Nice fish all round guys. Went out on Sunday for a couple hours to scout around on the Dungeness near Sequim WA. Not any silvers showing yet, but I released a few trout. The rain finally showed up here, so I expect it to get hot n heavy soon. Carrera 3.5 all I can say a damn! The biggest I've caught was about 30lbs and it was out of season so I had to release it.

I'll post pictures of my wife and her trophy rainbow this evening.

Tight Lines,
Micah

Here's the wife's trophy. She's a real trooper, baits her own hooks, cleans her own catch. There's a reason why I married her. Did I mention the huge tits?

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1161049423.jpg

And my sailfish from our honeymoon in Cabo this summer

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1161049735.jpg

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1161051929.jpg http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1161052147.jpg
:D

The scary thing is that I've caught bigger Chinook. Best is a 44 lb. in 2002. Your wife has a nice rainbow there, can't tell with the breasts though...:)

My wife will bait her own hook as well, but won't clean the fish...:(

Here's my wife with a 37 lb. Chinook this past summer up in the Charlottes:

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1161056606.jpg

We catch 60-70 Coho's a day in the 8-13 lb. range, but they are such a nusance when targeting Chinooks that we can't get the bait down through them to get to the big hogs so we usually end up having to use a large plug or spoon so the Coho's leave us alone...:)

Ralph

I certainly hope that there will be a boat in my future that will allow me to do more ocean fishing. As it stands now, I am stuck as a bankie. I'm sure that there will be a boat, but it just isn't in the cards right now.

Incredible fish all 'round though.

Ralph-
I didn't see any downriggers in the photos. Are you using them to get to depth? Here in the Puget Sound it's pretty much a requirement. A couple times a year my father-in-law takes his pleasure boat out (read NOT equipped for fishing) and I generally do pretty well jigging Point Wilson Darts and mooching for silvers. Most of the Chinook runs in the Puget Sound are protected because of poor management for years. The commercial fisherman devastated the stock and it's a long road back.

Coho are the best thing going out here unless you head way out on the coast toward the Hoh, Bogachiel, or Quinault.

Trying to get out Wednesday... I hope to be posting pictures again.

Tight Lines,
Micah

Video of diver and numerous large fish
http://www.veoh.com/videoDetails.html?v=e56501SGTEnb9Y

I knew SHE was a keeper when she was willing to snuggle up to a CARP!
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Snake River, Wyoming

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Nice fish and nice catch with the wife! I dated a couple of high maintenance girls, and they were just not any fun to have around. What do you mean you won't camp if there isn't a shower?

Same for the rest of you guys with wives that fish too. I think about it every so often and make a point of telling her how much I appreciate her. Of course I have only been married for a couple months, so maybe we are still just newlyweds....

Micah

I love large mouths....I like the fish too.

To catch a fish like that, you need to use a very large worm :eek:

Aurel

Micah,

Yes, we use Scotty electric downriggers, they are on each side of the boat out of sight...you have to use them to get down to the 25-50 ft. depth range (we are only about 20-50 yards offshore) where the big Chinooks are...otherwise just counting line out by hand you're sure to end up with a feisty but small 8-10 lb. Coho because you can't get the bait down fast enough and that simply gets old after awhile...:)

I kid you not, if you wanted to simply catch Coho's all day in the Charlottes, you could catch 150-200 a day (I know guys up there that have)...when the Chinook's are between runs (or tides) and people get bored with slow fishing, that's what you do to pass the time. Most people are happy just to be catching something...:)

What are you using in the river for that 17 lb Silver? 8 weight?

Here's what we get to look at for hours and hours as we troll back and forth along the coast:

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1161138368.jpg

I think I'll build my retirement house right on the point...:)

Ralph

I regularly use an 8 weight G-Loomis GL2 10ft W/ a 10 Lb tapered tippet. That particular day I was fishing with a friend that isn't a feather tosser. I was using a 9 ft medium heavy action G-Loomis GL3 spinning rod. After hours and hours of tossing bait, jigs and all other manner of gear, I finally hooked up with a size three homemade spinner. It's about 1/2 oz in weight and it was a blackened brass body and french blade w/ a small piece of holographic black tape on the inside of the blade.

I started making my own spinners this summer for steel-head. I just got to the point where I wasn't happy with anything commercially made. Most have a piss poor clevis design, the wrong type of blade and are poorly balanced. My success with spinners has increased two-fold since I started building my own.

Tight Lines,
Micah

There are some very nice fish here. This makes me want to just get up, leave work & head someplace wild with a couple of rods foe a day or three.

Ah, I couldn't resist.http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1161277957.jpg

That's a very nice Pike, the freshwater barracuda, eh?

The Snake River looks like my kind of fishing hole...:)

Ralph

Mike, NICE fish!

Yeah, the Snake, and areas around it, God's country!

Another Pelicanite & more fish from N. Manitoba.http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1161341849.jpg

I don't have a pick (wish I did), but I saw a carp once that was right at 6 feet long. I grew up living right on a TVA reservoir and used to go fishing every day when I was a kid. This fish was a freak of nature.

I also watched my best friend's dad catch a 22 lb Muskie one day. Not a big deal, but he was using 6 lb test and this was a little reservoir in Tennessee. A 42 inch Muskie was not what we were expecting, needless to say. Also saw a Muskie eat a duck once. Mean fish.

Mike

Anyone else getting hungry...:)

Ralph

Anyone every build a rod? Tying flies has never really appealed to me (I enjoy going and buying them like a kid in a candy shop too much) but building a rod would be great. I met this salty old retired police officer who builds rods once. His basement was a labrynth of crap but he had his "shop" down there and had some amazing rods that he built (quite cheaply I might add). They were beautiful, wonderfully balanced, just perfect.