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It was mid summer, and the natives in Astoria were restless. Buoy 10 is just around the corner. One of the largest chinook runs on the Oregon Coast has been predicted. Fishermen's hearts thumped as they anticipated soon catching chinook at......................
skrimmy
10-21-2002, 01:27 PM
.........every port along the coast. Even the talk around Tillamook was about how large the fish were going to be, maybe even a dozen or so over 60#. It stirred the excitement of many crazed anglers who arranged for exta time off to chase a trophy. ...........
JeepMcMuddy
10-21-2002, 04:22 PM
...wife, but after repeated rejections they decided to go fishing! First stop, the coast! A quick stop at the tillamook Bait Company to say hi to Marie and to get some purple labels and some of her fresh cured prawns, and they we're off to....
Danderson
10-21-2002, 05:06 PM
The Nehalem River. For this has always been an early fishery and the begining of october was sure to bring the success that all had anticapated since January but to my dismay all I caught was a .........
Tilla
10-21-2002, 05:32 PM
crab pot line in my prop! After untangling the line while drifting towards the jetty standing on my platform we were back underway and ran upstream to a spot where we could fish the prawns on a slow troll when all of a sudden two jet skiers........
skrimmy
10-21-2002, 05:43 PM
.......hit a couple submerged rocks, tossing them both safely into the water but throughly trashing their obnoxious jet skis :grin: :grin: . After laughing hysterically for a moment, we noticed that the tips of both rods slammed down towards the water and the drags started singing. We had a double! The first one broke water long enough to see, Holly Sh.......t! I hollered, he's gotta be at least 40lbs and chrome bright! But the other fish was heading fast in the other direction and showed no signs of slowing.......
.........stopping. One went towards Jetty Fishery, and the other headed out toward the mouth. :shocked: The fish going inland made the reel sing like Whistlin' Dixie. The other fish, headed straight toward Jammin' Salmon' Guide Service boat graemlins/1zhelp.gif and then charged toward us. I yelled...............
Hogmaster
10-21-2002, 08:20 PM
"Cut the boat! Cut the boat!" It was after all, a Whaler. But that meant that...
skrimmy
10-21-2002, 08:29 PM
......when we cut the boat, it spooked the fish running towards us and unfortunately that hog, which we hadn't yet seen, ran the other way and was dragging the motorless half of the boat towards the jaws again, the reel's drag was beginning to smoke......
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Gobbaworms
10-21-2002, 08:33 PM
...worse than my uncles Chyrsler K car. I had to dunk the reel to put the fire out and clamp a thumb down hard before he spooled me. We looked liked one of tose jet skiers. But wait, the net is in the other half of the boat. Thinking quickly, we whipped out the...
Tilla
10-21-2002, 09:34 PM
....crab ring which was kept in the bow and is why the net was with the stern upstream with the other half of the boat. Holding the ring like a discus thrower we watched the monster spotty tail runs become slower and less frequent. Closer to the water the wave curls at the bar didn't seem so threatening. We sat quietly as the big nooker seem to list to starboard and poised with the crab ring we timed our movements like a Swiss timepiece so that when .......
Hogmaster
10-21-2002, 09:46 PM
.... we went to discus the catch we would be as one with the ocean. But our synchroniscity disintegrated like a house of cards when a huge Roosevelt Bull elk suddenly surfaced between us and our prize. He turned and...
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skein
10-21-2002, 10:01 PM
...headed out to sea, with the hog following him. Suddenly, spotty tail turned and headed directly at the boat, barely under the surface. Immediately we saw why. Seals! Four of 'em, homed in on him like sidewinder missiles, all of them, fish and seals headed at breakneck speed right for our boat. I threw the motor into reverse, and with one hand (thumb actually) controlling the reel....
wetaline
10-21-2002, 10:33 PM
......I decided it was time to take action! I rembered a super duper double dog secret i had learned on I ifish "the whippe"... w/ that one had I whipped the rod In several consecutive figure 8 motions, thus causing Hogito to fly from the water, tail dancing back and forth across the heads of the seals till they became dizzy and disoriented.........
fishchaser
10-21-2002, 10:44 PM
......the seals and myself all started to get wooossseyyy. I couldn't stop myself from turning blue and loosing my lunch. The spotted tail start running for the chum that I had just left him..........
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rhansme
10-21-2002, 10:56 PM
...upon finding the chum, the spotty tail gorged himself until he turned into a chum himself. He found himself becomming chummy with the seals after which................
skrimmy
10-22-2002, 05:03 AM
....after which I realized I had chummed because of whatever it is I had smoked earlier was causing me to halucinate, cause it just dawned on me- How could I have thrown the motor into reverse- it's on the other half of da boat. That Chum I just saw was hooked to Jammin Salmon's client's rod. Ha! The seals were chasing that, not the beast still precariously off in the distance, having not been seen yet by those seals. As we safely floated by Jammin Salmon's red sled, all of a sudden the hog we were battling decided to......
