www.ifish.net http://www.ifish.net/board/ Fishing The Coast, Oregon and Washington is the ultimate guide to all you need to know about the North Coast. River levels, charters, guides, deep sea fishing. en Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:33:36 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.ifish.net/board/images/ifish/misc/rss.jpg www.ifish.net http://www.ifish.net/board/ Vermillion Bay Oil Rig Explosion http://www.ifish.net/board/showthread.php?t=322070&goto=newpost Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:33:32 GMT CNN just reported an explosion on an Oil rig in the Gulf 80 miles south of Vermillion Bay. One person mission 12 of the 13 crew in the water. USCG... CNN just reported an explosion on an Oil rig in the Gulf 80 miles south of Vermillion Bay. One person mission 12 of the 13 crew in the water. USCG in route ]]> Life in General StickFish http://www.ifish.net/board/showthread.php?t=322070 Adding a Tach http://www.ifish.net/board/showthread.php?t=322069&goto=newpost Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:32:21 GMT I have 2010 60 hp 4-stroke EFI Mercury. I am looking to add a tach to my instrument cluster. I would assume the motor is pre-wired with a harness... I have 2010 60 hp 4-stroke EFI Mercury. I am looking to add a tach to my instrument cluster. I would assume the motor is pre-wired with a harness that I simply just have to plug into, but I have no idea where to start looking. Any help would be much appreciated.:pray: ]]> Boat and Motor Tech Anchor Management http://www.ifish.net/board/showthread.php?t=322069 New longbow - ready for action http://www.ifish.net/board/showthread.php?t=322068&goto=newpost Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:32:18 GMT Well I didn't think it would be ready in time from my solo walk into the woods for Elk this year. But it will be :meme:after I sew up the new leather handle on it this weekend.

So second season of archery hunting the traditional way I will now retire my first selfbow - as over the summer it has been graced by many different signatures from Northwest Boyers. Last weekend it even received the Tred Barta autograph with a new saying "Never Give Up". So that bow will become a nice weather 3D shooter and wall hanger. Which brings me back to my new baby.

I saw very cool 40's style bow on the wall up at Raptor Archery with static reflex tips and I loved the look of it. So carving away with another long snakey piece of osage I wittled my way down to what was looking like a nice bow. Then with the help of Ted after boiling the tips we bent the tips back about 35 deg. Put a string on her after she dried out and found it only pulled 32 pounds nice but not enough for Delk -deer or elk.

So out came some elk senue, combed it out: glued it up and layed it out over and over until it pulled 47lbs. Then with some help due to work contraints and a tuna event last weekend Ted helped me out with by putting some snake skins on her. Ummm came out better than I thought it would.

So for the last 2 days I have been steel wooling it and sealing it over and over and working the wood a bit by drawing it. Long story short this new bow will be making a nice 4 day solo trip in with me in search for my first elk. I also made my own arrows and fletched them with feathers from the turkey I got this year. Next year I will knap a few arrow heads as I just do not have the time to make it happen this season... oh well.

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Above is a link of the pictures almost finished when I get the handle on and some broadhead on the arrows I will add a couple of pictures to this link.

Good luck to everyone flinging sticks this year.

SS ]]> Ifish Hunting SecondSeason http://www.ifish.net/board/showthread.php?t=322068 2006 Yamaha 8HP 4S LS Manual-Start http://www.ifish.net/board/showthread.php?t=322067&goto=newpost Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:22:34 GMT This motor was purchased new (by me) in 2006 for $2,050 at Dewey's Marine in Anchorage, AK for use a kicker on a raft and now, in Oregon, my driftboat. It has approximatley 30 hours and I have all the original receipts for the purchase and three, yes three (3) expensive repairs totaling nearly $900. The motor has 15 minutes on it since the last carburator work (+/- $275) at the local authorized Yamaha dealer, Clemen's Marine.

The motor has had chronic problems in starting, running, and restarting. According to Clemens, ethanol is to blame. I have tried to run E-0 fuel when possible, run it dry every time, and use Sta-Bil and other similar additives and the most recent rebuild apparently lasted 10-15 minutes before stranding me on Timothy Lake this weekend. I will say it started later that day on the first pull, but then not again the next day. To add insult to injury, on the final pull the cord did not retract.

