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The photo sites now want traffic coming to them instead of sending pics to other sites - understandable. For those interested in seeing the 4 pics below (stashed among several other fish pics of mine) you need to access
www.photopoint.com and type in my reeltruth1@aol.com addy on the upper right. Once in my Steve Hanson directory click on view albums and then on 'recreation' to see them. Thanks.
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The excellant late native steelhead C&R season in NW Oregon and NW Wash. have really made up for the lack of good hatchery returns earlier. Enough so that some friends and I have only fished springers sparingly (so far). ...
Today on Fri. 4/20, my friend Mark Anderson, of firstcastjigs.com , and I worked over a fresh late run of Tillamook nates with his new Shalappen feather hackled chrome beaded jigheads, baited with a variety of scented bass rubber - pink worms, simulated egg clusters, and small crayfish among them. I had the lucky day hooking fish for a change, and got the big one too. The first pic is Mark with his nate.
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This is my hen weighing in the low teens; hooked on the second cast very early in the morning (by the look on my face it doesn't look like I realize where I am yet).
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Releasing a nate.
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And from an earlier multi-fish day filmed by The Hot Tamale Outdoor Show, hosted by Scott Kappes, here's Shane with a tough nate buck weighing in the low teens.
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The show will be aired in the Portland metro area on cable TV Ch. 11 on Mon. May 7th at 9:00 p.m. Check their site for other channels, areas, and dates. ... There will be fresh nates for another week or 2, and soon after summers and springers to dangle jigs or shrimp scented colored worms in front of!
RT
[ 04-22-2001: Message edited by: RT ]