Thanks for the invite

[meyersbilly]

Steve H: Thanks for the invite (re: SFBC). I have been reading posts on this board for several months, but have always felt intimidated by superior american angler skill. As a neophyte to the cyber world I will hopefully become more comfortable with posting on this site and turning my computer on for that matter. If anyone wishes to chat about the Terrace area they can drop me a line (meyersbilly@hotmail.com).

ps. backbouncing?

[Deleted User]

Hi MB (are those initials OK?). I don't blame ya for being intimidated by our awesome American angling skills http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif . We have had to work much harder all these years to catch fish than you guys and it has led to some of us superhuman fishers http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif Well, a little exagerated there. - Hey, invite your buddies on here. We love sharing different area techs with fishermen. You "floats" up there got into that earlier than we did, so that's one example of how we can learn from each other. - Backbouncing. Ya, we do that too when walking slippery rocks. Put extra padding in the backside of your waders. http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif Hey, backbouncing is one of my fishing forte's. I will be back with some tech, either here or a separate post, later when I have enough time to do it right. Welcome to Ifish MB. - RT - BTW, do you or CP now of a guy they called the "Vacuum Cleaner" that fishes your region. We ran into him on a zipperlip area quite a bit north of Terrace in early Sept. a few weeks ago, and he does clean out some fishing holes alright. We did too though, but put most of them back unharmed.

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[meyersbilly]

Vacuum Cleaner (self proclaimed?) Possibly. There are a few characters up here that go by various pseudonyms ie. big show, reel peel, hair bag 1,2,3, top dog, top rod... if you know what I'm saying. Heck in Terrace, most people never go by their real names. Could have something to do with the law or government.

Tillamook Fall Chinook. Awesome! CP just dropped it off. I'm impressed and waiting for early april (start of the big boys). Awesome pics and fresh fish. I'm drooling for another banner year.

I'd love to learn some backbouncing techs. The only guy to ever out fish me was a yank with some silly short rod and an undersized reel (backbouncing of course).

Looking forward to you next article.

BM

[smilesforu]

BM
I am sure the yank just had a lucky day... eh? Those short sticks should be left in the garage. To bad those centerpins cost both legs and work like a fly reel or more yanks would give them a go. Can we blame you for the pink worm? http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif You do have better floats than we do, so I always grab some when I visit your tackle stores. http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif And your beer is not to bad Labatts eh http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Centerpin]

MB lives two doors down at the Steelhead Villa here in Terrace. He was out working the dirty water for big fish with the big show. I was up the other fork working the clear water for the little rats.

RT,

MB works the left side of the boat and I work the right.

[meyersbilly]

Smilesforu: Washington Boy eh! I spent a few summers traveling back and forth from Mount Baker to Eastern Washington hauling big bales. How are the Washington Rivers doing? I assume they are having the same problems as our Vancouver Island streams No? Has the decline resulted in serious closures or restrictions on angling methods?

Soon in BC, we'll all be scotch drinking fly-fishers. Oh well! pink worms and roe bags cast beautifully on a spey rod (oops). I hope washington scotch is more potent than washington beer. I could never understand that 4% thing.

[smilesforu]

Yupper they are slowly turning us all into fly flippers with every year that passes. I want to fish the most ineffective method possible.....NOT, but I know how. I got a long rod to go with a stack of med and shorties. We still have some good fishing if you know where and how to get it done. My blood doesn't start boiling until the nates start running (Christmas- Easter). The brats are only able to keep my mind occupied for a couple trips. I am out on the Olympic Peninsula and can see the lights of Victoria from my window.
You actually drink scotch....Blech. I can choke any beer down if the first couple are cold enough http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif....have to unless its Canadian or hidden with a lime. It is raining big time the last couple days so we are going to be full of brats when she drops back in. BTW we get large boots with sea lice so they aren't all bad http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif
I think we can stop doing the rain dance Now!!

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

[Deleted User]

CP/BM, you don't mean a political boat with with partison left/right rod holders do ya? I don't even know if you have a party system up there? ... Speaking of beer .. Reminds me of a couple short B.C. stories: In our young 20's, friend Keith and I went up to Vancouver's Gas Town and wound up sweet talkin, by 'univeral' sign language, with a couple good looking French speaking girls who adventured across the continent from Quebec city one summer. After getting pretty 'spirited' in the pub, friends decided to let friends drink and drive (only back then http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/wink.gif ), sightseeing that cool city. I went into a store and bought a couple bottles of 20-20 Yukon Jack (makes any 8% malt sweet by comparison!). Somehow we wound up sitting on a grassy hill in Stanley Park looking back at the city lights and drinking the Jack. As the four of us sat there drinking my buddie's stomach couldn't handle the Jack any longer. No, he didn't hurl. His relief came via the other side right as he was trying to plant a kiss after some funny sign language. The girls groaned and moved about 50 ft. away, while I was RDTHLMAO (rolling down the hill laughing my @$$ off). I collected myself and went over and tried to explain in my best combo of French and 'universal' sign language that not all Yanks smell that way! Really a romantic moment http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif ..... Post too long; I'll put the shorter story and some backbounce tips in a follow reply post below.

