I got to go fishing

[steplift20]

Did you see the price of fresh fish lately? Whoa I gotta go.

[Giorgio]

Oh yeah, this is where I really miss my boat and really am pissed I can't fish any longer. All of you listen to me
GO CATCH SOME FISH and that's an ORDER
G

[oteps]

I was down at Indian River inlet this past weekend. There is a beached whale there. Maybe get a fillet or 2?
Everyone there was blaming it on the subsonic sonar crap they use to find bedrock when they put up windmills. Happened sunday, news said it died monday night but also said it was a mature 50 ft whale. My calibrated eye says 25 ft.

[Giorgio]

Could be, could be, check out the picture???

[scook]

Speaking of fishing, I know there’s not much talk about fresh water species here, but do any of you guys ever fish for Crappie?

A buddy here fishes just about everything that swims here and says they’re very sweet and good eating. We had a no bite Salmon day on the Willamette River (runs through western Oregon and through Portland before entering the Columbia) last week. Also made an attempt at Crappie, but didn’t find any schools and came up empty for the day.

We’re checking reports and planning to go again when conditions look right.

[phatdaddy]

Not a big fan of fresh water fishing, too many stumps & snakes. Crappie is very mild soft meat, i d rather eat bream.

Cajuns call them sac-o-lait, means bag of milk because the meat is so white.

I do like to fly fish in fresh water

[scook]

One thing we don’t have to worry about west of the mountains in the Pacific NW is snakes - that would definitely put me off.

I’m not much of a hand at fly casting, but enjoy trying. I’ve gone to British Columbia, Kamloops lakes area a few years with my fishing buddy, got some good practice in and had some epic days dragging leach patterns in smallish lakes. We use small inflatables with flipper or oar power and have hit one lake, two lines in the water and lots of time both going off, clear one, throw it back and it’s going off while cleaning the other. The eagles have learned to watch fishermen, and I had one stolen complete with the fly, about 3’ from me.

I do envy how many species you guys have in the east - with the diminished Salmon runs here, I’m working on targeting more species. Fishing’s nice, but catching is better.

[phatdaddy]

I m not very good at fly fishing,mostly sit on a kayak and roll cast. We use floating rubber bugs, look like water spiders.

[scook]

Had to laugh - the roll cast is definitely my friend. I think if I could get the timing into muscle memory, or loosen up and learn to feel the rod load on the back cast, I’d do a lot better. For me, I think it’s one of those automatic “try harder” things that makes it worse.

[oteps]

Im not good at fly fishing. Someone gave me an old bamboo fly rod. Maybe im afraid of breaking it.