Celebrity Coastal Chrome & Carcasses! (PICS)

[Ty]

I met up with the imfamous Philomath Tony Davis founder and owner of Kodiak Custom Tackle to drown our sorrows in search of rising water steelhead yesterday on the coast.

My first fish was caught on shrimp and float and as we where staging the picture and handling the small bright hen, she escaped a photo before being released.

Here is tony's first, a nice rerun.


Close up of Tony's first.


Here is Tony's second fish, she didn't fight real hard, boy is she bright! Ok, well maybe we just found here and didn't catch her. This is roughly a 34" spawned out hen that had no taggs or marks other than the adipose clip.
So, for all of u that wonder if hatchery fish spawn in the wild, here is a good example of what we don't want to happen.

[ 01-24-2004, 08:40 AM: Message edited by: Ty ]

[redfish89]

Nice fish. I have seen several hatchery steelhead spawn with so called wild ones. Ty, Thanks for the post.

[SPAZZ]

NICE FISH.

[SKP]

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[Ty]

Any one out there Know Tony?

[ 01-26-2004, 02:15 PM: Message edited by: Ty ]

[Mikeymoto]

Never fished with Tonys spinners. His pal Chad brought some in to work a few years ago, but thats the last I've seen of them. Where are they for sale?
MM

[Twitchs_Tackle]

Ty,
Did that first fish of Tony's have an opercle punch too? I caught two yesterday that had it. Hatchery guys say they're doing it to see how many of the broodstock return next year. Nice fish..Except for that hen [img]graemlins/eek13.gif[/img] :grin:

[Twitchs_Tackle]

Ty,
They told me it will look like a small dimple, kinda like a bad pimple scar. One of the bucks that I released was about 31", man if he comes back next year he's gonna give someone a good tussle. :grin:

[Ty]

Mikemoto,

Tony's spinners are fer sale in Burnt Woods store and Alsea store. If that is not convienent, PM me and I will get u in contact w/ him.

Twitchs,
Yeah that buck had and opercule punch and floy tag, that is the third that I have seen like that. Hopefully that opercule hoel will be visiable after rehealing up so they can tell next year?

[Ty]

Thanks Twitchs,

Hopefully those marks are visiable. I would love to see the return rates. I think return rates to the hatchery vrs return rates to natal and other rivers are very different. I would bet that the survival rates we are seeing right now are even higher than reported!

[SHOUGALNITE]

[CohoClint]

Nice fish

[fishinmachine]

Any one out there Know Tony?

Heck Yes! I haven't been able to fish with him but we made a few pints of grog disappear at the old meetin hole. Fished with donnie boy and jeffy boy (slamstrom) a time or two. Keep up the great posts Ty, and smack famous davis for robby boy!

[JustCallMeDave]

A little slow on the trigger there, fm. This thread is almost four years old.

[Ty]

[Ty]

[SouthSantiamSlayer]

Ty,
All I see of your winter steel pics are red X's..
Is it just me??

[Ty]

[fishinmachine]

Tony showed me the "World record...or not?" video while he was laid up with the busted tendon. We watched it in the Corvallis nursing home with donny boy while he was recovering from his bump on the head.

A little slow on the trigger there, fm. This thread is almost four years old.

Yeah I see that, I tend to be that way sometimes!

[AlseaAssassin]

Ncie fishies!