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Other Activities => Fishing => Topic started by: hairyriverbottom on November 20, 2009, 08:40:24 PM

Title: Summer fun in the Chewuch
Post by: hairyriverbottom on November 20, 2009, 08:40:24 PM: Here is a nice buck metal head my 5 year old son and i had the pleasure of fighting and returning to the river...
Title: Re: Summer fun in the Chewuch
Post by: Thenewguy on November 20, 2009, 08:42:50 PM: fun stuff!
Title: Re: Summer fun in the Chewuch
Post by: hairyriverbottom on November 20, 2009, 08:46:13 PM: One of the proudest days I have had. He caught one about 3-4 pounds the next day and lost one about 12. Of course I didn't have the camera...
Title: Re: Summer fun in the Chewuch
Post by: BigGoonTuna on November 20, 2009, 09:19:27 PM: cool pic, but probably be a good thing to teach him a little better CNR fish handling ;)
Title: Re: Summer fun in the Chewuch
Post by: hairyriverbottom on November 20, 2009, 09:41:16 PM: The whole CNR thing is hard for a 5 year old to understand. Evething they catch they think they should be able to keep. After a few minutes of walking the fish up river, in the water, and telling him we have a picture to always remember him by did he finally say OK dad lets let him go. Even then he cried when the fish was gone. The fish was fine, but the memory and the lesson of returning a fish to the river even though it was the biggest he had ever seen was hopefully something he will remember...
Title: Re: Summer fun in the Chewuch
Post by: BigGoonTuna on November 21, 2009, 08:31:08 AM: i can remember being a kid and always throwing a fit when i had to throw the wild ones back(native steelhead release was kind of a new thing). wish i knew what i do now.
Title: Re: Summer fun in the Chewuch
Post by: boneaddict on November 21, 2009, 08:59:15 AM: Its all about growing up. Thats a good way to do it.
Title: Re: Summer fun in the Chewuch
Post by: Okano-gun on November 21, 2009, 07:21:45 PM: Thats a spring Chinook, not a steelhead.
Title: Re: Summer fun in the Chewuch
Post by: Okano-gun on November 21, 2009, 07:23:09 PM: It was probably spawning or really close to it.
Title: Re: Summer fun in the Chewuch
Post by: fishcrazy on November 21, 2009, 08:09:36 PM: Quote from: Okano-gun on November 21, 2009, 07:21:45 PM
Thats a spring Chinook, not a steelhead.

I believe you nailed it!! good eye. ;)

Are they endangered in that river?

Kris
Title: Re: Summer fun in the Chewuch
Post by: Okano-gun on November 21, 2009, 10:46:13 PM: Yep, they are endangered in the whole Upper Columbia Basin
Title: Re: Summer fun in the Chewuch
Post by: fishcrazy on November 22, 2009, 05:17:49 PM: Quote from: Okano-gun on November 21, 2009, 10:46:13 PM
Yep, they are endangered in the whole Upper Columbia Basin

:yike:

Just think I might have released that one early in the season near Kalama just so that kid could catch it way up river.
Love the smile on his face.

Kris