.m., if we got to Carter Ck. and there was a couple of boat trailers, we just floated out...cast spinners and cast bait......those were the days!!!!
No cell phones, no internet, actual not many computers, not many people even fished summer run.....fewer drift boat for the whole summer, than I see in one weekend now. Xhit, 30+ years has flown by, so glad my career allowed me the summer off, fished lots, every day, day light until about 9. I was there and those were some glory days to be sure. http://youtu.be/6vQpW9XRiyMChange is unavoidable. Zip codes and age are irrelevant. Keep up or get run over. Celebrate that there is still fishing to be had.
Edited by JTD (01/27/16 08:55 PM)
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#949045 - 01/28/16 07:45 AM
Re: Wynoochee....7400 Line, WDFW Purchase
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My Area code makes me cooler than you
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Fishing the summer fish with a small sand shrimp and a noodle was fun stuff.
Got our first unpunched fish ticket there around 1980.
Good times.
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#949053 - 01/28/16 08:32 AM
Re: Wynoochee....7400 Line, WDFW Purchase
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Loc: East of Aberdeen, West of Mont...
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Fishing the summer fish with a small sand shrimp and a noodle was fun stuff.
Got our first unpunched fish ticket there around 1980.
Good times. Not many on here can say they fished the Wynoochee, for summer run, in that era.......Hell, many were not even "a smile in daddy's eyes", yet !!!!
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#949069 - 01/28/16 09:47 AM
Re: Wynoochee....7400 Line, WDFW Purchase
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My Area code makes me cooler than you
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Here's some interbred hillbillies fresh of the Wynoochee in the summer of +-80'. It and the Kalama were stuffed with summer fish back then.
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#949080 - 01/28/16 10:10 AM
Re: Wynoochee....7400 Line, WDFW Purchase
[Re: DrifterWA]
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My Area code makes me cooler than you
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Anyone ever fish in the annual Kalama Summer run light line tournament??
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#949087 - 01/28/16 11:02 AM
Re: Wynoochee....7400 Line, WDFW Purchase
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Spawner
Registered: 05/10/09
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Im Glad nobody fishes the upper nooch for summer runs anymore. There May not be many fish around like the old days. But it sure is a peaceful day on the water. And sometimes you get a fish or two to make the day special
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#949089 - 01/28/16 11:06 AM
Re: Wynoochee....7400 Line, WDFW Purchase
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.....some of those fish actually scared me. Pussy...
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#949093 - 01/28/16 11:49 AM
Re: Wynoochee....7400 Line, WDFW Purchase
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.....some of those fish actually scared me. Pussy... asshole... Taint
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#949100 - 01/28/16 12:40 PM
Re: Wynoochee....7400 Line, WDFW Purchase
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Dah Rivah Stinkah Pink Mastah
Registered: 08/23/06
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Loc: zipper
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.....some of those fish actually scared me. Pussy... asshole... Taint Track Palin
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#949105 - 01/28/16 12:46 PM
Re: Wynoochee....7400 Line, WDFW Purchase
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My Area code makes me cooler than you
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Who would put a delicatessen next door to a chit house?
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#949140 - 01/28/16 05:15 PM
Re: Wynoochee....7400 Line, WDFW Purchase
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River Nutrients
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Here's some interbred hillbillies fresh of the Wynoochee in the summer of +-80'. It and the Kalama were stuffed with summer fish back then. They caught a couple since this pic too. Particularly miss those mid-80's post-St.Helens eruption days on the Kalama. If I knew then what I know now.
Edited by Eric (01/28/16 05:17 PM)
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#949202 - 01/29/16 07:20 AM
Re: Wynoochee....7400 Line, WDFW Purchase
[Re: DrifterWA]
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My Area code makes me cooler than you
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I miss what are now the gene bank rivers as well.
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#949294 - 01/29/16 03:36 PM
Re: Wynoochee....7400 Line, WDFW Purchase
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Yep, it just keeps getting better and better. I'm starting to think Oregon or Idaho will be a better place to retire. This state's in a downward spiral I don't think it's going to recover from. Unfortunate.
