Marlin and Addicted Fishing

Is it just me or is that guy annoying as fuvk? Aside from just seeming like an all around dbag who is doing the exact same chit every other show and company has already done they total hypocrites. A while back when reopening fishing was being discussed amid covid they made an entire video devoted to social distancing where they enlisted other guides and members of their corny addicted to crew to preach about what we need to be doing on the river in order to be safe and keep the rivers open. Since then they have not followed any of their own words or advise. I know I don't have to watch it if I don't like it, but just wanted to see if anyone else finds them irritating as hell. Jordan seems 'aight.

They stole Addicted's name.. so they can [Bleeeeep!] right off.

Yup.

Yes...yes....they did. I wonder if'n they'll want their "FinFixx" now?
Common thieves are common.

i left their page long ago...

got tired of listening to them about not naming river names, then taking hundreds or even thousands of people down said river names on guided trips every year, and making videos about it like no one knows where they are...

typical elitist hypocritical bullsh!t...

that and their gear sucks ass....

They've come a long ways in their fishing abilities...

Keith

Thanks to having Cameron or another guide on each trip. I've never seen a fishing show with more episodes that produced no fish in my life. They almost make Glenn Hall tolerable.

Haha. I make sure to give them [Bleeeeep!] on most of their YouTube videos, but there's so much dickriding that I don't think anyone notices my comments.

Do they wear flat brims?

The flattest.

Protest by day..................Glow ball by night.

My brim sides just about touch. Nobody bends it better. Respect the art. Just sayin'.

After 40 to 50 years of ratty, bent, dirty, faded brims on worn out ratty, dirty, nasty hats, I stopped wearing baseball caps completely, not sure why.

Could be chicks diggin' the salt and pepper.

Don't know too much about Marlin but Cameron is a class act and great guy... He's one hell of a fisherman too!

What's there to not like about them?

Keith

Stolen names and flat hats
If that's not enough...


"typical elitist hypocritical bullsh!t...

that and their gear sucks ass...."

This.

Cam and popov are good dudes. Popov is a riot.

The KVD episodes had me cringing like a MFer when I saw where they stopped to make a shore lunch. Say it ain't so!

Yeah but that river's never been a secret, Christ I grew up on it and it had more fisherman when it had hatchery plants than it does now...

Keith

I know none of these people and I don't care too. I know and am friends with the original Addicted and that's worth more than a million of these people.

Somebody is actually named Marlin? Like...that's a real name and not a nickname?

who was the guy that stole the STIHL logo and switched it up to STLHD?

Can somebody please just answer my question?

Just fish weekdays.... No one fishes that creek with any experience anymore anyhow...

Keith

Great! Thank you.

I declare Douchebag on principle alone.

I've only met the guy a couple times, hell I didn't even know his name, he was kind enough to net a springer for us when bobber fishing a popular spot that was dead before we walked up...

He was twitching jigs....

Keith

He strikes me as the kind of dumbfuck who probably signs autographs when he's doing some unoriginal seminar on a tactic like bobber dogging that he just learned 4 days prior. His parents were both heroin addicts he says. You can see he has junky blood in him. They should throw old Nate Treat on the team.

I bought one of those STLHD hats just to be a dick.


Look I have no desire to watch those clowns high sticking every fish they hook,switching rod directions every 10 seconds just to make it look like you're an angler. I bet some of them are nice guys,but as a rod builder it makes me cringe every time they grab the rod 30 inches above the reel seat to pull sideways on their fish ,like a bunch of kooks.

They are total flat biller millenials. I find the show to be meh. Now n!ggaz on da river? Those guys are awesome!!

Lol. Deng bru.

This could get to 5 stars. There's a butthurt storm on the horizon. I can smell it.

I grew up fishing with Deshawn, spent a lot of time on the water with him. That dude put his time in and catches fish!

Keith

"What's up addicts?!" is enough to get me triggered for sure, Nick. Lol.

NODR is welcome to fish with me anytime. That would be a blast.

I'm holding back!

Keith

NODR are certainly OK by me. Watching their excitement and growth was genuine and fun to watch.

NODR guys are my kinda people,non pretentious,and funny. I like how he says "I don't really know what you call this sh!t" proceeds to demonstrate solid techniques lol.

Yeah never hold back here. Unless it's tears,which happens often. Evidently I'm flowing down a river of them

So you read it! Admit it was funny and charge straight [Bleeeeep!] forward.

Deshaun and Keevin are awesome.. Keevin was just in Alaska a week or so ago, posted a few pictures..

Me too brother. Maybe we should grab a paddle or start bailing or something? Or not and just enjoy the show? LMK your thoughts on how you'd like to proceed.

