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[Sling Blade]

What a wonderful place Ifish is. I confess, I have been lurking for the past year and find both the information and stories informative and entertaining. Since I am in the same business as Airborne, Diamondfish and a few others on this board, I have not had the time to do much fishing over the past two years.

Since my In-laws live in Dallesport, Wa., we spend a lot of time my off time up there. I love to fish above and below The Dalles dam. A little over two years ago we were up there almost every weekend. That spring we started out on the John Day and had a blast. We ran up as far as we could and then slow drifted back down fishing for catfish and bass. My son caught a large catfish and in his excitement of hooking the fish, he almost dumped me into the river. The head was almost as big a football and he was a blue sleight color. All of the other fish that day were Channel cats. The following weekend we fished below The Dalles dam. My father in-law asked what type of fishing we were going to do? I told him Bass. He only put his trout rod in the boat. After spending a couple of hours not catching any bass, I rigged up my big rod for sturgeon. He told me to go ahead and move the boat and out to the flats and we would fish for shakers. After a few minutes he had a bite and proceeded to do battle with a 58” sturgeon. He fought this fish for an hour and a half on a light weight trout rod with 8 Lbs line. He won and we took one home. The next morning we were on the water at the crack of dawn and we both tagged out with a double in the first 30 minutes.

I have been out maybe five times this year. Three of those days were spent with my youngest son fishing for silvers out of Charleston in July. He caught the only keepers. The other trips have been bottom fishing along the jetty’s out of Tillamook bay. O’Yea, went SCUBA diving once.

O.K. Airborne, I’m up. Now you gotta get Brady to post. Sorry for the long post.

TUNA????????

JW.

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Welcome to Ifish.

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[Pilar]

I saw your post on the other board and asked for a story, thanks. And hats off to you for your service to our country. All active duty guys and vets deserve our undying gratitude and respect.

TUNA! indeed. Here's a blast from the past. It's not too late .. you can just forget about TUNA!, walk away and it'll be OK. Just think of the guy who gives you your first TUNA! boat ride as your heroin dealer .... the first shot is free.


After waking up today at 5:00 AM and turning on the computer and find that it had blown 15-20 knots all night at Stonewall Banks Buoy, I cursed the wind gods and went down to have breakfast with the dejected tuna gang.

The consensus was that tuna are done for this year. Unless Popeye is serious about doing the roadtrip, longfin fishing is goners.

Eating Starkist from COSTCO instead of home canned tuna is a real downer. I had some new recipes for jalapeno smoked tuna and pesto-olive oil tuna ready to go. Dock bought tuna doesn't taste the same as when you know the exact time that the longfin was beating on the deck as it goes into the jar.

So Pilar, since you were one of the few tuna-holics to actually see a tuna, tuna-holics anonymous will have to hold the meeting in Pilar's boat. It is sacred ground. Pilar can regale us with the legend of Bill the missing rod and tell us of the great one that got away.

When is the first meeting???


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Originally posted by corrirod:
My name is Rod and I'm a tunaholic...

Join me in the Serenity Prayer:

God grant me the serenity to accept the fact I cannot go out for tuna again this year,
the courage to live another day without tuna,
and the wisdom to know they will come again.

12 Steps To Recovery

1. Put the poles down and slowly back away.

2. Stop hiding lures in various places in the house.

3. Never mistakenly call your spouse "Tuna" during love making.

4. As hard as it is to believe, not everyone enjoys tuna fishing.

5. Selling your car in order to buy more gas to go tuna fishing is not recommended.

6. There are other fish in the sea.

7. Leaving work daily to get home and accept packages from UPS/FedX is wrong.

8. No more telling your spouse the truck broke down while you were out fishing so you'll have to stay another day, or in extreme cases a week.

9. If extreme withdrawls have set in, for instance random "hook setting" while at work or home, or making the zzzzzzzzzzzz sound constantly, do not let the tuna-holic near any fishing articles like magazines, fishing gear, or boats as that will make matters worse.

10. Tuna fishing is not a replacement for eating.

11. Unlike AA, recovery should be made away from other tuna-holics. Gathering tuna-holics together will only create more problems.

12. It is not acceptable to miss your child's birth because you were out tuna fishing.(my wife told me that one)

Meeting adjourned.
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[Reel Head]

Nice, I like it. I think These simptoms carry over with a lot of different species.

Welcome abourd. I lurked for three years before I joined. Be careful, after joing here I sold all my toys so I could buy a ton of fishing stuff. This site has a way of feeding the addiction to chrome.

[FisherJack]

Welcome! Welcome! Welcome!