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RE:goals for the salmon and steelheaders out there

Post by fish_4_all » Mon Mar 23, 2009 4:08 pm

My goal is to catch a couple summers on my new shrimp jigs. That and catch a dozen ore on whatever they will bite. Hopefully I will find someone to go with more this year so I get out more than 3 times.

As for salmon, I hope the run is awesome for Coho and I get to the second column on my punch card this year. I went for 3 years and didn't catch a sinlge fish but broke the drought in fall 2008 with 4 adults and a jack. Hope to quadruple that this year. Hopefully what I have learned from the last couple years and from other sites I can fine tune a home made spinner to catch fish when other can't using store bought ones.

I also hope to finally not get skunked fishing Duck Lake and hopefully catch a couple crappie slabs and a nice big stringer of perch.
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Post by curado » Mon Mar 23, 2009 7:56 pm

a special goal is to get a little kid hooked up to a silver on the wallace like last year or a pink. i enjoy watching little kids catch their first salmon.
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Post by natenez » Tue Mar 24, 2009 7:31 am

This year I plan on learning how to fish for steelhead and salmon, especially in the Snohmoish river system. I figure with the estimated Pink return this year, I even stand a chance at catching something. :)
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Post by curado » Wed Mar 25, 2009 8:25 pm

yeah you should catch a few pinks and some coho but for coho the wallace is my fav
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Post by Toni » Wed Mar 25, 2009 8:45 pm

I plan on going to the cowlitz in the morning and I am hoping God puts some steel at the end of my hook.

3-26-09 I came home without any fish. I saw 2 caught. Next time I am bringing more gear.
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Post by noclothes1 » Thu Mar 26, 2009 12:11 pm

Goal - Pull enough fish out of the river to justify to my wife that I "need" to buy a Revo or Curado.
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Post by curado » Thu Mar 26, 2009 5:15 pm

thats a fun one
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Post by curado » Wed Aug 12, 2009 7:14 pm

thought i would bring this back
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Post by crankbait42 » Wed Aug 12, 2009 7:28 pm

catch a king or steelhead on a fly rod.
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Post by Bodofish » Thu Aug 13, 2009 7:45 am

top 100 pinks in an afternoon.......
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Post by crankbait42 » Thu Aug 13, 2009 7:50 am

100 pinks holy cow! in the salt or in a river?
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Post by curado » Thu Aug 13, 2009 9:07 am

heck i lose count after 50 lol
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Post by noclothes1 » Thu Aug 13, 2009 10:23 am

Catch a coho as a gill-netter drifts by.

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Post by returnofthefish » Thu Aug 13, 2009 10:43 am

I am new to salmon fishing. My goal is to not turn in an empty punch card. I hope a pink salmon can help me out.
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Post by curado » Fri Aug 21, 2009 11:36 am

catch all 5 PNW salmon species 3 down 2 to go
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Post by noclothes1 » Fri Aug 21, 2009 1:08 pm

I got 3 of 5, doubt I'll get the sockeye & decent odds on the chum.

I caught a blackmouth off the beach near my house. Pretty sure it was a king. I'm calling it one.....
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Post by izzMo » Mon Aug 24, 2009 2:36 pm

My goal is to catch anything at this point. Caught a small trout on woods creek. Spent the day out on the corn field area where you need a key, saturday. Watched people across the river catch a few. I just want to fish, I am getting hooked but haven't hooked crap yet.
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RE:goals for the salmon and steelheaders out there

Post by noclothes1 » Wed Sep 09, 2009 11:08 am

noclothes1 wrote:Goal - Pull enough fish out of the river to justify to my wife that I "need" to buy a Revo or Curado.
My wife got me a new Revo Inshore for my birthday! Mission accomplished. Damn she is too nice to me.
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