Edited by Eric (01/29/16 03:37 PM)
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#949296 - 01/29/16 03:40 PM
Re: Wynoochee....7400 Line, WDFW Purchase
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Piper
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I'm hoping that Florida is still above water in 20 years... otherwise I'll be retiring in Georgia or Louisiana
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#949365 - 01/30/16 07:48 AM
Re: Wynoochee....7400 Line, WDFW Purchase
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Juvenile at Sea
Registered: 05/13/03
Posts: 229
Loc: Vashon/Grayland
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[img:left] http://www.fws.gov/wafwo/fisheries/Publications/FP069ch3-4.pdf[/img] In reality the summer Skamania stock was not introduced to the Chehalis basin until 1979 and averaged only around 700 adults through the mid 80's.(mainly the Wynoochee/Hump) I was living in Westport those years and had a lot of time off summers so I floated the river tons in the old blue canoe. If you were were lucky you may find 1 a day but lots of blanks especially later in the summer as flows dropped. The only time I ever saw another boat was one time a local farmer in a drift boat with 3 or 4 Hispanics swimming next to him. As I paddled by he claimed he was swimming his Mexicans, dog was sitting up in the bow.
Edited by Get Bent (01/30/16 08:05 AM)
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#949369 - 01/30/16 09:44 AM
Re: Wynoochee....7400 Line, WDFW Purchase
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Registered: 04/25/00
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Loc: East of Aberdeen, West of Mont...
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I remember well the Mt. St. Helens eruptions. On May 22, 1980, I was drinking coffee, waiting for it to get "lighter".....it never really did that day, walked outside and the air was full of ash and it was a light rain, of course EVERYTHING was covered with the ash.
2 things.....Wynoochee River was open for steelhead fishing, that year in May, and was for many years.
and the Wynoochee River had not only the summer steelhead but a run of SPRING CHINOOK. Dick Stone, WDFW, called the springers "dip in" and did his best to eliminate, that run......enough said about that.
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#949382 - 01/30/16 10:52 AM
Re: Wynoochee....7400 Line, WDFW Purchase
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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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When I was in 8th grade, we camped on Charlie Wincewicz's big gravel bar - just below the crossover bridge. This would have been 1981. My buddy and I caught several summer steelhead that weekend just bank fishing, with little skill being employed.
I also remember the day St. Helen's erupted - May 18th - it was a clear day, because we drove up to Capitol Forest and watched the monster ash cloud rise from the mountain. No ash fell that day, because the prevailing winds were going east, which is why it was dark in Spokane that whole day.
Life seemed a little better back then. Of course I didn't live along the Toutle, so maybe those folks see it differently.
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#949401 - 01/30/16 03:19 PM
Re: Wynoochee....7400 Line, WDFW Purchase
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Loc: East of Aberdeen, West of Mont...
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Charlie Wincewicz was a very nice person. He allowed me to drive "down the hill" to the gravel pit and fish that area. I met him, soon after I moved to Grays Harbor.....1968, fish his property for winter run steelhead and then in later years for summer run.
Just got to be to many people, so he closed it off.......grrrrrrrr
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"Worse day sport fishing, still better than the best day working"
"I thought growing older, would take longer"
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#949412 - 01/30/16 04:41 PM
Re: Wynoochee....7400 Line, WDFW Purchase
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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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One of the nicest guys I ever met. Every time I fished his bar, he'd climb on his tractor to come down, say "hi", and give me some tips.
He'd let me go down there until he passed away and his farm changed hands. The world lost a great man that day.
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She was standin' alone over by the juke box, like she'd something to sell. I said "baby, what's the goin' price?" She told me to go to hell.
Bon Scott - Shot Down in Flames
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#949565 - 02/01/16 08:32 AM
Re: Wynoochee....7400 Line, WDFW Purchase
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My Area code makes me cooler than you
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May 18th, 1980.
Camped at Mission Bar. Whaled on the springers the day before. That Sunday morning things were different. We were on our way to getting blanked when we saw the cloud with lightening shooting everywhere in it.
Ran down, loaded the boat, and got in the truck. Headed up by the Toledo airport. Took a zillion cool pictures with the trusty 35mm.
Headed home to find out we had no film in the camera. Good times.
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