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Know Beer or No Beer! - RT

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[Deleted User]

OK, where were we? Backbouncing tips. ... Oh ya, the other short story. On that same trip up there for a few days we were told that their was a great nude beach out the Pen near the University of British Columbia. They weren't lying!!! Better than the hottest beaches on the French Riviera or the sands of Rio DeJanero! I have only seen those other 2 on cable TV tours, but this beach was "Beautiful British Columbia - our Other Natural Scenery"! This was a no clothes beach. We left our wallets in the car and all our clothes in the nearby sand. I brought a frisbee http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif . To make a long story short, both figuratively and literally, we had some real truth frisbee fun! We kept throwing and chasing the frisbee closer and closer to a small group of pretty girls, so we could run close by to impress them ... with our throwing ability of course (I know what you're thinking, and some of you have naughty minds http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/mad.gif ... it was for the throwing I tell ya http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/wink.gif ). Well the next event I figure was Keith getting even for the other evenings 'special moment' and my laughing and finger pointing. He threw a hard driving frisbee out into the surf for me to go after. I didn't want those girls thinking I was a surf wussie so out I went; above my waste for a few moments in order to retrieve the darn thing. Well ... do you rememeber the "Seinfeld" TV episode in which Jerry's short bald friend, George, came out of a cold shower naked and his date came into the room and looked down and started to laugh? He ran down the hall yelling at her that "it shrinks when it gets cold!" ... The saltwater of B.C. is colder than Oregon's (nuff said!). After a few moments of holding back screaming about the stinging cold waste down in that surf; you know, so the girls wouldn't think I was a wussie; I walked out of that surf with a new nickname, "Shorty". What can you do in a situation like that?!? I couldn't just walk backwards by the group of girls. So I just walked right by them proudly sprouting a 'turtle neck', knowing I would never see them again http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif . ... Anyway, backbouncing tips. Post too long. See reply below.

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No Shorts No Wading! - RT

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[smilesforu]

Dam Rt thats just Bad(family board)...but funny.

[Deleted User]

BM, click on the 'Search' feature and use keyword 'Backbouncing'. I have an extensive post on it, either back quite a ways on the new BB here or the old DB. I'll try to find it and copy paste it here, but PC/Internet tech isn't my forte' so you might have better luck finding it than me. If we can't come up with it, I will post some tips here tomorrow. - RT

[Deleted User]

Hey Martysmiles, it's only bad if you have a nasty mind. Shame on you. Afterall, the same subject was on national network TV (Seinfeld) at 9:00 pm! Just a natural .... ah, ... thing. That's all. http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif

[Centerpin]

I think the same girls are still going there 20 years later. Not quite as firm as you remembered them. I guess you could say they went from chromer to kelt.

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Oouch! I don't think so; I think I'll just stay dry. Or have a dog to chase down coldwater frisbees. http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif Hey CP, kelts LOL; does that make us big ol' boots? http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/wink.gif

[meyersbilly]

RT: Way too funny. I had a long-winded reply to your above posts till my wife walked in the room and went a little crazy. I guess she never knew all the stories. Anyway good reading. Lower BC can be a blast and I wouldn't trade those trips down south (Vancouver) for anything. How I'm still alive I'll never know. Possibly one of the reasons I now live in Terrace.

Marty: Lights across the water. I know the ones. Some of the local ladies from Victoria use to take me down to Dallas Rd to look at those light and watch the submarine races. I never saw any submarines, no matter how much those young ladies tried to convince me they'd soon show up.

I feel sorry for you brother. Population of 200k and a sewage system suitable for 30k (Victoria). Marty you really got the muddy end of the stick.

[smilesforu]

No wonder it smells at low tide http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

I still look for the Canadian subs but never see any either. Can't give up yet though http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif I enjoy looking from your side of the straits also http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[smilesforu]

Rt sounds like you can redeam yourself with the Kelts. But due to cold conditions you might want to try some mentalatum deep heating rub for your turtleneck. http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Tight Lines

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