Washington outdoors

Flood 2006

2006-11-08T11:49:00.000-08:00

The "pineapple express" payed us another visit this year. After days of down pour the rivers where at epic flood levels. Since fishing was out of the question, I decided to take a drive. Here are the photos of what I saw........

2006-11-08T11:47:00.000-08:00

What a great day for a picnic, Oh look! No one is using the gazebo!

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This is the Sultan boat launch.

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A nice two point. I'll see ya next year!

2006-11-08T11:39:00.000-08:00

"Hey! It's wet out here!"

2006-11-08T11:37:00.000-08:00

The sign says it all.

2006-11-08T11:35:00.000-08:00

This the Parking lot at the Lewis Street boat launch. In the back out can see the bathrooms under water.

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A few chum salmon found the Parking lot to their liking.

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The Water was so high it was running over the roads.

2006-08-30T18:26:00.000-07:00

Me with a pair of kings from the shore at Hoodsport.

2006-08-30T18:25:00.000-07:00

Bill and Chase with a Hoodsport king.....

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Crappy pic of a Skokomish king.

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Yellow tail snapper.

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We had a cattle herron that waited for a free fish when we got back in,

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Needle fish.

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Not shure hwat he was, but he shure was pretty!

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Dad with a nice Mangrove Snapper.

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Pullled of to look at the water and spotted this little guy right next to the shore.

2006-08-30T18:13:00.000-07:00

First catch of the trip! Too bad I had to throw him back. I had the melted butter ready to go!

Oh boy!

2006-08-30T18:09:00.000-07:00

Well it was a wonder full trip to Florida with my pappy. Caught lot's of fish and saw lot's of neat things. Sorry about being a little lazy on posting some of my pics. I have been spending time with a wonderfull person I may tell you all about some time. Any way.... I have been fishing again around these parts and have had some great success so far. A nice king on the Skokomish and a few at Hoodsport this week. Bow hunting starts this weekend and I might have a few pics to post after that, In all life is great!

2006-07-12T12:24:00.000-07:00

The sunset from seven mile bridge. Over the Gulf of Mexico.

South bound!

2006-07-05T21:19:00.000-07:00

Well as I am typing this I'm sitting in the Seatac airport waiting for a flight to Atlanta GA. I will be connecting to a flight to Tampa Bay FL. We will then drive 6.5 hrs to Marathon in the Keys. Time to fish for anything that swims! We have rented a 22' Parker fore three days. This will be interesting!!!! My first attempt at "do it yourself" blue water. I will post more pics as the trips progresses.

Shad Mania 2006

2006-06-08T19:58:00.000-07:00

Big numbers of shad on the Columbia means HOT shad fishing. Carl, Jim and I made the pilgrimage down to the big "C" to wear our arms out with the silver acrobats called American shad. We left at 04:00 in the morning, 250 miles and four hour's later we found ourselves standing on the rocky shore below Bonneville dam. The sun was shining and the fish were biting! The only downside to the day was the wind. It never gave us a break! After six hours of non stop action we figure we had landed somewhere in the realm of 100 shad each. We kept quite a few for crab bait (best darn bait in the world!). The hot ticket was any thing chartreuse . Carl tried a little size 0 Dicknite spoon in pink and white. He couldn't keep them off. The shad are huge this year with many running in the 3-4 pound range. Looks like it will be another record run. Last year topped 6,000,000. That's allot of shad!

Jerry