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Tell us more. How did you catch it? What bait (herring?)? How deep?
Trolling?
How fast? Come on, fill us in with the nitty-gritty details. Just where
were
you, so when I go visit Chuck and he takes me for a ride, we can go
there and
maybe drag a line or two.
--
John H

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To see what's open when you plan to come out, Google up Washington
State Sportfishing rules. I can take you fishing in Area 10. My boat
will be in Canada from the first of August through the middle of
September, (but I'll only be there about two weeks of that time and
will fly home to tend to business for a few week interval).


I think they closed all of the Columbia to salmon fishing. So area 10 is
out. Too many fur bags. They are now eating the sturgeon

Bill McKee wrote:
wrote in message
ups.com...
Tell us more. How did you catch it? What bait (herring?)? How deep?
Trolling?
How fast? Come on, fill us in with the nitty-gritty details. Just
where
were
you, so when I go visit Chuck and he takes me for a ride, we can go
there and
maybe drag a line or two.
--
John H

*********

To see what's open when you plan to come out, Google up Washington
State Sportfishing rules. I can take you fishing in Area 10. My
boat
will be in Canada from the first of August through the middle of
September, (but I'll only be there about two weeks of that time and
will fly home to tend to business for a few week interval).


I think they closed all of the Columbia to salmon fishing. So area
10 is
out. Too many fur bags. They are now eating the sturgeon

************

Did I screw up? I thought central Puget Sound was Area 10.

The "endangered" sea lions have become a regional joke. There may be
more sea lions around now than there were when people of European
ancestry began immigrating here (in any real numbers) in the 1850s- I
wouldn't be surprised. They're everywhere, they weigh hundreds and
hundreds of pounds and all that blubber has to be
fueled with fish. :-( Lesson learned, once we screw up the balance of
nature it becomes almost impossible to restore it.

wrote in message
ups.com...

Bill McKee wrote:
wrote in message
ups.com...
Tell us more. How did you catch it? What bait (herring?)? How deep?
Trolling?
How fast? Come on, fill us in with the nitty-gritty details. Just
where
were
you, so when I go visit Chuck and he takes me for a ride, we can go
there and
maybe drag a line or two.
--
John H

*********

To see what's open when you plan to come out, Google up Washington
State Sportfishing rules. I can take you fishing in Area 10. My
boat
will be in Canada from the first of August through the middle of
September, (but I'll only be there about two weeks of that time and
will fly home to tend to business for a few week interval).


I think they closed all of the Columbia to salmon fishing. So area
10 is
out. Too many fur bags. They are now eating the sturgeon

************

Did I screw up? I thought central Puget Sound was Area 10.

The "endangered" sea lions have become a regional joke. There may be
more sea lions around now than there were when people of European
ancestry began immigrating here (in any real numbers) in the 1850s- I
wouldn't be surprised. They're everywhere, they weigh hundreds and
hundreds of pounds and all that blubber has to be
fueled with fish. :-( Lesson learned, once we screw up the balance of
nature it becomes almost impossible to restore it.


I thought area 10 was the mouth of the Columbia. As to the sea lions, yes
there are more than ever. Since we have kept there major predator away from
the rookeries, they have exploded in number. Major predator was the
coyote. Preyed on the pups.

I thought area 10 was the mouth of the Columbia. As to the sea lions,
yes
there are more than ever. Since we have kept there major predator away
from
the rookeries, they have exploded in number. Major predator was the
coyote. Preyed on the pups.

Reply

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And Orcas. (Killer whales). Orcas think that nothing beats a fresh Sea
Lion at breakfast.

wrote in message
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I thought area 10 was the mouth of the Columbia. As to the sea lions,
yes
there are more than ever. Since we have kept there major predator away
from
the rookeries, they have exploded in number. Major predator was the
coyote. Preyed on the pups.

Reply

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And Orcas. (Killer whales). Orcas think that nothing beats a fresh Sea
Lion at breakfast.


They also like to play with them. Catch that is. Friend was in the CG on a
cutter coming back down the inside passage and got photos of a pod of orcas
playing catch with a big sea lion. They would toss the sea lion 20' in the
air he stated. But the coyotes got lots more sea lions than orca's me
thinks.

