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[Evan in CA]

😮 Just been watching updates on your fires! Saw drone footage flying over houses after houses burnt to the ground in suburban areas, blocks of houses wiped out! We get bad fires here but iv never seen anything like this here in my life.
How on earth did suburbs, not little bush towns living amongst forest and bush like here that get burnt, but such residential large town areas go up like that!?
Hope people here and their families and friends are ok!

Hi chilli, it’s crazy to see neighborhoods that are miles away from the mountains catch on fire like that I’ve never seen anything like that before. I know one coworker lost his house he grew up in. It’s sad.

 

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[releventchair]

Good morning everyone

Evan!!!

 

[Surf_Pirate]

Good morning everyone

there he is

 

[Surf_Pirate]

As the locals here say: “It’s as cold as the night Crissie Wright came ashore”

Schooner Crissie Wright ~ 11 January 1886

Beaufort, NC Post Office Mural Portraying Crissie Wright by Simka Simkhovitch (1939) Found at Havelock News It is said that Crissie ...

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[newnan man]

I worked with a guy who used to say:
"It's colder than a well diggers ass in Alaska."

 

[Oregon Viking]

spinning rod and reel or fly rod?

Spinning rod for me. Catching a Steelhead is like lightning strikin' your pole.
Only thing fights harder is our striped bass.

 

[pepperj]

Spinning rod for me. Catching a Steelhead is like lightning strikin' your pole.
Only thing fights harder is our striped bass.

I still remember my father hooking up with a big one.
Worked that fish until it burnt the bearings out of the reel assembly.

We went home, changed reels, went back to the river. His first cast he hooked it again, this time it through or around a deadhead tree, and snapped the line.

 

[Chilli]

I still remember my father hooking up with a big one.
Worked that fish until it burnt the bearings out of the reel assembly.

We went home, changed reels, went back to the river. His first cast he hooked it again, this time it through or around a deadhead tree, and snapped the line.

It seriously sucks losing a big fish. I hooked and fought a 5 foot plus long King Salmon in Yeppoon when I lived there for easy 45 minutes. It stripped my line 8kg 350 meters down to the last several metres, I thought ok this or nothing and grabbed the spool stopping it. The mono must have stretched several more meters and it turned. From all that distance I could see its tail and dorsal fin cutting the water surface. For a kingy it was a beast. I finally was winning, more runs but less each time till finally i have it near the rocks almost beat.
Im "you gotta be I kidding me this things gonna make the local papers".
Its beat now, I go to reach down with my big long handle net and for crying out loud, the net caught on a button of my shirt, my movement as I desperately tried to free it spooked it and it gave one last run straight around a nearby moored yachts anchoring chain.
😭
Was the catch of a lifetime, lost by a damn .....button.
I felt your fathers pain with that one. Best fish iv ever lost.

 

[oldmxrat]

 

[Surf_Pirate]

Spinning rod for me. Catching a Steelhead is like lightning strikin' your pole.
Only thing fights harder is our striped bass.

Now i know what to bring when I visit

 

[pepperj]

It seriously sucks losing a big fish. I hooked and fought a 5 foot plus long King Salmon in Yeppoon when I lived there for easy 45 minutes. It stripped my line 8kg 350 meters down to the last several metres, I thought ok this or nothing and grabbed the spool stopping it. The mono must have stretched several more meters and it turned. From all that distance I could see its tail and dorsal fin cutting the water surface. For a kingy it was a beast. I finally was winning, more runs but less each time till finally i have it near the rocks almost beat.
Im "you gotta be I kidding me this things gonna make the local papers".
Its beat now, I go to reach down with my big long handle net and for crying out loud, the net caught on a button of my shirt, my movement as I desperately tried to free it spooked it and it gave one last run straight around a nearby moored yachts anchoring chain.
😭
Was the catch of a lifetime, lost by a damn .....button.
I felt your fathers pain with that one. Best fish iv ever lost.

My father built a 12ft plywood boat. 3hp old Evinrude motor. Had to bail water with a tobacco tin till the wood was swollen up.
My older sibling sat in the bow, I sat in the middle and was holding a trolling rod.
I was preschool age, hanging on with a death grip holding the steady pull of the Willow Leaf troll.
I still recall the line being taken off the spool, the drag was set where it clicked the line going off and it sung.
My father was telling me to set the hook, tighten the drag, I placed my fingers on the drum.
The line burnt a stinging cut, and I handed everything to my father's waiting hands.
The fish got off, but it was a good memory for years the big one that got away.
Maybe I'll cast a few times this year, see if one bites.

