Cold enough for you?

[seabob4]

Well, Bill, sorry, but I'm in shorts and tennies...

Hey, I was born and raised in Chicago, 21 years.  I don't care if I ever see snow again!!

[T Race]

Amazed how good the fishing was today in the cold with a flat line tide.
I don't know how people in the winter up north handle having to wear so many clothes to go outside.
Guess they just don't boat in winter. If I would have ended up in the water today with so many layers on I would have hit the bottom before I could undress to swim and bob to the surface.
Capt Matt

Had to take the gloves off for photo
Bill

Hey Bill,

I must have missed this post.  

Capital !!  Most excellent, well done !  

How deep, and what do they like up there ?   Hootchies ?  or "bait in the clothes pin thingy" (I have a sh!tbag full of salmon fishing

crap that I don't use, I should mail it all to you.  I gave up on salmon a few years ago, was just wasting too much time.  I think your

population numbers are much higher than down here).

But that sure is a good fighting and eating fish.  :tongue:  

Teach us all your favorite way to prepare it... I'll bet you have just a "little bit" of experience with these beautiful fish.

Thanks for the great post and photos, T.

[John Jones]

I don't care if I ever see snow again!!

My daughter just can't understand why I will not come up there and go ice fishing with the grandkids.  

She was born in Montana and maybe some of that stuck with her but I think she secretly misses things like the last two mornings it was 70-71 at sunrise here.

[bondobill]

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Hey Bill,

I must have missed this post.  

Capital !!  Most excellent, well done !  

How deep, and what do they like up there ?   Hootchies ?  or "bait in the clothes pin thingy" (I have a sh!tbag full of salmon fishing

crap that I don't use, I should mail it all to you.  I gave up on salmon a few years ago, was just wasting too much time.  I think your

population numbers are much higher than down here).

But that sure is a good fighting and eating fish.  :tongue:  

Teach us all your favorite way to prepare it... I'll bet you have just a "little bit" of experience with these beautiful fish.

Thanks for the great post and photos, T.

Hey T.
They actually fish for salmon in Cali,..... oh ya now I remember, I read  somewhere that some of the salmon up here turn left  when  leaving their home stream, rumor is the ones that turn left ain't the sharpest tool in the shed.
I would guess fishing for salmon in Cali is probably a little different than how we fish up here.
We run down riggers because of the depth we are fishing and the strength of the tide, tides up here can vary from 3' up to 12'  shift.....usually fish  90' to 150' of water. This time of year we tend to drag our balls in the mud .......that's down rigger balls on the bottom  .....  winter Chinook tend to feed close to the bottom. I am kinda stubborn, I fish strictly bait, either herring or anchovies in a bait holder, I never run a flasher on my line.

Got quite a few ways I prepare it for table fare, mostly BBQ,
trouble is I never write anything down, most of it is trial and error over the years.  Will try to sit down and put some recipes on paper one of these days.

Bill