Bill McKee wrote:

I think they closed all of the Columbia to salmon fishing. So area 10 is
out. Too many fur bags. They are now eating the sturgeon


A sea lion took a spring chinook away from my wife a few weeks ago on
Multnomah channel. I broke it off without giving chase but then
wondered if I could have harassed it into letting go. That notion was
dispelled the next week after watching a boat chase one around for about
20 minutes. The damn thing still got away with his fish.

The Columbia spring chinook run is coming in under 30% of expected but
the Willamette run is about as predicted. One major difference is the
series of dams on the Columbia. When these fish migrated out in '02 we
had low flows and they held back water for power generation. Fish need
rivers to flow.

-rick-

ps. I think you mean bouy 10 (at the Columbia mouth).

"-rick-" wrote in message
...
Bill McKee wrote:

I think they closed all of the Columbia to salmon fishing. So area 10 is
out. Too many fur bags. They are now eating the sturgeon


A sea lion took a spring chinook away from my wife a few weeks ago on
Multnomah channel. I broke it off without giving chase but then wondered
if I could have harassed it into letting go. That notion was dispelled the
next week after watching a boat chase one around for about 20 minutes. The
damn thing still got away with his fish.

The Columbia spring chinook run is coming in under 30% of expected but the
Willamette run is about as predicted. One major difference is the series
of dams on the Columbia. When these fish migrated out in '02 we had low
flows and they held back water for power generation. Fish need rivers to
flow.

-rick-

ps. I think you mean bouy 10 (at the Columbia mouth).

Yes, is the reason for my confusion. As to Furbags, we are losing lots of
salmon to them. Last year, a commercial guy I know, said he lost about 50%
of his fish. I see they are now going after sturgeon as they have decimated
all the rest of the endangered species fish.

Bill McKee wrote:

Yes, is the reason for my confusion. As to Furbags, we are losing lots of
salmon to them. Last year, a commercial guy I know, said he lost about 50%
of his fish. I see they are now going after sturgeon as they have decimated
all the rest of the endangered species fish.

A few of them here learned to climb the fish ladder at Bonneville dam.
They've also been chowing down on the sturgeon. The fish and wildlife
guys were harassing them with fireworks, etc. but I don't think it
helped. There's even been talk of allowing native americans to kill some
but it probably won't happen.

-rick-

"-rick-" wrote in message
...
Bill McKee wrote:

Yes, is the reason for my confusion. As to Furbags, we are losing lots
of salmon to them. Last year, a commercial guy I know, said he lost
about 50% of his fish. I see they are now going after sturgeon as they
have decimated all the rest of the endangered species fish.

A few of them here learned to climb the fish ladder at Bonneville dam.
They've also been chowing down on the sturgeon. The fish and wildlife guys
were harassing them with fireworks, etc. but I don't think it helped.
There's even been talk of allowing native americans to kill some but it
probably won't happen.

-rick-

I understand it took at least weeks before the F&G guys could get permission
to harass the furbags.

We had a sea lion infestation at the Ballard locks in Seattle. They
lazy blubberbutts would lounge around at the base of the fish ladder
and pick off salmon as if they were on a smorgasbord.

Fireworks- didn't work long term.
Phony fiberglass Orca- scared away all the phony fiberglass sea lions
Hauling the sea lions a few hundred miles away and realeasing them-
they were all the hungrier after their long swim back.

What has worked: Mooring a barge in Shilshole Bay, not far from the
locks. The barge has fencing on three sides, and a radio controlled
trap door on the fourth side. During the portions of the year when the
salmon aren't running, this trap door is left open all the time and the
sea lions get used to lounging on the barge. When the salmon are
running, they wait until the sea lions have all hauled out onto the
barge to sun- and then trip the trap door. Saves the salmon, but the
downside is that the sea lions bark and yap almost endlessly until they
are let out again- and that can be several days or more depending on
the run. Just try to sleep on your boat at the marina with 6 p-o'd sea
lions sounding off all night!