No tears here. Just think they're a bunch of Midwestern, YouTubing-bass fisherman at heart and was seeing if anyone shared the same sentiment. Dunghammer seems fully get it, lol.

If anyone is looking for a good show to watch, you should check out The Outsider. It's on HBO or you can pirate it. It's directed by Jason Bateman, the guy who stars in and directed Ozark. Trippy and original. Think some of you would like it.

Them dudes really catch a ton of fish.

When will they take off the training wheels and ditch the bobbers?

I'm telling ya.... Bobbers and steelhead is simply second best...

Funny part is in my entire life I've never caught a steelhead under a bobber.. Not one.

It's as close to being a bug chucker as one can be, and that's not me...

Keith

Who?

lol

Keith hates jigs and floats. Hates 'em.

I caught my first Steelhead under a jig and float on my 2nd cast ever fishing for Steelhead.

Who cares how who fishes how? Like really? Who gives a fvck and to teach his own. Ain't nobody special.

The difference is personality and motive. That's where the real pricks shine.

When I'd grab my jig rod and make a cast out of Keith's sled, he would get this look on his face like that look when you go to get the last cold beer in the fridge, and you find it's not there.

Like, WTF?!?

Dude, that was a fun fun day! I think I'm still stoned...

Yeah, something about just casting out and feeling nothing just troubles me lol...

I love the feel of the drift, the bite, etc....

The good old days, you know I took my daughter up and she managed to cast, feel the bite, hook, land this fish on her own Monday eve. She's reeled them in but now she's hooked...



Then had to take them back up to do it again! I picked up a 6' stick Ugly 8-14lb spinning rod and loaded it with 12 pound stren and she just rips on them! Sorry, Parker... She took your spot!



Keith

Good stuff!

Dude,I am right there with you. I love drift fishing more than any other method,well,swinging spoons in the right conditions is a close second. But there's nothing like tap ...tap... pause...wham!

I fish to enjoy myself so I don’t really give a [Bleeeeep!] how anybody else is fishing.
Drift, plug, float, spoon, fly.....It all good to me.
SF

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Same as well.. But if you use your spinning reel on top like a bait caster, get the fvck away from me...

There's also some fun and nostalgia for me when I see a bobber go down. Reminds me of catching trout and panfish as kid.

Lot's of sand for a TV show.

No sh!t lol.

Well, now you've done it - she's going to be after you all the time to go fish, and I bet when she asks, dad is just going to have to say "yes". lol

Some day, we'll have to go drag some guts around again. I was just thinking the other day about those hot days on the NFL and how much fun we had.

I wanna go.

It isn't the total product,just the fact that these guys supposedly are out to educate people,yet they don't know how to hold a fishing rod.

BTW Sol Duc when you taking me fishing?

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Yeah, we're going camping this weekend and she asked if we could take the fishing rods for steelhead... I picked up a 6 man raft and hardwood floor and have been taking them to some high mountain lakes slaying the rainbows, they love it... The only challenge is they want to kill everyone of them. We were up at a lake by Mt Adams a few weekends ago and no one was catching anything fishing bobbers set at 3-6ft but the fish were suspended about 25-35 feet down so we'd cast and slow troll the bait and were just hammering them..

I stared at that photo for about 5 minutes trying to remember what hole that was, everything has changed a ton in that section but we still smack some fish there..

Parker messaged and was hoping to get down but life with kids, it sure keeps ya busy!



Keith

I'm still waiting.......



I was just keeping the seat warm for her. It was never really my spot. It happens.

That was the money drift.

Every single freakin' time, every single freakin' drift.

Fish on.

Hell, I just hooked a fish there now by simply looking at that photo......

If I was scouting a new river and found a hole like that my waders would go from moist to soaked.

Yeah, that hole was the one for sure... It's changed quite a bit, it does have a similar look just the top end is a little more troughed so the fish keep moving when they get there, nothing holding them back. Even the UPS hole is different, it no longer delivers..

Keith

Back on topic. Addicted fishing 2.0.

Yeah - it's some pretty zesty water right off the end of that log.

Perfect for running a jig through.

Ahh Dan,what a waste of perfectly good drift water!

Which brand do you prefer?

C'mon now... It's one of those pieces of water that without question can't be fished by a boober as well as drifted. Just the variance in depth it's self restricts the boobers ability...

