Of course work was a shit show and I got out of there late but I am getting my shit together, throwing it Ye Olde Chevrolet and beating feet to the coast to do some of this.
62 1/2 years I have lived on the West Coast, a couple of times for multiple years literally right next to some of the finest Salmon fishing grounds in the entire world and I have never caught one of the little sonsabitches. Mainly from a complete lack of trying.
But it’s been on my Bucket List now for several years and hopefully this weekend I am going to take care of that.
Even if I don’t I’m going to have a good time trying.
I’m not taking my laptop and I have no idea what if any internet I am going to have so CederQ is going to be picking up the slack.
See ya in a couple of days, hopefully.
Yay, Phil!! I used to charter a boat with 6 or 7 people I knew, and we’d go out from San Pedro (late one night, no less…) in August to catch yellow tail, barracuda, and a couple of others that ran at that time of the year. Great fun, and when you hook an ocean fish, it ain’t nothing like a freshwater fish, except maybe a northern pike or muskie.
Have fun, buddy!
I got your back bud, now give me your right knee… nah, your skinny assed knee won’t hold this perfect specimen of a large man up no ways! Have fun, catch a big one and for god sake don’ t go falling off the boat and disappear. remember, the front is called the bow, rear, the stern, left side port and right starboard and the crapper is called the head, don’t get any nautical terms mixed up.
Above all, Phil, HAVE FUN – I hope you don’t get motion sickness!!
Forget the innerwebs for the weekend, have FUN !
Surely CederQ can’t screw up TOO bad….
Hey, if I screw up I do it right and with finesse….
My father used to fish the Alsea river during the Salmon run back in the early 60s.
I used to co-own the Handyman RV park there in Waldport.
Really? I have spent the last 30 some years working the coastal streams around there. I figure I walked up and down 10K miles of salmon habitat on the central coast.
I live on the Yaquina bay, up near Toledo. Work in SouthBeach for the Gumt, documenting the bottom of the ocean via ROV surveys. Virtual SCUBA diving, so to speak. Good job for an old guy who wore himself out walking up creeks for what seemed like, forever.
For me fishing is awesome, catching is just bonus. My brother not so much.
I could fish all day and be good. Fishing to me is the most stress relieving thing I do.
Fished Lake Fork in Texas many years ago. Skunked first two days but the thought of just that one bite!!!!
Saw the guy who caught Ethel the U.S. record at the time. Beater bronco and a multi thousand dollar nitro in tow. That man has his priorities right.
Bed fishing ha. I swore up and down I would not waste my time. The sunburn on one side of my face told me otherwise. It’s hard not to when you can see ’em. They are smart, suck that worm in and spit it out. Never caught one with that method.
Ya gotta train the worms to go straight to the stomach.
“The worst day fishing is better the best day working”
Have fun.
Doing the same thing next week in Valdez for silvers (coho to you southerners). Tear ‘em up, Phil!