Butt head on the Wynoochee

[TheHunt]

I was walking out today and someone said there was a fish in the brush.  I walked down and sure enough someone opened up the fish just enough to see that it was a buck and they tossed it in the brush.  It was about an 8 lb steelhead.  What is wrong with people?  They tossed it yesterday.  There was nothing a LEO could do... 

[hollymaster]

  Wth is wrong with people? Bucks taste better! 

[7mmfan]

guess they only wanted the eggs? Yeah I agree for table fare, bucks are far better. If it was cold outside, I'd take that sucker home and filet it and give it the old sniff test. There is a good chance that fish was still edible   

[huntnphool]

Rookie steelheader, should have been easy to tell when he got it in and could have let it go.

[7mmfan]

Rookie steelheader, should have been easy to tell when he got it in and could have let it go.

  Agree completely with that. My guess anyone who is so hell bent on killing a fish for the eggs probably doesn't give much thought to what they are when they catch them either. We all know that the only thing that catches steelhead are eggs   

[Damnimissed]

Well, how'd you do? I bank fished it today too.

[TheHunt]

Well, how'd you do? I bank fished it today too.

I only got two hits.   Out of about 20 people on the bank as a whole the group got one fish. 

But the natives pulled their nets the day before.  I was kind of stupid as I was seeing a lot of rigs putting in at black creek.  WHICH should have fished much lower as the fish were low in the system.  Oh well, I should have known...  Stupid me!!! 

Holy smokes did it rain. LOL!!!   I really rained the entire time I was down there.    I still had fun with the exception of that fish on in the brush. 

[Damnimissed]

Yes, it did rain all day...I should've made one cast and went home because I banged a fish on the first cast of the morning and didn't touch anything the rest of the day. I just knew that was gonna happen, it always seems to work that way lol.  Speaking of butt heads, I had a few boats side-drift right through the hole I'm standing in  but they didn't escape without me "nicely" explaining drift boat etiquette. I also had some kind words for the boat with bobber/bead "fly" guys who hooked a fish in the tailout I had just started swinging into. I'm really starting to lose patience with jerks like that.

[TheHunt]

Dude, 1/3 of the Wynoochee boaters are that way. 

I just cast in their stuff.  I use some heavy line so I will win most of those fights.

[JimmyHoffa]

Surf rod with 100# braid will take care of most of it.

[BigGoonTuna]

...annnnd that's why i rarely fish that river in the winter any more.  hell, the pressure is so intense now that it's made it a waste of time to fish up by the dam, all the fish get picked off first.

sadly, not a whole lot of other good options around these days, i'm finding myself doing a lot less winter steelheading overall.  the fish you found in the bushes was probably a victim of the "all hatchery fish must die" mantra that's become vogue over the past several years.  if you don't want it, give it to someone, or put it back for someone else to catch.

[Crunchy]

Im not much for the taste of steelhead, catch and release only for me.  That being said, wynoch is one of the better steelhead rivers around these parts.

[Bofire]

  It is just not fun to go fish when you know you'll have to deal with butt heads.
Carl

[PolarBear]

It seems that "butt heads" are becoming the norm wherever you fish.  Buoy 10, the Nooch, Hump, Skookumchuck etc.  I will never fish the Cowlitz again due to all the dirt bag fishermen.  Whenever we drift around bankies, we always pull our gear up way ahead of them and don't drop back it until we are well past.  There is plenty of water to fish without being a turd!

[pilebuck]

Thanx this plunker give ya