I remember back in the early 90's driving up and camping at the Dickey river, where the bridge was washed out. We had a few too many to drink the night before and had a 9am rise and breakfast, one of them all night parties... I was getting my waders on when this guy pulls up and asks which way we plan to fish, up or down. I responded with "what gear are you using?" and he said he was running some of his hand tied jigs and bobbers... I told him "don't sweat it, you can go first, you'll leave all to many fish behind"... He sort of puffed his chest and grumbled about a wager... After a few pecks at each other we settled on him and I fishing down river towards tidewater and him getting first water through all of it and the person who landed the most steelhead won $20 bucks. When the fishing was done the score was me and bait drifted 4 and him with his Jigs 1. Turns out it was John Koenig who I didn't know at the time... He had all the excuses in the world for every fish I hooked behind him. The funniest was these were fresh over-achievers that were roughly 4 miles from salt, like throwing meat in a lion's den.....

Keith

Some folks do a jig after they catch one.

Good story, and....that sounds exactly like John (figjam) Koenhead.

Upon review....I hope that referring to drift fishing in this thread does not mean side drifting... sacrilege!

Narly like bobber fishing.

Pick a rock ...any rock, stand on it and own it.

Drift Fishing. Not boondogging. I'm not a fan of fishing from boats so2 much,unless there is limited access. The Smith river in Northern California comes to mind. That's why on any given day during the peak run times and good conditions there will be 100 fkn drift boats on that river.

I like my solitude. I like feeling like I put in the work,found fish,presented my offering to them in a proper manner,and caught it all on my own. No boat operator to tell me to cast,what angle,blah blah blah.

I'm not one to bag on other techniques,I float fish from time to time when it would be more effective. But man,the grab is where it's at. I also don't net fish from the bank. That annoys me .

Oh an one of my pet peeves is when flat billers say "the fish were on 'the chew' today". Makes me want to commit murder.

Time and place for everything. One time walked into a hole in the late afternoon. A large group was packing up after spending most of the day there - without a bite. Tossed in a pink worm with a bobber and hooked on the first cast.
I was also walking out from the Sandy one day. A guy was standing near the hatchery creek. He told me that he watched two big summer runs come out of the creek and run behind a rock, but that they would not bite anything. He encouraged me to toss a jig behind it. I made one cast and hooked into a beast. I lost it at the bank but still felt pretty bad about it, so I just snipped my line above the bobber, tossed it to him, and continued on out. Another time I hooked 4 or 5 steelhead out a real shallow pocket. Probably hooked them all in less than 15 casts. I wouldn't have believed that they were there, and that there were that many, if it didn't happen The last one was pretty large, so I kept it as my second and pointed out the slot to two guys that had just floated down ( they saw me hook at least 2 and netted the last one). They were drift fishing while I had been using jigs. I hiked back to my car, did a few things, then while driving out I stopped and checked up on them. They were still drift fishing. No bites, but they did say they snagged and released one out of the slot.

I like to catch fish, so, I utilize the best tools I have available.

And you feel like drift fishing is inferior to your tools of boober fishing. Got it.

That long haired kid seems to know a bit more than a couple of those other doughballs. They fish beads and boobers.

Different places, times, flows, etc, all effect the best choice. If I had one choice, it would be a small cluster of eggs drift fished with alone. Second would probably be a sand shrimp tail. Next jigs, then corky, yarn, bead, spinners, spoons. I bank fish, so plugs and side drifting don't really apply, though there are times I have tried plugs or kind of side drifted by walking my gear down a long run. On day I walked into eagle creek on the Columbia. There were 200K between Bonneville and the Dalles, and I would not have been surprised to learn 50,000 were in the immediate area of the creek. There were 4 guys in a boat hooking up a fish every other cast. I, along with the other 3 guys there, tossed everything we had without a bite. The guys hooking everything would not talk to us, but despite their glares, I walked out as close to them as I could, and watched. They were tossing out bait, and then walking it back on the bottom. I drove to town, got some sand shrimp, started walking it back, and was getting multiple bites per cast. Most were pecking like smolt, so I missed most, bit it was still amazing. The other three guys on the bank were still there, and never did hook one. I had less then 30 minutes before dark, but still hooked quite a few and walked out with the biggest steelhead of my life (I broke one off that might have been bigger).
Never used that method again successfully, but that day and location, I believe it could have produced a 100 fish day. On a side note, my brother in law went back 2 days later and it was empty. I was seeing one roll every few seconds, he never saw one. Just the right place, right time, and the right method.

Disagree.

That's a great story. Sometimes certain methods just work for the conditions and you can rail on them. Last fall I was swinging spoons with a friend(who is the best steelheader I have ever seen bar none) and we landed 80 fish in 2 and a half days between us,adult salmon ,jacks,steelhead. I love the grab. It's why float fishing is my least favorite fishing method. That and I have the attention span of a gnat. My float always goes down when I am daydreaming. Edited: Pulling plugs can be a yawnfest when it's slow.

Just the lack of bait restricts ability then...

Ok I said it!

Keith

That's all you had to say, I agree....

Keith

Bait thug!

Marlin's a good dude you all are haters.