SO, there it sits. Come take it off my hands. It may sound crazy, but I can't take it any more. A completely new carb is $300. Maybe that's the solution for one of you with time and energy on your hands. Maybe its as simple as a small blockage in the jet that they have not discovered. Maybe its a lemon (yes, I talked to Yamaha) and you will be selling it yourself in 2011. I don't know.

Please PM me; let's not turn this into a Yamaha/ethanol/how-to-take-care-of-my-motor thread, been there. I could post a picture, but hey, its easy to find on line. No scratches, its blue/gray, says "Yamaha" on the side :) .

Since I must have a price, let's say $750. I'll consider reasonable offers or maybe a trade for a good old 1990 Mercury 5HP 2-stroke . Thanks ]]> Boats and Tackle For Sale moman http://www.ifish.net/board/showthread.php?t=322067 Any suggestions. http://www.ifish.net/board/showthread.php?t=322066&goto=newpost Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:18:27 GMT I have a 9.9 mercury factory XL 4 stroke. I took it off my sled to use on my drift boat. Obviously it is too long and i need a regular long shaft. I... I have a 9.9 mercury factory XL 4 stroke. I took it off my sled to use on my drift boat. Obviously it is too long and i need a regular long shaft. I have been told the OEM XL's dont have the 2 piece shaft so i can't take the 5" or so spacer out and install a regular long shaft drive shaft. I would like to keep this motor as it is rock solid reliable and i cant afford a new motor. Anyone ever tried this conversion or know anything contrary to what i have been told. ]]> Boat and Motor Tech #1 Okie http://www.ifish.net/board/showthread.php?t=322066 hunting mule deer with a broken leg http://www.ifish.net/board/showthread.php?t=322064&goto=newpost Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:07:51 GMT So after 4 years my brother & I drew a mule deer hunt in the unit we wanted.

PROBLEM: I was loading a riding mower up a trailer with a tailgate/ramp. It wheelied over on me breaking both bones in a spiral break near the left ankle:doh:.

I am supposed to be non-weight bearing & on crutches.

Any SERIOUS idea on how to hunt over there? I looked into a disabled permit for the year but the regs say that it must be a "permanent" disability...... ]]> Ifish Hunting PIR8 Hook http://www.ifish.net/board/showthread.php?t=322064 Last Hoorah http://www.ifish.net/board/showthread.php?t=322061&goto=newpost Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:53:06 GMT Made the last trip to Green Peter for the year with my good friend Tom and had a great time. We boated 23 Kokanee of which I lost 0 !!!!!! We... Made the last trip to Green Peter for the year with my good friend Tom and had a great time. We boated 23 Kokanee of which I lost 0 !!!!!! We launched at daylight and headed to the floating bathrooms as I figured there would be very few fish down towards the dam. We were not in my boat so the fish finder we had was the little buddy unit. We found small school up past the out house and I caught fish on just about every thing that I put out. the bite was steady, just not real fast. I used the larger sling blade in UV and the top producer was the copper king by Fishing with Gary. the fish have darkened up but the flesh was still red.

]]> Wet Fly http://www.ifish.net/board/showthread.php?t=322061 <![CDATA[2003 19' Boice Jet boat-$21,000]]> http://www.ifish.net/board/showthread.php?t=322060&goto=newpost Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:50:23 GMT 2003 19' Boice Jet boat
175 hp Mercury Sport Jet motor with only about 215 hours
2009 Yamaha T 8 four-stroke trolling motor with power tilt/start. Fluids have been recently changed
Remote steering for trolling motor, allows you to steer from anywhere in the boat
New Eagle fish finder/gps unit
New VHF radio/antenna
Columbia river anchor system with Miller Marine anchor nest
Full cover including side windows, and additional mooring cover for traveling and mooring
Factory fish box mounted in the bow
Four rod holders
Welded downrigger mounts
Walker electric downrigger- has the camera capability but camera not included.
Swim-step
Dual batteries on perko switch
Dual bilge pumps
Docking lights mounted in bow
Locking glove box
Walk-thru windshield with driver's side windshield wiper
King galvanized trailer with new spare tire, new tongue jack, and hydraulic brakes
fire extinguisher

This boat runs and handles great and is turn-key ready to fish or ski. The well-constructed aluminum hull has never struck a rock or other obstruction. There are some dings and scratches on the sides of the boat (dock rash). Title in hand.

