That is almost true. Gotta use both hands and most of the 10 fingers I still have left.

I hear that Hanker guy not only needs two hands but has had to resort to using toes too!

MFer. I gotta get in on that action! You're a guide, right?

Lol..I'm dead

Done.

You're welcome.

in 3 trips with Robert, ive hooked 11, 10 and 10, thats just out of his boat...

ive also caught a few Steelhead out of the Duckabush, Dosewallips, south fork of the Sky, the Snoqualmie, Skook, Green, and the Puyallup...

i target whatever swims and if it bites my sh!t, so be it... there are also B run silvers around, and they will bite this sh!t as well... im not going to huck spoons all day when i can bang out 10 fish per hour in some instances, fishing is supposed to be fun, and i have fun....

im also known to catch bass on dick nite's



and fat fvckin trout on Koke gear

The infamous Yellow Rod!!!!!

We have a winner!!!!!

best fvcking 25 bucks ive ever spent... matter of fact, i bought another one i was so impressed with it....

i generally run weight with my Koke gear instead of riggers, and glass rods are needed for that... i used to use my Lami S Glass, but retired that after i bought those 2... they show the dodger thump excellent, and also work great in riggers if i do use them...

8 foot 4-10 is perfect for what im doing....

Roosevelt smallie?

Lol...lord of the chums.

Yeah... Can't wait to go back...

Hopefully the kokes will be hanging around down there next time....

Its on the bucket list for sure.
Those rainbows there are beauts.

Friend of mine who is the best steelhead fisherman I've ever met says when he lived in Kodiak Alaska he used to catch chums in the salt that were staging and he said they were the most insane fish he had ever hooked. Far be it from me to hate on Chum. I caught one in the Chetco once incidentally , I think they look pretty cool.

What's wrong with you ?

Nice photo Evo, I would love to catch a few Chum's, those bastards are a kick in the ass ! I can't believe how fast those nice Chum runs have dwindled. Thanks for sharing.

ya know, thats the thing... the WDFW said that the runs were low, blah blah blah... the last 8 years or so, the Chum have been wiped out of this system...

till this year....

the Indians were supposed to pull their nets, as agreed, and some have, a few havent... even tho, this has been the best Chum fishing/run ive seen in the last 10 years...

while there are B runs around, this is one of the worst years ive seen for the late Ho's in this town...

anyways, rather odd the amount of fish that make it up river to spawn when the nets are pulled...

aint that right Salmo....

Chums are nasty, but they'll definitely put a bend in yer' rod. Doggies in the salt are not too awful either. Many have told me fresh salt doggies are decent table fair, but I wouldn't know. Fvck that [Bleeeeep!].

Nate - I hope you aren't eating those Smallies. Or maybe I do hope you are eating those Smallies. I can't decide.

Barf.

Really clean, cold fresh water Smallies are actually pretty good table fair (think Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin fish etc..The Columbia doesn't count)…..but there is not a chance in hell I'd eat one from Western Washington.

Bass suck as table fare.

Yeah...Cali bass. No chit Sherlock. The water has to be FREEZING cold. The meat is completely different and much more firm and similar to Walleye, only with more bones. Cali bass are mush ass, which explains Hank.

I've been fortunate enough to take a couple 2 week trips into the Boundary Waters. Many, many miles by canoe with many crappy portages. 100's of lakes covered of all sizes. We caught loads of pike, walleye, lake trout and smallies. 5 - 8 lbs. smallies all day long. They were good to eat and I'm really not much of a fish eater. Firm clean white meat that was welcomed in the skillet after a long day of paddling and catching big fish. That's all I got.

And I won't!

Puke.

I wonder if they're hand fed crab meat?

Not to quote myself, but on one of those BW trips, I caught a Laker that actually stopped our canoe dead cold in the water. Light spinning trout rod loaded w/ 8 lb. to a 4 oz. banana & trolling spoon out the back of the canoe held between my legs. It stopped the fvcking canoe dead cold mate! North of 25 lbs. 6 of us ate the entire thing in camp that night like a pack of ravenous wolves. We were on like day 12 of 14 and starving. I have the entire fight videoed on VHS somewhere (from one those old 1980's HUGE VHS camcorders). I was maybe 13 - 14 years old then. Those were great times.