BilletHead Posted January 16 Posted January 16 Angler earns $159,310 fishing pikeminnow on WA, OR rivers | Tri-City Herald Quillback and dpitt 2 "We have met the enemy and it is us", Pogo If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend" Lefty Kreh " Never display your knowledge, you only share it" Lefty Kreh "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!" BilletHead " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting" BilletHead P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs" BilletHead
Quillback Posted January 16 Posted January 16 They started that program when I lived there, I don't know if it has had any effect at all as far as helping salmon. dpitt and BilletHead 2
BilletHead Posted January 16 Author Posted January 16 1 hour ago, Quillback said: They started that program when I lived there, I don't know if it has had any effect at all as far as helping salmon. I remember you telling us that. I hope it helps the salmon. It's sure helpful on this fellows Bank account. Quillback 1 "We have met the enemy and it is us", Pogo If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend" Lefty Kreh " Never display your knowledge, you only share it" Lefty Kreh "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!" BilletHead " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting" BilletHead P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs" BilletHead
Quillback Posted January 17 Posted January 17 12 hours ago, BilletHead said: I remember you telling us that. I hope it helps the salmon. It's sure helpful on this fellows Bank account. Save them from the pikeminnows and then they get eaten by birds. There is also bird management (see link below). There is so much money spent - about billion dollars per year, and so much research and management that goes into the Columbia river steelhead and salmon runs. Employs a lot of lawyers too. Annual update on avian predation in the basin highlights emerging challenges BilletHead 1
BilletHead Posted January 17 Author Posted January 17 1 hour ago, Quillback said: Save them from the pikeminnows and then they get eaten by birds. There is also bird management (see link below). There is so much money spent - about billion dollars per year, and so much research and management that goes into the Columbia river steelhead and salmon runs. Employs a lot of lawyers too. Annual update on avian predation in the basin highlights emerging challenges Don't forget the Sea lions! Killers they are. Quillback and Johnsfolly 2 "We have met the enemy and it is us", Pogo If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend" Lefty Kreh " Never display your knowledge, you only share it" Lefty Kreh "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!" BilletHead " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting" BilletHead P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs" BilletHead
Quillback Posted January 17 Posted January 17 42 minutes ago, BilletHead said: Don't forget the Sea lions! Killers they are. Not a fan of them for sure. Johnsfolly and BilletHead 2
Johnsfolly Posted January 17 Posted January 17 4 hours ago, BilletHead said: Don't forget the Sea lions! Killers they are. I don't know about the California sea lions on whether they are very agressive towards people. We treated stellars sea lions we met while fishing in Alaska as cautiously as if we encountered bears on the river. They also were much larger than the sea lions that I saw in Newport OR. Both species can eat a lot of salmon.
Quillback Posted January 17 Posted January 17 1 hour ago, Johnsfolly said: I don't know about the California sea lions on whether they are very agressive towards people. We treated stellars sea lions we met while fishing in Alaska as cautiously as if we encountered bears on the river. They also were much larger than the sea lions that I saw in Newport OR. Both species can eat a lot of salmon. I had one bad CA sea lion encounter while salmon fishing in Puget Sound. Brought a sub-legal chinook to the side of the boat, was reaching over to unhook it and let it go when out of nowhere a sea lion BLEW UP on that salmon, maybe 3 feet away from my hand. Just about gave me a heart attack, I had no idea that thing was in the area, and BOOM! He did not grab the salmon, I'm guessing he wanted it but didn't want to get too close to the human. BilletHead and Johnsfolly 2
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