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watermen

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  1. thanks for the info it's getting close if the weather would stabilize
  2. Heading down wed and thursday has anyone been pulling bottom bouncers and crawlers on the points for eyes yet or are they still in the post spawn funk. thanks
  3. Went yesterday and this morning above Jerome and up to 17. Lots of smallies up to 17 all males caught in dead water no females but one that hadn't dropped her eggs yet. Goggle eye has been slow still with root wads and boulders holding some, but they're not chasing or hitting well yet. Mostly bass. River is in good shape right now.
  4. Basspro sells jigs with fine wire loop that makes tubes almost snag free in the rocks of the rivers. They're called xtreme and are on inside of first shelf before the end at the sprgfld store. Made especially for tubes GL
  5. Fished the little for a couple of hours tonight before dark while tending minnow traps. A real grab bag of fish. Floods left some more classic runs that are harder to fish but hold more fish this time of year. rocks had smallies and rfast water had a few trout in it. fished the big g on sunday night by jeerome but only a few lms on buzzbaits.
  6. Yeah Phil the boys are very Hollywood. They [producers} would be able to find a jug fisherman on a flys only c&r section of blue ribbon fly water. You can take a ride any time. It is interesting to see the reality of reallity shows. Don't know much about other reallitties,but I do know fishing reallities.
  7. Last July Phil got a tour of th provider. Owned by Vern Hall from the family that pioneered the crab fishery off Alaska. And probably didn't recognize doug from one of the earlier shows. He got to stand in the wheelhouse of one of the originals and see that some of the crabfleet is a little rough and tough. He even got to eat some crab off the boat, don't know if he is still a huge fan as the show is very hollywood now. Not very realistic and dramatized for your entertainment. He didn't have time to meet some of the cast members or tour the boats and probably doesn't realize how close they were to him. Be interesting to see what he thinks now. Next time Phil let a guy know your interested. Guff
  8. I have sockeye,coho, and halibut for sale. salmon 8.50 LB halibut 13.00 lb 70% of retail. White table cloth restaurant quality. Call for ordering and delivery info. 573-578-3495
  9. Last years red run was 44 million fish baywide with a harvest of 31 million fish. Naknek itself was 9 million with 3.3 up the river and target of around 1 million. State has a good site at ak.dept.fishandgame.gov.or just google bristol bay salmon. Either way you'll get there. Ugashik my favorite place to spend the summer had 3 up the river as well with mid range goal of 720,000. Pm'd you with cell # in the bay. Just love those bb cellular rates. And my 6 watt bag phone that weighs 10lbs. Believe it or not you can still buy them at the store in KS.Sent some to some farmer friends of mine in ND last year so they could communicate from the tractor. Wonders of king salmon never cease. Hope things are stabilizing after water hit you looks like the pattern has swung, Huge high in the central gulf right now that has put temps in the 50's over much of sw ak. Spring is on it's way up there may not have to take my winter coat this wknd.
  10. Phil, as you know We target reds out in the bay. In order to protect the qvijak and it's red runs to the lake, we have been limitted where we can fish.Hence the in river fishing in the Naknek I deplore and hate to put it to you mildly. The Naknek river itself has an inseason escapement goal of 565,00 to 840,000 fish escapement of reds. This comes from msy{maximum sustained yield} numbers that date back to before 1900. Last year there were 3,000,000 million reds that went up the Naknek to spawn. If you remember salmon biology you know the lakes need these fish to die and provide nutrients from the ocean to the freshwater systems. Too many however, can create Phosphporous overload of the lake and the subsequent algae blooms and lack of oxygen over the winter adversely affects other salmon species as well as the the trout and dollies that feed on them. The biologists that manage the fishery are recognized all over the world for their management of these fragile systems. They balance market influence unsure run timing commercial and sport fish interests, as well as the fish themselves,which is a great challenge in itself. Just talked to 3 guys in ak last night and the mine is becoming a bigger issue instate. 600 billion dollars worth of metal in the ground and the fish take a back seat. The only reason Ak still has the runs it does is because of lower population pressures. It' the only place left in the world where these runs still occur in the magnitude they do. Anyway enough philosophizing. Slim Morestad {a crazed sport fisherman} and paul salmon {salmone--Pron} are the area biologists in the King salmon office and are worth a talk to and really nice guys when not in the middle of managing a fishing season,ie oct or sept. Dick Russell is the retired area head and he lives right behind the diamond
  11. both are down green and fishing well. Some things have changed though and some holes are shoals and trees block the rivers in interesting places. The fish are biting and that's the main thing.
  12. Phil that,s a deal and a half. Don't know how you can buy gas and groceries for that. Would bring warm clothes though. Lockup happens typically between the 15th and 30th most years and we have a la nina developing this year. your liable to have snow instead of rain. Ponds are still locked up there and kodiak as well as of yesterday. Not as late as last year,but weather is reverting back just like it is hear. Hope the fishing holdsfor you and you weathered the flood well. I fly to kiodiak the 27th and am prepared for snow again this year. Don't think the bears are still at brooks that time of year typically either. If we can't hold escapement under 1 million in the naknek the next few years the fishing is going to drop way off for you as well as the commercial fleet. Found some rooms finally yesterday and will try to beat you to the early ones at the airport. One more positive note gas is 6.29 at the shop uptown and 6.49 at the store in king salmon. I'm sure the truck got drained this winter. Tell your guys if they like to duck hunt to bring a shot gun that time of year,the river gets covered with ducks and sometimes some unique species for missourians. good luck the boat name is the same.
