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« Last post by Carwash on December 20, 2025, 03:04:30 PM »
Hey team,
I'm planning my 2026 season and have been considering an island hunt for a while now. I would like to talk with someone who has done the hunt to learn more about logistics and access. Any help would be appreciated.
V/R,
Carwash
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« Last post by camp cook on December 20, 2025, 02:44:23 PM »
Great story and Buck, Congratulations!!
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The burbot study was a long time ago. I helped set traps, document locations and then go check traps. We only caughta few on drop rigs made feom weight filled pvc pipes with hooks pop riveted down the pipe
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« Last post by metlhead on December 20, 2025, 12:04:28 PM »
Proud pup
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Congrats on a great, cool buck!!
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« Last post by spookgus on December 20, 2025, 10:13:12 AM »
When it’s salmon season on the Columbia, I try to get in line at the launch by 4am. 2-4 hour drive typically. In my experience the guides have already launched and are tied up out of the way. The launch that I used the most down there is still owned by me but is off limits to me now.
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« Last post by Loup Loup on December 20, 2025, 10:08:51 AM »
Reading Humptulips post, which I take he forwarded from WDFW about sample collection.
They adderess us as Recreational trappers. And sign off with a Recreational trappers contact addy.
Since when is trapping in Washington labeled as recreational?
A trapping license is a commercial license. Same as commercial fishing or taxidermy.
Even though some trappers may trap for other reasons, trapping as a whole is a commercial activity.
To label trapping as recreational belittles the trade, and makes us vulnerable to having trapping taken away as they will label it as sport.
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« Last post by buglebuster on December 20, 2025, 09:23:16 AM »
Its mind boggling the County hasn’t expanded the parking at Drano. They goffed by making it too small to start with.
Right! Angle the parking spots, add another launch, maybe some lights at the launch. It wouldn’t be too much work
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« Last post by pd on December 20, 2025, 09:07:27 AM »
Thanks, Bruce
That is a great project, one that would really add to our collective knowledge. I hope that you find trappers who are willing to support her.
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At the policy level, I agree. The liberal governors have ensured that the commission members are selected to appease the anti hunting and fishing voters of the state, which sadly, is the majority. They know which side of the bread gets buttered.
Between my wife and I, we had 60 years of doing our best to produce fish for this state, only to watch policy decisions that did its best to derail any effort to increase harvest opportunities. Hence our decision to head east, and try to forget how bad it is there now…..
What did you do for the state??
We both worked at and managed hatcheries all over the state. I started in 1990 with the department of Fisheries, loved through the merger(which was sold as a cost saving scheme, that failed miserably) and ended up managing hatcheries for a Tribe and a PUD. The wife did basically the same, but ended up managing a resident fish hatchery for a Tribe, and managed the program that stocked Rufus Woods as well.
Ive volunteered at Cedar River, Issaquah, Rock Island, Rocky Reach, Chelan, Wells and Similkamene. And done fish studies with the Feds on Burbot in Lake Chelan.
My opinions are always ignorant. Forgot about helping raise fingerlings on a creek between Monroe and Sultan in 1991.
Could you start a separate post about the burbot?
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