Just like the shane company motto- "You have a friend in the get skunkered business" :cheers:
Misery loves company eh? Ok. Well, it'll want to propose to me after this then.
I cant catch fish. I learn, I try, I mimic, I experiment, I bank, I boat, I ask, I do, I pray :bowdown: , I lead, I follow, you name it, I have tried it. I cant get into any salmon/steelhead fall or spring. I haven't caught a fish since October of 2001. At that time the limit on silvers was 4 p/d. I had 8 silvers on the tag in three trips and it was great even though I had always wanted to get into a chinook and or stealhead. I have never ever caught a steelhead or chinook. :shocked: Here is where I have tried in the last year and a half or so.
Columbia (at least a dozen times, probably more)
Williamette (twice, prawns/shrimp/eggs/herring/quick fish)
NF santiam (about 10 times, eggs/spinners/corkies/worms)
Astoria (3 times divers/flashers/herring (plug/whole) etc.etc.)
Tillamook (4 times cannon balling herring)
Clack (twice shrimp/eggs)
Trask (two or three times, bobber/spinners)
Rogue (3 times quickfish/spinners)
Nehalem (eggs/ spinners)
Nestucca (" ")
Big Creek (bobber/eggs/spinners)
Yaquina (spinners/herring)
Deschutes (three times eggs/spinners/worms/fly's)
All this....Idunno, maybe 600/800 water hours or so with not one fish.
Maybe two take downs. Only two of the trips listed were guided, one produced the silvers, the other and most recent trip,....zilch. I am at my breaking point I think. I'm positive while on the water and pretty optimistic all day, then at the end of the day I'm just cold, usually wet, and tired.

On the positive I guess, I have seen some beautiful country and met some good folks.
Has anybody in the world of fishing ever had a start as bad as this? Ever? :whazzup: My wife and daughter don't even ask when I walk in the door anymore after being gone all day. I'm starting to look at it as I've wasted 800 (or more, I don't even know) hours that I could have spent with them.
I don't seem to have a problem with sturgeon, crabs, clams, but my ultimate and main objectives are eluding me. I'm fit to be tied. Has there ever been a worse start?
So Misery, where shall we honeymoon?
I'll try the Umpqua down south over memorial day wknd. Who knows. The good Lord knows I'm due...