  13. low visibility,high water,lots of fish, few fishermen
  14. Biologically there is no difference removing a female from the population in june, august,November or April, She still will not spawn the following spawning season. Since most larger specimens of all fish species are female, removing large fish form the population removes the spawning recruitment. Game departments and the nmfs base their harvest and possesion limits on TAC (total allowable catch) capacities for given bodies of water.State agencies in most places have adopted slot limits for harvest guidelines to protect their spawning recruitment, there is now a question as to female fecundity as they age, hence the usual one trophy allowance. Even catch and release has a pretty high mortality,some species higher than others. Playing with your food and catching fish after fish is still detrimental to fish populations,Don't rationalize read the studies that are out there and then decide and quite baiting each other it diminishes the sport and the fun. Poachers need to be hammered period.
  15. jdmidwest, Problems on west coast have more to do with dams and lowered genetic survivability of hathery fish. 90% of west coast run now consists of hatchery fish. After realizing what dams did to anadromous fish runs the states put in hatcheries below the ddams and spawning streams. Columbia had record run of wild chinooks 3 years ago,Post dam runs!!! The concern with the Klamath,, Smith, and other northern california systems has more to due with water flow from irrigation interests and aluminum industry located in the area. Sport fishing as well as commercial fishing has been shut down due to concern over certain rivers. Sport fishing harvest exceeds commercial on the west coast by 200%. The commercial fishermen can't move to Alaska, this would require a permit which have been fixed in number since 1972. As far as the silvers go last year was poor after several very good years. The cycle of the lakes and rivers that nuture wild fish require that smolt production drop in order for plankton regeneration to occur. These are wild fish with natural constraints placed on them other than when some guy walks by with a can of food to throw at them. Alaska has no dams and no agriculture,however we are having mine problems right now in two areas and I guarantee that in the end the fish and the fishermen will lose.
  16. Went down to see my uncle this after noon and had muddied up and risen again. If we get anymore thursday I' say definately not. Still not going to be green by then and fishing won't be very good for awhile, I'd say there full by now. Mill creek looks good was up there listening for turks last night.
  17. Rps' They're kind of where you find them. River bottoms around here are best. Always check around dead cottonwoods or dead elms. Black ash trees around the drip line on the south side of the tree is also worth a try. As you find a good area you can go back year after year, some better than others. I usually find them turkey hunting,and the up side to all this rain is the woods will be quite and full of morels. Burn areas where conservation has been in and burned state forest can be real good as well. good luck and burn some shoeleather you'll find some.
  18. Missed you on the dock, but you probably saw the WI plates on the raptor,dad wanted to fish walleye. The males will hang around after the spawn till water goes up few more degrees. They're at first break 25 to 30 as you drift down river Just like you were doing in your high wter video. Caught 20 or 25 real quick wed night ,but they stopped right before dark,either moved to the dam into the trees to feed or shut down because they quit generating, Iwent to other side,But nephews were losing to many jigs in the rocks and you were out of the plastic color I needed in the shop. Had to have 1/2 oz head to keep down in the current. WEd am the same ,But we didn't leave minnows at the door of #4.They shut down again at 930 and trees looked like they had stopped generating.
  19. Males are stacked up below the dam along the first break and biting pretty well on 1/2 ozs. and plastic but better with minnows. Lots of sorting for legals though.
  20. Phil, Next summer try the long grass by the aiport in king salmon or along the landing road past pike lake. They're some of the biggest whites i've ever seen and theygo off in early june there.
  21. little will be fishable by tommorrow or the next day. Be interesting to see how things changed. Some of the access points are a mess with obvios changes visible close with slightly dingy water. Glad I went last sunday. Gasconade could take awhile especially if more comes later in the week.
  22. went over the road at 63 and went down to arlington and jerome 3 nights. it was pretty incredible. the river was higher on the railroad bridge at jerome than any 70 yr old can remember. Looked at spring creek tonight and the flood had scoured the river down to the bedrock in many places. By the house at the end of E nobody could get home.
  23. Don't know what great fishing is ,but if you go early in april or may before the bass opener 20-30 fish days with some to 19 or 20 are common with lots of 12-16 inch fish from spring creek down. After the spawn funk and the hordes decend fishing gets worse and I never go much past may myself. Fishing is still pretty good,but not as I remember it 30 years ago. Then nothun is you never saw the traffic on the river you do now. Any nice day in the summer looks like 4th of july wknd did then. Otters ,fishermen , the river changing,( before the charcolers and logging both pineys had considerably more water and deeper holes for the fish. They're both quality trips just try a nice 75 degrre day in late april and see if there's more fish to be had. Should be and you won't see many fishermen. gd
  24. walleye hunter' Iwas jigging with great big slicks i'd trapped. Didn't have any hits on minnows less tan three inches and they wanted it dragged next to the rocks in 17 or 18 ft. Missed a couple till i put on stinger hooks;but some of my minnows were 5-6 inches. Early like this i use a plane white northland jig. they have an eye on the bottom for their stingers thatt have little flyfishing snaps that go in the bottom eye. The darn is hard on these jigs cause they.re expensive as jigs w/stinger so I had 30lb fire line to save some. goodluck watermen
  25. Fished down by the dam on sunday aft. Caught 2 18 inch walleye right away,lost one more at the boat by 530 so we jerked out and drove down to aldrich. Caughtt 4 more one keeper and 3 small whites until full dark. JIGGING THE WHOLE TIME.
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