i was fishing,kinda strange i told the guys i was with look at them waves in the water,they just looked at me like i was crazy and we kept on fishing.other than that did'nt feel a thing.

Does an earthquake affect fishing? Duh!!! Of course it does!! My dog was freakin' out just before the quake hit. Animals are way more sensative to sh!t like earthquakes then us humans are. Parker and Bob were fishing the Kasilof this summer and a hot bite shut down for no apparent reason. Bob said that there must have been an earthquake close by and the fish were in "protection" mode and that is why the bite died off so fast. I'm telling this story second hand so Bob, Parker, feel free to elaborate.

Shake, rattle and roll. Glad to hear that evrybody is ok, I am still waiting to hear from my buds that were up on the Sky today. I wonder how many riprap walls fell apart on the rivers, not to mention all the hill sides that came a tumblin' down.

SaukIt;
Were yer buddies parked at Big Eddy? They may still be there!

Seattle has really lucked out. This will give everyone a good chance to get ready for the BIG ONE. I am going to start doing more stretching so that when the BIG ONE hits I will be able to bend over and kiss my ass goodbye

(Stirred not Shaken, please. Make it a double, thank you.)

GutZ

fishing was really affected by the quake!
i was in sultan this morning fishing the sky.
i didn't get one bite. so i went to the mickey dees in monroe to eat some lunch when all of a sudden the whole building started to shake! at that time they said it was a 6.2 centered north of olympia, well i live in tacoma, so i'am thinking if the qauke felt that strong way up in monroe it must have hit tacoma pretty hard. well after the big traffic jams i finally made it home.
my wife was already home with the kids. everybody was o.k. the house has a few cracks near the celling, but everything is fine.

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Just saw three nice hatchery fish caught by my buddy and his partner today on a local river. Apparently, these fish weren't put off the bite by our most recent "geologic event". He said they were hooking fish pretty much all day and was unaware we even had a quake until he got home. He said he must have been crossing the river at the time, and just passed it off as the current, etc. Interesting topic, though.

Fish on.........

Well, Fort Lewis survived pretty much unscathed, but needless to say that being so close to the epicenter (looks like it was pretty much centered on the Nisqually delta) we got the crap shaken out of us. Lots of damage in Oly, and the store my wife works in in Lacy looks like a herd of buffalo ran thru the isles. We wuz lucky!
Greg

Finally have a slow moment as all my crews are out repairing damage to our natural gas system. Most problems in Thurston County but no major outages anywhere. I will probably be out all night as the calls are still coming in. If you smell gas call 1-888-225-5773.

Well the College of Ocean and Fisheries Libary survived "Earthquake 2001." That was where I was at...very ironic. I was reading about last night's earthquake in Wenatchee when the groud started shaking.

Mike Chamberlain got a pretty nasty burn on his back. He was at the DNR building in Olympia for the Steelhead and Cutthroat Advisory Committee meeting. While he was hunkered down, a steaming hot pot of coffee came crashig down on his back.

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Ryan S. Petzold
aka
Sparkey and/or Special

Earthquake? Is that what that was? Happened to be out on the south side of hat island and felt and heard a strange vibration coming thru the hull. figured it was just the current and forgot about it. Kinda felt like something had gotten stuck in the prop while going full blast but we were trolling on the kicker. Got two nice fish to boot!

My brother and I were fishing in Alaska last spring and all of a sudden the driftboat started rocking and rumbling, thought my other buddy was pulling a fast one on us, turned around and he was just standing there looking dumb-founded. We looked at the bank and it was moving up and down and the trees were swaying and making a racket like it was real windy, but it was dead calm. Funny how it transmitted right thru the water into the driftboat as if we were on land not in the middle of the river.

We too survived in Gig Harbor, and the Narrows Bridge is still standing.


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Steve Ng....The FishNg1
99 F-350 Powerstroke 4x4 , 18ft Alumaweld Formula Vee Sled, 115 Yamaha, and now also Campion 215 walkaround, 135 Merc.

Can you all imagine the damage we would have had if we were getting our normal rainfall.I,ll bet it would have been 10 times worse.Standing on the riverbank today at 11 felt like standing on a waterbed with my kids jumping on it.Glad everybody is OK.

After fishing the Pilchuck all bloody day without a bite I was convinced the quake had put them off the bite. Until I talked to my partner who was up at Reiter when IT hit. He witnessed a guy land six, mostly natives, to his none.

TK

'72 Datsun B210, Sevlor 160 w/ PVC oars, and a 11' Livingston w/9.9 Johnson.

Justin-
Was that your mom in the green jacket with the red hair???

HAHA...a family of 'World Famouses,' I guess we need to find you a girl that is 'World Famous' also. [Bleeeeep!] seems to be 'Internet Famous,' seems to be she also wants to be World Famous. She would be perfect for 'ya.

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Ryan S. Petzold
aka
Sparkey and/or Special

Hey Special, that was her, bro. You are right about the family of World Famouses. My mom, me, now we just need to get my dad into the mix.

As far as [Bleeeeep!] goes, I'll take her up to the Sauk Steelie Ranch and Sauk it to her anytime!!! After reviewing my initial thoughts, and having a few alcoholic bevies, I think she'd be OK if she just kept her big mouth shut! Then again, it's a lot easier to judge chicks when you don't have beer goggles on.



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Ryan S. Petzold
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Sparkey and/or Special

Over here in Gig Harbor everything is fine. I was just climbing out of the shower when it happened. Not fun! Everything is fine here, though. Just some broken glass, and a broken hot water heater hose, but that is it.

I happened to be fishing a local river at the time--trees were swayin', boat was clankin'(I though the anchor was hittin' the side of the boat--and it was all the way up.) We caught fish before the quake and after--although we did go through a dry spell after the quake of about a half hour. We now have a new name for the hole we were fishing--the earthquake hole. Wierd but beautiful day on the river.

Fishing the sky anchored up in the whirly hole anchor line just starts vibrating, I look back think to myself thats weird. Hour later boat floats by one of the guys said, heh did you feel the quake? Answer no buddy better slow down on that bottle,HEEHEE!