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Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: KC
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No photos up yet, but I've had an incredible time fishing here in Wyoming since Saturday. We're staying in Jackson, and I've fished the Hobak, Flat Creek, the Snake River and a couple lakes, and have had excellent success at each location.
This morning we hiked into Flat Creek on the National Elk Refuge, where I caught several nice Cutthroat on Adams flies and then this evening we dodged a rainstorm to catch some nice Bows and Cutties on the snake with larger flies (I was throwing a Chubby Chernobyl). Tomorrow we head to West Yellowstone. Still feeling out where to walk/wade there, but have a couple spots pinpointed for starters. Crossing this beautiful country off the bucket list has been incredible!
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Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Valley of the hot as ****
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#2823 |
Fish are scared of me
Join Date: Nov 2001
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#2824 |
pie is never free
Join Date: Sep 2006
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These things are absolutely destroying the Illinois river, among many others... guys around here stand on top of bridges and bow hunt them, pulling out fish the size of dogs
Missed the redneck fishing tourny two years in a row now, a very good time with a street carnival atmosphere year before last it was canceled because of flooding, and this year because of the rona http://www.redneckfishingtournament.com/ |
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Cynical Misanthrope
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Alaska
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My state is super paranoid about invasive species in the water. No live bait is allowed in any stream, lake or ocean fishery in this state. ADF&G banned felt waders several years ago because of the potential of importing eggs from some snail with no natural enemies so now I have to walk on slippery river rocks with rubber-soled wading boots. Part of the issue is that with lakes and rivers being frozen half the year, the fish are more susceptible to fishing pressure than in places with year-round open water and year-round food supplies.
A few decades ago, some idiots transplanted pike from rivers in central Alaska to southern Alaska so they could catch them without having to drive/boat so far. When pike go into a lake or to waters, they eat the salmon out and salmon are far more profitable than pike, both to commercial and sport fisheries. Depending on the water, they also will eat the grayling, trout and char. Sometimes pike get transferred into new water by flooding or rivers/lakes changing courses and boundaries, though. There is a plant-based toxin, rotenone, that will block fish from being able to absorb oxygen from the water. It is inert to humans so it apparently does no damage to humans but it kills every last fish. It also breaks down in fish flesh fairly quickly and is not as toxic to birds or wildlife, so there’s no bio-accumulation that would then kill birds and wildlife that eat rotenone-killed fish. Alaska F&G has used rotenone to kill pike (and any other fish) in lakes and rivers where pike have been introduced and pike have come to dominate the local food chain. Retenone settles to the bottom of the lake and, being plant-based, dissolves. After a bit of time, they re-introduce native fish. I think that they usually put the toxin down in fall and then re-introduce fish after ice out next summer but I could be wrong about that. I don’t know if it is being used for Asian carp but given how wide-spread the carp seem to be, the quantities necessary to produce the desired results may be prohibitive for a variety of reasons. But it’s something to consider. |
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Join Date: Oct 2019
Location: Seattle, USA
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What a great topic! I'm pretty new here and I'm glad that I've found this discussion. I bought a motorboat this summer. Now I'm looking for a motor. Having looked through a review on https://trollingmotorsguide.com/best-saltwater-trolling-motor-reviews/, I decided that Minn Kota 1088337 Riptide Ulterra would be the best choice for me. When I finally buy and install it, I'm going fishing together with my family. Thanks for sharing your experience, guys!
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#2827 |
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Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Alaska
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This may be viewed as DC because the article tries to tie this to the President. That's not my point. My point is the decision made about Bristol Bay and the world's largest freshwater salmon hatchery. This really relates to fishing, particularly in my back yard and the fishing thread is here and not in DC but if mods think otherwise, feel free to delete this post.
That aside, I am super pleased to announce that Pebble Mine's application has been denied: https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/2020...r-pebble-mine/ I lived in Bristol Bay for several years and I go back to go fishing every fall. Those are some hallowed waters: the Kvichak, Tularik, Copper, Battle Creek, Moraine, the American, the Gibraltar. I've watched the water boil from the red salmon runs. I've felt a hard bump when a 35+ lb king salmon runs into me. I've had to wait for bears to leave fishing holes. I've knocked ice out of my fly rod guides in late September. I've landed 30" wild rainbow trout. I've caught so many grayling on a dry fly that I literally cannot count them. It's a special place and I'm glad that Northern Dynasty with their horrible record and shitty proposal won't be allowed to screw it up. |
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#2828 |
Tip of the hat LIV Champs
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: ks
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Carp are stupid I hate carp. I can be fishing and no bites and think will ****. Then I hear a splash and get all excited and then maybe another splash and then i realize it's just stupid carp jumping in the water, bastards. When they are spawning you can go right up to them and pick them stupid ****s up right out of the water. Or just shoot them with a bow but they are stupid fish and they are stupid.
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Bono & Grbac wasn't enough
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Sioux City, IA
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Carp r gud
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Hey Loochy, I'm hooome!
Join Date: Oct 2008
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#2831 |
Bono & Grbac wasn't enough
Join Date: Oct 2000
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I prefer smart carp over stupid carp
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#2832 |
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Join Date: Jun 2007
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Hog's Gone Fishing
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#2833 |
Fish are scared of me
Join Date: Nov 2001
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LOL! Awesome
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It was not a fair catch
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Correcting papers
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thought I would throw this in. good article
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#2835 |
pie is never free
Join Date: Sep 2006
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Check this out from one of my favorite youtubers, Richard Gene the Fishing Machine... a 61 pound blue cat on 10 pound line, its in the first 9 minutes
Yeeeah buddy, this warm weather has the fishing bug hitting hard, and my crew are going to be working roughly half this spring and summer on jobs at Lake of The Ozarks... I'm about to experience the best fishing of my life |
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