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http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/2009_misc_215.jpg ]]> Boats and Tackle For Sale chinooklr http://www.ifish.net/board/showthread.php?t=322060 Tied But Not Broken Official Largemouth Size Record Still Stands http://www.ifish.net/board/showthread.php?t=322059&goto=newpost Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:50:13 GMT *Tied But Not Broken Official Largemouth Size Record Still Stands* *By Stan Fagerstrom Part 1* ... Tied But Not Broken
Official Largemouth Size Record Still Stands
By Stan Fagerstrom
Part 1


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This bass is among the largest I've ever put in the boat over a lifetime of bass fishing. Yet it would have to be more than twice as big as it is to match the size of the world record tying catch made last year in Japan.

The official world record for largemouth bass still stands. It took 77 years for somebody to finally tie it.

The International Game Fish Association has, after six months of investigation, confirmed that a bass caught in Japan is now officially in the record books as having weighed 22-pounds, 4-ounces. The angler who caught it was Manabu Kurita, of Aichi, Japan. His record-tying bigmouth was caught on a live bluegill Kurita fished in Japan’s Lake Biwa.

Original reports were that Kurita’s monstrous bass weighed 22-pounds, 5-ounces. It’s my understanding IGFA rules for fish less than 25-pounds have to beat an existing record by at least 2-ounces to be recognized as a new record. If it’s just one ounce over the existing weight it will be considered as a tie and will be credited as simply sharing the record weight. At any rate, that’s how things wound up. The long standing official record has now officially been tied---not broken.

Manabu Kurita used a live bluegill to take his record catch out of Japan's Lake Biwa.


As dedicated bass anglers know, there have been reports of bass of record size several times over the years. None of them stood up under close inspection. Few records for freshwater fish have held up longer than the one for largemouth bass. The original record dates way back to June, 1932.

Boating a record size bass might be meaningful in more ways than one. There are those who are convinced that if you do catch a largemouth bass of more than 22-pounds, 4-ounces it just might put a million bucks in your pocket. You’ve probably heard that kind of comment somewhere along the line. Perhaps if someone is fortunate enough to put a fat hawg like that in the boat, and then has sufficient smarts to play their promotional cards just right, maybe it could happen.

The story of how the 1932 largemouth record was established is an interesting one. An angler named George Perry caught that fish at Montgomery Lake, Georgia. As noted, it weighed 22 pounds, 4 ounces. That record had been threatened a few times but never “officially” topped.

Most thought that if the record was ever to be broken chances are it would happen at one or another of the lunker producing lakes in the San Diego area of California or perhaps on certain lakes in Mexico. Most weren’t aware that a couple of Japanese lakes also contain whopping big largemouth. They know now.

I put the word officially in quotes for a reason. If you’re butt deep in bass fishing, you’ll likely recall that an angler reportedly caught a monstrous fish a few years ago out of little Dixon Lake in Southern California. When this angler and his pals weighed that fish it came up as 25-pounds, 1-ounce on the digital scales they were using.

That fish never got into the record books, though there were those who maintained it should have. There were just as many who said it shouldn’t. The fish never was weighed on a certified scale and it had also been foul hooked. The fish was released back into the lake it came out of.

Reams have been written about the record bass caught by George Perry in 1932. I’ve never met anyone who knows more about the Perry story and his record setting largemouth than Bill Baab. Baab, now retired, was the outdoor editor of The Augusta Chronicle in Augusta, Georgia for 35 years.

Baab, as did I for more than three decades, usually attended the annual Bassmasters Classic. I had opportunity to visit with him on occasions while we were both there. He knew everything there was to know about how Perry caught his whopper.

Perry was a 20-year-old farmer during the Great Depression when he hooked his record fish. That massive hawg was 32½-inches in length and had a bulging belly the size of a basketball at 28½-inches.

There were different stories floating around for years as to the lure Perry used to catch his big fish. A taped interview a writer made with Perry himself finally surfaced in 1973. In it Perry said he caught the bass on a Creek Chub Fintail Shiner, an artificial bass lure that was new at the time.

