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Welcome to our Washington Videos section!
More videos for you to download from our
southern locale!
Remember that on most media players,
you can right click on the movie and change the size of the movie to the one that you
prefer ... although, don't go too big on the lower quality, small screen options ...
you'll feel like you're looking at a moving checkerboard!!
We hope to add a few more in this
section, as well as our others, very soon!
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A wild hen steelhead being inserted into a transport
tube for her journey to the Snider Creek hatchery facility on the
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The Giggles
are contagious when running some of the
wilder stretches of river on the Olympic Peninsula. Here, Kent and Joe get a little wet in
the rollers at the base of the Sol Duc Hatchery diversion dam. They still can't decide
which was more fun ... the fishing, or the boat ride!
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Decisions, decisions.
Our third double header of the
day during the '98 fall salmon season on Washington's Quillayute River. In
this case, both fish are silver (coho) salmon. Bob is just done playing his
to the boat, Richard is working on his. We've decided we're going to keep
one more for the barbeque. The decision is which is better barbeque fare
.... you'll see how Bob decides!
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A
ride through Haystack
Technically not
one of the more difficult area rapids to
run, Haystack (some call it Sawdust) Rapid in the Bear Creek stretch of the Washington's
Sol Duc River is always a fun ride with its big rollers nipping at the bow of the boat.
Color commentary provided by the 'Chin Brothers'. This clip gives you a good idea of what
a ride through many of dozens of rapids of the area's rivers is like.
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Getting Wet
is part of the game when we
want it to be. Although not part of a rapid, the rollers off of the rock
just above Spring Creek at the Sol Duc Hatchery provides a wet blast for
those in the front of the boat.
Taped on a day when the river
was too high to fish, we just chose to go for a little joyriding! Bob and
Luke go over it first, followed by Kim and Corey in the Puma, an inflatable
that we often use in very low water conditions when certain stretches of the
rivers are too low to float a driftboat.
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That was Fun!
... is the cry of the 'Wavegals' in another Bear Creek Rapid. Shot the same day as the
video above, the high water flows made fishing impossible, but a wet, giggly ride a
reality. The flow on this day was approximately '22 boards' ... about two feet two high
for fishing.
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Oh @%#!'
... is Luke's cry right here.
One last video from our playday! Just some big rollers in the Sol Duc's Hatchery Run, you get to see all three of the boats doing the whoop-d-do's in the
waves created by the rocks that are usually a navigation hazard when negotiating these
rapids at fishable flows.
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Salmon on the Run
Shot just above the mouth of the Sol Duc River in the fall of
2002, both kings and coho salmon respond to the first rain of the fall by
piling into the river. This scene played out for two days at nearly this
sort of pace!
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Here they come, there
they go
Shot the same day as the video above. The
fall rains also triggered masses of summer and some early fall coho to
continue up the Sol Duc River. This was shot from Bob & Fishgal's deck.
This too, lasted for several days and seemed like an endless train of
fish!
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A Fisheye View Two videos to
choose from here, a short and long version. Shot the same days as the
videos above in Fall, 2002. This video give a little different perspective
of the train of fish as we placed an Atlantis underwater camera in the
river below our house and watched the fish pile by.
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Catch and
Release Living up to our company's established
policy of releasing all wild steelhead, a short video of one going back
where she belongs. View the last moments of the battle, a tailing, a
couple of quick pics (notice the request to dip the fish for a few moments
inbetween shots), and an easy release. You even get to see a rude boater
that floated over the top of the holding water at the end of shot :)
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We plan on shooting a little more this winter and perhaps
we'll dig some older ones to transfer over as well! |
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More Video Pages Links
Alaska Videos -
Halibut fishing, salmon fishing, porpoises, clamming, boat launch
videos, underwater footage of black rockfish, TV show footage and
lots more!
Instructional &
Miscellaneous Videos - How to put a
sardine / herring wrap on a kwikfish, several videos showing how to
tie useful knots, wildly leaping summer steelhead on a fly, Bob in a
less than controlled fight with a fish & more!
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