 

[Surf_Pirate]

Am I wrong, but shouldn't it be some kind of mandatory that a T-net entry member have to list his or her state of location on their profile? Yes I suppose you could lie, but there should be more to becoming a part of this forum than what it is....

 

[Surf_Pirate]

Spinning rod for me. Catching a Steelhead is like lightning strikin' your pole.
Only thing fights harder is our striped bass.

Again I haven't produced my West coast pics from yesteryear.... But I still remember the fun and beauty of fishing your beautiful land. Have driven through a few of the back country in and out the Shastas and Rainiers, hitting a few lakes rivers and stocked ponds along the way. St. Helens, Hood, and northern Oregon, and I was just in my 20's fresh out of the academy. From trips in Vancouver BC and that complete coastline is just truly breathtaking Vike. Guided around at that time by an older merchant marine buddy who knew the areas, we took the weekends to fish fast and hard. A place and time I'll never forget and swore to return to.
I'l share this quick sea story...... whilst on a cable ship just off the Washington coastline, burying fiber optic to Japan, one late evening we were dead in the water, momentarily bored, we decided to throw a line off the port side to see what was biting. Not long we had landed a feisty little 7 or 8' black tip. Eventually with some help, we hoisted that sucker into the side door with most the crew gazing at the catch. Now it was convincing the Chief Steward to cook up shark steaks and feed the crew the next night, which we did. Definitely some fun times had at sea!

 

[Oregon Viking]

The guides are starting to get in the way... too damn many of them! We have 7 rivers within 60 miles a few of them famous. Growing up here I fish "non tourist" areas.

Fish pics.

Chetco River Fishing Guide | Ironhead Guide Service

Chetco River Steelhead Fishing is as good as it gets, there is more spawning habitat per mile on the Chetco River than any other river

ironheadguideservice.com

 

[Chilli]

My father built a 12ft plywood boat. 3hp old Evinrude motor. Had to bail water with a tobacco tin till the wood was swollen up.
My older sibling sat in the bow, I sat in the middle and was holding a trolling rod.
I was preschool age, hanging on with a death grip holding the steady pull of the Willow Leaf troll.
I still recall the line being taken off the spool, the drag was set where it clicked the line going off and it sung.
My father was telling me to set the hook, tighten the drag, I placed my fingers on the drum.
The line burnt a stinging cut, and I handed everything to my father's waiting hands.
The fish got off, but it was a good memory for years the big one that got away.
Maybe I'll cast a few times this year, see if one bites.

😁 They are good memories aren't they. You know what, I think us fishermen remember longer the monsters that beat us rather than the goodies we landed. I think that's what makes those beasts so legendary. Not just legend but real legendary memories. Yeah I know others non fishers joke about us as "ha ha the one that got away!" But what they don't get is you battled a beast. And that's why they get that big and get away! They don't get that big because they are easy to catch! Im just glad I got to fight a lot of monsters and experience it. Id prefer memories like that than easy boat chases the catch and all you do as it backs up and wind. Hah, how many kids catch behemoth Marlins and Sharks here and its the boat and skipper that really caught them. Land based, no reverse "wind...wind...wind.."
I often see so called records broken here by under 12 kids and women catching Leviathans, but it was the boat, not them.
No skill, just "wind...wind....stop..... wait....wind wind.... stop. Then the boat crew gaffs it, yay, yay I caught this monster!" Pfffft. No you didn't you were just the winder. No brag for that in my opinion.

 

[Chilli]

Am I wrong, but shouldn't it be some kind of mandatory that a T-net entry member have to list his or her state of location on their profile? Yes I suppose you could lie, but there should be more to becoming a part of this forum than what it is....

Im in Oz, we're all crazy whatever state we're in. Listing wont help to profile us!

 

[Chilli]

 

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G morn T Crew.

 

[robertk]

Good morning all. Hoping the snow will melt a bit today. We had 6" total.

Looking down the driveway (same area as the ice photo the other day), then a couple of shots of the yard. Brrr...

 

[ToddsPoint]

Good morning! ☕️ We got another 3” on top of our 8”. I think I’ll do another driveway plow today. 🚜