That was contrary to what we had heard before. I don’t know how many times over the years I read that the fish was caught on a Creek Chub Wigglefish. My friend Bill Baab had a hand in eventually establishing what the lure actually was.

Do you know what Perry’s main concern was as he tried to put that overweight bass into his little homemade boat? It’s not what you think. Remember, his record was established during the Great Depression. Perry said he was more concerned about losing his lure than he was about catching a record fish. He only had one of those lures. He didn’t have the bucks to replace it.

During the Great Depression a poor farmer, and that’s what Perry was, often barely had the bucks to buy his beans let alone new bass baits. I know a little bit about that dismal period myself. I lived through it. I grew up on a farm in western North Dakota. I watched my mother and father, after 19 years of backbreaking labor, lose everything they had. My first hooks actually were bent safety pins. My folks couldn’t afford real fishhooks.

Once he had his huge fish in the boat, Perry took it to a general store in Helena, Georgia. It was measured and weighed on the store’s scales. Later it was also weighed and measured on certified scales at the Helena Post Office.

I expect the Great Depression also had much to do with what Perry did with that monstrous bass after its record size had been confirmed. It didn’t go to a taxidermist. Perry cleaned and ate it.

Perry is no longer around to talk about his record catch. He had eventually learned to fly and in 1974 he died when the plane he was flying crashed near Birmingham, Alabama. He was 61 years old at the time.

I had the good fortune to spend some time once with another man who also caught another of the largest largemouth ever put in a boat. I’ll tell you who that was and what he had to say about it in my next column. ]]> Stan Fagerstrom http://www.ifish.net/board/showthread.php?t=322059 tounge pt fish http://www.ifish.net/board/showthread.php?t=322054&goto=newpost Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:15:39 GMT any helpful hints on this area wa side ore side never fished much higher than the bridgewant to fish sat and sunday any tips ? thanks:pray: any helpful hints on this area wa side ore side never fished much higher than the bridgewant to fish sat and sunday any tips ? thanks:pray: ]]> Ifish Community raider1 http://www.ifish.net/board/showthread.php?t=322054 what is the best public dock to go do some crabing http://www.ifish.net/board/showthread.php?t=322052&goto=newpost Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:07:12 GMT i would like to take the kids out this weekend i would like to take the kids out this weekend ]]> The Salty Dogs JMURPHY http://www.ifish.net/board/showthread.php?t=322052 tounge pt area? anybody http://www.ifish.net/board/showthread.php?t=322051&goto=newpost Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:57:25 GMT have any hints were to fish that area never been that high should i use that boat ramp at jon day or east mooring any fishing tips would be nice... have any hints were to fish that area never been that high should i use that boat ramp at jon day or east mooring any fishing tips would be nice thank s:):) ]]> Ifish Community raider1 http://www.ifish.net/board/showthread.php?t=322051 NW fishing magazines? http://www.ifish.net/board/showthread.php?t=322050&goto=newpost Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:57:11 GMT Hi all. My brother in law recently moved from Hawaii to Seattle 2 months ago and then a month later he got deployed to Iraq. He fished 2-3 days a... Hi all. My brother in law recently moved from Hawaii to Seattle 2 months ago and then a month later he got deployed to Iraq. He fished 2-3 days a week in Hawaii and can not wait to get back to Wa and learn a whole new fishery. My question is...is there some local papers or magazines I can get him a subscription to? Thanks in advance for the replies! ]]> Ifish Community 1fishaholic http://www.ifish.net/board/showthread.php?t=322050 fish cam pic http://www.ifish.net/board/showthread.php?t=322049&goto=newpost Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:21:22 GMT Boy they are going thru now. Image: http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/megafish.png Boy they are going thru now.
]]> Ifish Community sliverslinger http://www.ifish.net/board/showthread.php?t=322049 Best Knot to Splice Mono to Dacron? http://www.ifish.net/board/showthread.php?t=322048&goto=newpost Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:38:08 GMT I have several rods that have dacron on them but would like to run a mono leader off the end of the dacron. What is the best knot to splice mono to... I have several rods that have dacron on them but would like to run a mono leader off the end of the dacron. What is the best knot to splice mono to dacron.

Thanks ]]> Ifish Community Redhawk-Driver http://www.ifish.net/board/showthread.php?t=322048