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Originally Posted by scook
Ah, NAPA Idaho - I misread that as Indiana. Nice to have another west coast guy here. I’m just moving my boat paperwork and when I put it back on the shelves, I’ll look for the info on that top guy.
Hopefully next year will be a lot better fishing. I think there was only about a week on the Columbia when a few fish were caught this season. I was too busy to go at all but my usual fishing buddy (who usually kills them) caught one and his other partner caught two or three. My son-in-law, who’s a maniac fisherman only caught a few on the Columbia as well.
My V is an I/O, so I don’t know much about outboards but one caution - I fished a little with a guy from Camas in his outboard V and he had a horror story. He let a relative drive the boat picking up the anchor, using an anchor lift and he didn’t steer off to the side far enough and got the anchor line in the prop. The current was pretty strong and when the line came taught wrapped around the prop, with the low transom, it started swamping the boat in a hurry. He dove in and cut the line, lost the anchor but saved his boat -he drives the boat when he’s pulling the anchor now and keeps a sharp serrated knife at the stern where he can grab it too.
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We had something similar happen on the Columbia fishing for shad on my buddy's boat. He had just bought a Bolton 21 with an offshore bracket and his anchor wouldn't hold the boat; got the rope wrapped around the prop as we're dragging the anchor and floating into a bunch of other boats....fortunately we were able to lift the outboard and get untangled while everybody scrambled to get out of our way. Lesson learned- bigger CR anchor that afternoon. We fished Astoria for 3 days, 3 guys, 3 fish- not a good year for salmon. Hoping to go to Troy soon for Steelies on the Grande Ronde.
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