Salmo, Salmo, Salmo,

You too have way to much time on yours hands now adays!

You say; "You keep having one wild hair after another this season." Hey, "apples don't fall far from the tree do they!

When was the last time that we saw you post so many posting turkey?

If my memory is correct, and I know it is, didn't I see you floating on one of my secret "honey holes" last year in your rubber duck boat? Hummmm, I didn't see you getting out of your rubber duck and fish from the banks… did I? I am sure you did, I did not see you!

What fishermen in his right mind would fish on top of his fish salmo? If he does that, he won't half to worry will he? And one more thing salmo, you said; "Lastly, have you noticed the absence of launching sites there?" Da , Da, Da, Da…all the land is now private property… except for the state road easements! Ant there, one can lunch a raft, or platoon boat!

Salmo, I would be proud to go with you...but you need to do the rolling!

Happy New Year Tukey!


Cowlitzfisherman

cfm,

is it possible for you to make your points without being so long-winded. i want to read what you have to say, but if you exercised some brevity and got straight to the point (independent of the topic), your 'points' would get across to a lot more interested readers. maybe i am in the minority here, but i do not have 5 minutes to read each post you make, wish i did.

just my .02 - no offense, i just want to get at what you are trying to say, a little more easily.

nutn

The north fork stilly has the same rule above Cisero and I think most people are fine with it. The river is just too small. If it were open to it, I think there would be a race to see who could pull their plugs through the good holes first. I've floated it several times on my "platoon boat" and never felt that I was at a disadvantage stopping to bank fish.
The north fork also has a motor restriction. You wanna whine about that too?

Nutnbutlip

I wish that life was that simple!!

To inform this board in "less words" or to make it short, "sweet and easy", for a few to read faster is probably not going to happen! Some things in your life will just take a little more time or a little longer to do.

I understand what you are saying, but life just isn't that easy! Reading will be the key to what you learn in this old world, be it by my writings, or by someone else's word. Take the time to read, and you will be far more ahead of the ones that don't!

Apparently both Salmo G and I both get a little long winded at times. But sometimes that is needed to express our full opinions on a subject or topics on this board. Sometimes it seems that the younger you are, the faster you want things to go. But for older folks like me, that is probably not going to happen. We care a lot about the resource and we both tend to want to explain why we feel the way that we do.

Informative issues often take a lot of time to write and answer, and I personally think that anyone who takes that much to write, has a story worth reading. Maybe you and others don't like to tell or inform the board as much as I do, and there is nothing wrong with that either.

Write what you want…and so will I!

PS, I don't take any offense to your comments. This is who I am.

Take care, and WRITE MORE!!

Cowlitzfisherman

fair enuf. i find your posts (and of course salmo's) interesting, but i also have 25,000 items in my inbox from the past two years (work-related primarily). i prefer to read about fishing and related issues on the bb, just think some of us would benefit from some straight to the point chat, where possible. unfortunately with the massive amount of reading that i do, i cannot spend as much time as i like hearing (reading) what you and others have to say about what i care about most, that is, fishing....

A couple of coastal rivers with theose regs ... the lower Elwah and the Hoh in the Park.

No homes there in the park so??????????

Just a couple more for ya

Use to fish the Willapa lot's.........the rule has been in effect since before I started fishing it, and that was 1969.........can remember walking lot's of miles of the river and never saw many others. Haven't fished it in 12-15 yrs. but remember some fine fishing in the lower parts of the river. Seems to me that "bobber and jig"....would be a great way to fish that river...

"Worse day sport fishing, still better than the best day working"

The boat ban is one of the reasons I enjoy fishing the Willipa. You can put the time in, hike to a hole and not worry about boats drifting through or getting beat to a slot. Not saying that sleds or DB's are bad, but its a nice change from other rivers in the area.

I agree with IHOOKEM. You'd do well to be carefull what you wish for..... I'd personally be just fine with similar boating restrictions being placed on even more of our rivers. If you want to float from hole to hole, then fine, I do it all the time on smaller rivers and streams, but the "no fishing from the boat" rule serves to put a damper on the conflict between bankies and boat fishermen.... Also, it serves to cut down on added pressure to some of these smaller rivers. Hell, the only reason some of these smaller rivers are worth a damn, is because they have float restrctions, no put ins or take outs, and very, very, limited public access. If you took one of these small rivers, I don't know, we can use the Willapa, since that's what this thread is about...... The Willapa river doesn't even get 250 Steelhead back to the Hatchery in an average year, so you take this small river and you make all of it and make it accessable to the public, opening up all the private lands and taking away any float restrictions. What do you think that's going to do to this or any small river? Take a look at any public access area on any river in this state...... They're Sh!t holes! Trash everywhere! Hell, keep these smaller rivers off limits to as many people as we can, that's what I say! I'll put my time in, get to know the land owners so that I can fish their lands, the who tell me "No" will just have to deal with me using the loopholes in the property laws to access their lands. I probably wouldn't feel quite this way if I hadn't seen first hand what happens when the general public catches on to a small river and how people will absolutely Sh!t all over the resource, keeping Native Fish, littering, cutting fences, etc. I;m sorry Cowfish, but I gotta disagree with you on this one...... Not every river in this state needs to be turned into another Cowlitz.