..........peel out line right next to the killer whale that surfaced. Has Keiko swam another 16,000 miles looking for his friends in Newport? As I gasped for breath........
Tilla
10-22-2002, 10:12 AM
......a sudden jerk in the opposite direction of my half craft made me realized that we had forgotten about the other part of our double which was on the other rod in the rod holder. It was steadily pulling us back upstream, this fish had some fight in him and as we passed Jammin Salmon's boat we tipped our hats as they.................
fishingfirst
10-22-2002, 11:44 AM
......sat eating bananas and wishing that they could go up to the cow pasture and get some of those mushrooms that these other guys were obviously enjoying, then all of a sudden........
Fishalot
10-22-2002, 05:38 PM
Go get Jennie, She will know what to do...
The Bad Fish
10-22-2002, 06:02 PM
..but jennie was out picking mushrooms and fly fishing for sea run cutts on the kilchis so we....
ampersat
10-22-2002, 06:54 PM
...ducked and dodged while the folks on the jammin salmon began throwing herring into the air over my half of a boat. a crowd of seagulls began to cloud the sky over me, alternately raining ugly down upon me and scooping up herring out of the air. one of the herring landed on my hat. a seagull divebombed my head and grabbed my hat. that's when i...
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Tilla
10-22-2002, 08:02 PM
....decided that I was glad I didn't take a bath this morning, what a waste of time that woulda been. Enough is a enough, we got two fish on, half a boat without the motor. a crab ring for a net, enough marinelife to choke Lloyd Bridges and the good news is that Mr Spotty tail II is taking upstream. Lo and behold one of the destroyed jetski carcasses comes by and we snag the darn thing, we cross a couple wires a Vvvrrroom the darn..........
Fishalot
10-22-2002, 09:24 PM
jet ski takes off full throttle, I hold on with all my might untill I can hold no more, as my hand slowly loses grip the jet ski continues up stream towards Jammin salmon boat.....
Hogmaster
10-22-2002, 09:31 PM
...Where the "real" Donny offers us his net, all the while shaking his head at our incredible plight. We take the net, and as we slip and slide on the true poop deck we go to dip for Spotty tail number 1 when...
rhansme
10-22-2002, 09:50 PM
....we realized we are using Hogmasters net that fell out of the boat and became road pizza. The bottom of the net was missing and the only thing it would work on was a # 4 flatfish. The motor started missing and the smill of gas filled the air...what to do?????
Hummingbird
10-23-2002, 12:15 AM
.....Mr. Fisherman comes in from the ocean at lightening speed ,shouting, "I'm Here" " I'm Here", "Your Lucky Charm is Here." "Let me store these 60 lb. Fatties and all these Albies and I'll ....
We yell to Donny on Jammin' Salmon Guide boat, and he yells back that he has a triple going, and can't help right now.
We turn to the next boat, and its Jennie and Bill. They are just releasing a nice chrome silver with a seal in its mouth with a pink and white K13. She yells back at us to..........................
ripper
10-23-2002, 01:38 PM
..wake up you knot head. I realize I have been asleep due to the complete lack of action and the strange substance ingested earlier that morning. I have in fact had a take-down but it was Donny affixed to the #4 flatfish not a real hog at all. Since the hooks have his mouth completely sealed shut and he is unable to speak, I decide....
Fishalot
10-23-2002, 02:51 PM
after up chucking for the third time I'm thinking that I must be sick and seeing things. Maybe that is not Jammin Salmons boat at all it now looks more like a Thor Built that Tilla has, so then I decided to.......
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....just go back home, and read ifish. With virtually no rain in October, fish are dark, except for the trickle of fish squeeking in on the tides. With no rain in the forcast for the near future, guides are now forced to.............
Miss B Haven
10-25-2002, 06:50 PM
go Tuna fishing! They checked the SST's, computed their fuel consumption, ordered extra fuel tanks, pulled up the Offshore Anglers web site. Makin' a list, checkin' it twice:
12 fish a trappin, 11 Zukers smokin' 10 reels a singin', 9 hand lines pullin', 8 deck hands huffin', 7 live anchovies, 6 coolers waitin', 5 bags of ice, 4 deck hands sleepin', 3 gaff hooks sharpened, 2 golden knives and a Yellow po in the rod holder!
They were ready and left the dock on October 25th at 2 am.......
Tilla
10-25-2002, 08:33 PM
......but....mis-read their GPS due to an errant seagull leave-behind on the screen which led them on a miraculous journey at that time of morning through their little slits for eyes which left them aground right in Nanooks favorite bobber hole on the Trask! :shocked: Luckily they arrived minutes before the Nookster showed up and after some quick thinking...............
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Fishalot
10-26-2002, 03:09 PM
the intruders boat and once again FISH ON was yelled out . The masked fishermen looked on in amazment as the monster nook.......
Fishalot
10-27-2002, 12:27 AM
they put on their Halloween masks so ****** would not reconize them. As ****** slowly motored twards then he stood up and said.....
........FISH ON! The fish screamed toward.......