At the coast for a couple days and the perch bite has been nonexistent for me. But I love the fact that there is free seafood on every rock pile and tide pool :)
PS- anyone finding ripe huckleberries yet? The last I checked a couple weeks ago nothing was really ripe yet.
Got it right towards the end of legal fishing time. Buzzer beater :)
Some nice late spring/summer chinook around.
Yall have seen my posts. I have this fishery completely dialed. I would be willing to give up some very specific information, possibly even meet up out there and get you in the right spots, if you can put me on one or two good huckleberry patches in return.
If you have a good secret huckleberry spot on hood and you want to learn how and where to slay the brookies, send me a pm.
I hiked around a small creek on the north side of hood today and picked it apart. Couldn’t believe how many huge brookies were packed into this tiny creek. I found one deeper hole where every cast produced a bite for like 45 straight minutes. Then hit a south side creek on the way home and Caught another handful of brookies.
Also kept a big wild rainbow that swallowed my rooster tail, and wasn’t going to make it. That one hurt but at least I caught it in a stream where you’re allowed to keep a couple.
Also caught several large cutthroat lower in the system before getting higher upstream and finding brookies. Lost count around 20 and brought home a lot of fish.
Go get them
Went again today. Brookie bite was spotty but the rainbows were nonstop. I think I caught around 15 bows. They seem to appreciate the breathing room after removing some brookies. Today was the first time I ever encountered more than one rainbow in this stream.
Average size for bows was 12-14”.
Also caught this 16” beast of a brookie :)
Stream hopping near government camp
No limit in streams, detrimental to the native cutthroat, and the best eating freshwater fish by far.
Brought home about 25 yesterday, good average size. Had one on the bank that was pushing 20” but the hook popped out before I could grab it 🥲
Go get them
I found this while wading pretty far up a fairly remote creek in northwest Oregon. I was there fishing, I don’t know much about rocks. Is this a good find?
I would like to get some feedback and bounce ideas off some people but I feel a bit wary of posting my lyrics publicly on the internet because of plagiarism. Not that I think I’m that great of a writer, but it could happen.
Let me know if you’d want to trade songs in the dms. My genre is psychadelic with a lot of country in the lyric influence. But I’m interested in reading just about anything.
I brought home 46 today… best eating freshwater fish in the world in case you didn’t know. Go get them, they’re infesting mt. Hood and severely outcompeting the native cutthroat and rainbows.
We are a new three piece psych rock band from Portland. We are all in our early 20’s. We are ready to start playing some shows. Please message me if you need a band to fill out a bill. We are willing to play anywhere, and with anyone.
We all have plenty of experience gigging. I assure you we will show up on time, be professional, look presentable, and not get blackout drunk.
Here are some rough recordings from practice. All original songs
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1PncCuSkdRM\_CaY5Y7cOzLWBWZVdx5hdO