foggy slopes of yester year

[Okiedrifter]

man am i ever missing oregon, life here is the pits. cant wait to get back there... am having a fit just thinking about it..i need a fix. would u good people tell me a story. tell me where u last fished, what u used, were they biting, whats going on, hows it look. nothing to trivial to list as far as im concerned. thanks.

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okiedrifter

[Osprey]

Oh man I guess Okie really applies here,anyway picture this I'm standing on a beautiful gravel beach watching the sun on the horizon with it's colors turning Mt. Rainer a beautiful pink and red,as I'm releasing a nice Sea run Cut about 3lbs that just took for the tour of the beach with my noodle rod,the smell of salt air, the sound of an Emu calling for it's Mate http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/shocked.gif take care Drifter... http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/wink.gif

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Row quietly and fish a Cataraft !!-------<'))>><

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[Okiedrifter]

drip,drip, snivel, drip....wow.

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okiedrifter

[Deleted User]

Oakiecomehoma! As you can tell by Os's post we have a lot of Loons up here these days. Ah, the "Cry of the Loon". Always hear that up in Canada and Alaska. Now we occassionally hear that cry around Olympia. - You probably read in other posts that the Nestucca is literally packed with summer steelhead right now, and that I am practicing my summer jigging techs. Well, those 2 finally came together yesterday in what I'd call a dream day! I fished alone in total solitude in the beautiful mid to upper sections of this great coastal river. Never saw another fishermen. I wound up hooking 12 summers and landing and releasing 8 of them on some custom 1/32 oz. low water jigs in mostly black with a little cherise or a little kelly green with some silver flash. Fished them in faster shallow water using a stealth float with a couple split shot right under it to keep it upright. Most of the action was early, but I did hook some of them later in shade covered holes on a gorgeous day in a coastal forest, listening to the soft soothing sound of the summer riffles carrying my float/jig to the waiting fish. Doesn't get much better than that. However, the key words in my story to you were a "dream day". You see, I only dreamed it. But it could easily be reality for you when you come back home, because the latest "scientific models" coming out of NW fishery experts is that the unexpectedly high runs of salmon and steelhead in Oregon and Washington this year are going to continue longer than the earlier predicted 2 years. Could be several years in fact! And I didn't dream that press release on a state fisheries website. See you on the river when you get home! - RT

[WaterDog]

Ok, how about when the wife and I were fishing near Tongue Point and I hooked an 8 foot sturgeon this last Saturday. Fought that beast for an hour and a half before he was boated and released. That was our first oversize ever. What a rush! Caught him on half a herring on a 5/0 hook mated to a tiger rod/320 combo and 65# tuf-line.

Man your missin' out, you gotta come back!

[Okiedrifter]

keepem coming, geez i wonder if monica and the kids would mind livig in a cardboard box under a bridge for awhile.

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okiedrifter

[smilesforu]

Spent Sunday at the beach with kids running in the shallow wave surges and screaming. Their folks would stick the dip net into the incoming wave and wait for it to go out. The kids would run out to help unload the catch. Sun screeen was a must unless you wanted the rock lobster look. A gentle breeze filled your senses with the smell of the sea. Smelt were flopping out of the top of the 5 gallon buckets or should I say falling out since they were full to the brim with the dancing silver.
Oh well theres always bass fishing right?
I forgot to tell you about all the caddis hatches that are in full swing every evening. The gentle suck of a trout taking a dry is exhilating.

See ya soon http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif


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Marty
Steelheader.net (http://www.steelheader.net/)

[Okiedrifter]

hey,smilesforu... is that smelt dipping ur talking about,,wanna learn about that

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okiedrifter

[smilesforu]

Yup.....its really simple. Put net in as wave hits and lift up after it goes out. Remove smelt. Cheap Nets run 18-30 bucks. The cheap nets work as good as the fancy ones. The hardest part is finding the smelt and getting hit by the waves. They were so thick on Sunday you could catch them in your bare hands http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif. Its a real blast on a sunny day http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif

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Marty
Steelheader.net (http://www.steelheader.net/)

[Big Willie]

Well Oakie, let's see here. Been landing rainbows and browns on the 'Chutes, can't keep'em off those little Rebel crawdad plugs off the front off my driftboat. Then there's Craine, Wickiup, and all those neat High Cascade lakes, doing fairly well for big browns up there as well. Of course the summers are in thick on the Coast, nothing beats fishing for steelhead in shorts. Summertime in Oregon is great! -Gary

[Bait O' Eggs]

Oakie
Once upon a time a young lad from Tillamook decided to do a little fishing. He loaded up his boat and headed out to the ocean for some salmon fishing. As he went thru the bay he dropped his crab pots, and since it was low tide he pulled over to the sandbar and dug his 20 cohog clams. He spent and additional 10 minutes pumping several dozen sandshrimp for fresh bait. He ran his sled out into the ocean a couple miles and started trolling a fresh plug cut herring. After about 2 minutes he had his first Coho on. The first 7 Coho to the boat were all native and he had to release them. Finally he hooked a Chinook and kept that. Then he finally caught a fin cliped Coho and was limited. On his way back in he stopped at the dinner reef and caught 5 Rock Cod, 3 yellow eye and a greenling then finally a 33 1/2 inch long Ling Cod. This completed his limit of Bottom Fish. Just before the Lingcod he caught a 50 inch Halibut in 20 phathom of water. It was early so he decided to swing over to the West Channel in the bay and drown some of those sandshrimp. It took about 12 minutes to tie into a 59 inch Sturgeon. On his way home he pulled his crab rings and had 12 large Dungenous crab. He was home in time for lunch. As he sat back drinking a cold beer eating his lunch his wife cleaned, filleted and vacuumn packed the fish. Tomorrow he thinks it will be a good day to fish several of the rivers on the coast. You would think he could meet God since he was in heaven.

I will let you know how it really goes for me on Thursday. The wifes role here might even be to much of a dream, for even me.

[Okiedrifter]

thanks guys, its helped.

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okiedrifter