Chromer, Fry, Guide

[Centerpin]

Will I be a chromer for the rest of my life?

[Snagly]

What, on other boards you're a long-nosed sucker and now you're complaining that you're 'only' a chromer here?

This is one of the problems about Canadians -- they complain and complain (mostly about each other, but occasionally lashing out at the Yanks as well) but in their hearts they are just like the Brits, social climbers every last one of them.

We could petition RT to create a new label for people who have caught 1000+ steelhead over 15lbs (and had the bad manners to put a hundred pictures on their homepage). Maybe something along the lines of "Exalted *********" or "Lord of the Gumboots"?

PS On the plunking thread, I thought RT gave up a little early with ice plunking ideas. If you cut a long enough oblong hole you could back Hotshots down the run rather than sit around in your truck watching the ice freeze your line to the hole.

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[Centerpin]

Hey buddy. I am not the one grinning from ear to ear with each Alaskan chrome bar. I can't help it that our fish are missing a chromersome!


Hotshotting under the ice! You go out there and chop the hole. I will tune the plugs and rig the rods http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif


I am a 20" cutty on Marty's board http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif

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[Tanner]

Hey C.P.
After 1000 posts you are "Spawned Out". Then you start to look like R.T. After that the rest of the ifish gang cuts off your head and fertilizes a small stream with you.

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There's No Nookie Like Chinookie

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[Deleted User]

Yikes! And I'm approaching 2k http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/shocked.gif . Would that be 'Crab Bait' or what? Hey Jen, I think we should have more steps up the Ifish BB 'ladder'. I think Marty and Bob's boards have 4 or so steps? We have Fry (under 15 posts) and Chromer over that (except the Ifish Forum Guides that oversee a forum board). I wouldn't mind seeing about a 5 step ladder or so, if it's not difficult to do. Let's have some ideas. And Snagly, you can do better than that http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif. ... Hmmm .... Fry is OK, better than Egg I guess? Should we add Smolt, making it a step before reaching Chromer status? Then Trophy Angler (would take 100 posts and election by committee for knowledgable posting)? (Or Liar? Nah). I like the idea of more steps. Don't include negative labels such as mudcat or dogfish; or bass (jk). Bring on some suggestions. And at what intervals? 15 posts to become a Smolt? 50 to become a Chromer? 100 posts with many tech contributions to become a Trophy Angler? Feedback please. - RT



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[Centerpin]

How about Tyee or King? Assistant Guide or RT's baitcutter?

[Tanner]

RT,
What is negative about Bass? Smallmouth are pound for pound one of the hardest fighting fish that we have in Oregon.

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There's No Nookie Like Chinookie

[SLEDDER]

Small mouth are extra tasty if caught on the Willamette!

[Hoosier Daddy]

How many posts does it take to reach "spent male" status? That's what I'm shooting for.

SPAWN TILL YOU DIE!!!

[Centerpin]

Snagly and RT,

I put a new cover shot on my homepage from last January. It shows the ice on the river's edge. I had to jump off the ice shelf to grab this fish for my buddy. The little sissy couldn't grab the fish from the ice shelf so I had to plunge in 3' and fish him out black angus style.

Here is the link.
http://msnhomepages.talkcity.com/RallyRd/centerpin/index.html

[Deleted User]

More steps to the Ifish social ladder? How many? Twelve would make sense...

And *********? Them thar fish is called pikeminnows now. I call them $3.

[Salmonator]

CP, nice picture but is that a spawned out chromer? They must put alsea hatchery fish in there!! http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif

[Hookset]

Very nice pic CP, the snow really sets the mood. Now that's what I call ICE fishing!!

Salmonator, The only reason that fish resembles a Alsea hatchery strain is CP kneeling beside it, CP just makes this fish look smaller then usual. ;rolleyes: And I'm not going to mention anything about weight.

all in fun,

hook

[GutZ]

I read a story the other day, where WDFW or someone, captured a bunch of spawned native steelies, fattened em back up and turned them loose to spawn again. They were called "Kelts". I had never heard that one before. It might fit for those with over a thousand posts.

[Grant Scheele]

I thought that a Kelt was a spawned out Atlantic Salmon?

[Centerpin]

Kelt is what we call a spawned out steelhead. The are also called snake fish as they are all head like the one I am holding up. It is quite a funny looking buck. Maybe he was the only one who could swim up through the ice obstacles.

[Hoosier Daddy]

Kelt is accepted both as a term for spawned out Atlantics and for Steelhead. Some even use it for Pacific Salmon, but I think its hooey. To me the correct term is 'carcass' or plural 'carci' .

[smilesforu]

There might be a hack out for the Bulletin board that allows more steps in the food chain. The standard is only 4 (admin,forum,full member, beginning poster).
It would suck to corrupt a good board by not doing your hack correctly, as they can be tricky.
We call them spawners, boots or downstream fish. I also call it funny when somebody actually keeps one to eat....ewww.
Tight Lines

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

[Snagly]

I spend a day going on pre-Christmas ****-up with the boys here in Singapore, and return to the Board only to find a regular correspondence has broken out, complete with a Santa Claus picture on Centerpin's website.

I'm not certain what to make of all this except to concur that it sucks having a wimpy fishing partner who can't land fish properly. (BTW I have excellent fish tackling credentials, having sacrificed my body to the cold depths several times to make certain big kings hit the beach. One such instance was captured on video tape and it definitely is a Lodge highlight where I fish in Alaska.) So shame on you, Billy Meyers -- get your butt in the water next time! (Brrrrrr.)

Hey, Jay -- what is that lump in your gloves in the snow snap? Waterproof handwarmers? Hmm. I'm going to start a thread on that topic -- I'm tired of freezing my digits off in the early A.M.

[Deleted User]

CP, I noticed the 2 pics below your 'fish n ice' pic, where you ask for guesses on which rivers they were. I'll give it a shot for the heck of it. You said the pics were just taken the other day yet the middle one has no snow or ice and the other 2 do. If it was also taken about the same time it seems it would have to be closer to the influence of less cold marine air toward Prince Rupert. It kind of looks like a mini Skeena, and I don't figure you'd drive very far this time of year to fish, or I'd guess the Getnadoich R.(sp?); so I will guess a north facing (for sun snow-melt) narrows on the Kalum River. The lower one looks like a mini version of the "Grand Canyon" of the Stikine River, too far up 37 for you to drive, besides it looks too small. So I'll guess it's another narrows, this time on the Copper River. ... So, how far did I miss by? http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif - RT

[Centerpin]

Both pictures are stack holes. One is the recently closed section of Gold River that Dave Vedder writes about. The other is the Stamp Falls pool which can be notoriously good during high water. Both are on Vancouver Island which teaches you not to believe everything you read. I hope to hit both spots next week over the Christmas holidays. Guys on our bulletin boards (www.sportfishingbc.com and www.anglingbc.com) (http://www.anglingbc.com)) really have no clue about fishing or the rivers in their area. They spend more time reading books about fishing than actually getting out there experiencing it first hand then drawing their own conclusions. I have to admit that I have never read a book about fishing until this year. The first was a book sent to me from a guy in Oregon about Sturgeon Fishing in your great states. I also read the Skeena River Journal by Rob Brown which I enjoyed more for the history of our area and the descriptions of the local characters in my area. Up until then the only books I ever read about fish were fish physiology, biology, life histories, hatchery management etc. That was years ago and I can remember just enough to BS most of the guys some of the time http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif