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An adipose fin is a beautiful thing!
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It's been bad for decades, and just getting worse...but I will note that if you go a terminal hatchery zone with stagnant and warm water that isn't even moving to fish for dour hatchery fish that are mainly just sitting there waiting for their turn to be stripped in the hatchery...well, it's not like you won't see this nearly every day...kinda like going to a NASCAR race and complaining about the noise.
Fish on...
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Spend a lot of time in the stagnant (now moving I'm certain) water and have yet to see this one. I'd bet that if the "ponds" were a 4 mile hike above the actual "ponds" and you had to repel and cross mighty canyon walls to get there folks would think they were "awesome"....  |
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Todd
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An adipose fin is a beautiful thing!
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They would be...if they weren't outside the hatchery gates, and loaded with dudes...which, unfortunately, they are...'course, if they were 4 miles from the nearest road, there'd be no dudes, and they'd be wild fish...and yeah, that would be quite a bit different, and probably "awesome", too.
Fish on...
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Palmer Ponds, Reiter Ponds, Calawah Ponds...how many other fine pond fisheries can we name?  |
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~Mike~ There are a few kinds of steelhead fishing; fly, float, drift, spoon, spinner, plugs, boondoggin, bobberdoggin,.... and then there is float fishing in 18\" of water. Put that in your pipe and smoke it!  |
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That said, pink years always seem to bring the freaks out.
Every last one of em' (and their cousins too), with a trout rod usually. I am glad to see someone else recognize this pattern of pink years being disasterous for real fisherman. I congratulated two guys on the river yesterday for actually "Fishing", and not doing that other thing people call salmon fishing. As long as Justin isn't within reach of my beer all will be good.  By "beer", do you mean a Mike's Hard Lemonade, Zima, or Boons? Nobodys going to take your Zima away from you Matt |
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"All the romance of trout fishing exists in the mind of the angler and is in no way shared by the fish."
~H.F. Blaisdell, The Philosophical Fisherman, 1969
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Todd
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Palmer Ponds, Reiter Ponds, Calawah Ponds...how many other fine pond fisheries can we name? Skokomish Ponds, Nisqually Ponds, Puyallup Ponds, Minter Ponds, Hoodsport Ponds, Quilcene Ponds, Salmon Ponds, Toutle Ponds, Cowlitz Ponds, Lewis Ponds...dang, the list is virtually endless... Fish on... Todd |
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By "beer", do you mean a Mike's Hard Lemonade, Zima, or Boons? Nobodys going to take your Zima away from you Matt I can't remember the last time I've had any of the above... So much for me always supplying you with a few extra beers. You're on your own from now on.  |
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-Matt
Recreational development is a job not of building roads into lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind.
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Palmer Ponds, Reiter Ponds, Calawah Ponds...how many other fine pond fisheries can we name? Skokomish Ponds, Nisqually Ponds, Puyallup Ponds, Minter Ponds, Hoodsport Ponds, Quilcene Ponds, Salmon Ponds, Toutle Ponds, Cowlitz Ponds, Lewis Ponds...dang, the list is virtually endless... Fish on... Todd Are the Skokomish Ponds near the Skok River? I hear that Skok river is a real good one. Matt... let's go fish, you bring the beers. |
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"All the romance of trout fishing exists in the mind of the angler and is in no way shared by the fish."
~H.F. Blaisdell, The Philosophical Fisherman, 1969
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Haven't been on the site in a while. Thanks for the reminder, Justin. Right when I thought my time of mourning was over. |
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