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Other Activities => Fishing => Topic started by: 270Shooter on July 21, 2010, 09:47:37 PM

Title: Mamo Squawfish
Post by: 270Shooter on July 21, 2010, 09:47:37 PM: The squaw fish must like me or something, seems like I catch them everywhere I go. I caught this one on the columbia while fishing for smallmouth last sunday. I didn't even know they got this big. :chuckle:
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Title: Re: Mamo Squawfish
Post by: DOUBLELUNG on July 21, 2010, 09:49:51 PM: Please tell me you killed it!
Title: Re: Mamo Squawfish
Post by: 270Shooter on July 21, 2010, 09:50:43 PM: Quote from: DOUBLELUNG on July 21, 2010, 09:49:51 PM
Please tell me you killed it!
yep I killed it
Title: Re: Mamo Squawfish
Post by: Thenewguy on July 21, 2010, 09:52:46 PM: It sounds like they are invasive? sorry i am on the wet side
Title: Re: Mamo Squawfish
Post by: 270Shooter on July 21, 2010, 09:54:20 PM: Quote from: Thenewguy on July 21, 2010, 09:52:46 PM
It sounds like they are invasive? sorry i am on the wet side
From what I understand they are native, but their populations have exploded because of the dams on the big C.
Title: Re: Mamo Squawfish
Post by: DOUBLELUNG on July 21, 2010, 09:58:13 PM: Quote from: 270Shooter on July 21, 2010, 09:54:20 PM
Quote from: Thenewguy on July 21, 2010, 09:52:46 PM
It sounds like they are invasive? sorry i am on the wet side
From what I understand they are native, but their populations have exploded because of the dams on the big C.
Good job! They are native, but severely predate smolts, dams have a lot to do with it.
Title: Re: Mamo Squawfish
Post by: h2ofowlr on July 21, 2010, 10:18:38 PM: I caught a 20' one that was tagged several years back. I think that one earned me $120 or so dollars on that one. What bait were they hitting for you?
Title: Re: Mamo Squawfish
Post by: sirfunkeybut on July 21, 2010, 11:04:33 PM: lol "wet" side :cryriver:

Quote from: Thenewguy on July 21, 2010, 09:52:46 PM
It sounds like they are invasive? sorry i am on the wet side
Title: Re: Mamo Squawfish
Post by: 270Shooter on July 22, 2010, 08:59:17 AM: I only caught the one, but I caught him on a 3 inch grub smoke with red sparkles
Title: Re: Mamo Squawfish
Post by: Dustin07 on July 22, 2010, 11:34:19 AM: I've heard a lot of people tell me they pull them out of wet side rivers.

Quote from: h2ofowlr on July 21, 2010, 10:18:38 PM
I caught a 20' one that was tagged several years back. I think that one earned me $120 or so dollars on that one. What bait were they hitting for you?

that thing should be in a museum. that's about twice the size of the largest sturgeon i've seen. :P
Title: Re: Mamo Squawfish
Post by: carpsniperg2 on July 22, 2010, 11:50:05 AM: Quote from: h2ofowlr on July 21, 2010, 10:18:38 PM
I caught a 20' one that was tagged several years back. I think that one earned me $120 or so dollars on that one. What bait were they hitting for you?

dam h20fowlr for 20' i would of thought you would of got more then 120.00 :chuckle: :P sounds like they paid you for a 20"er

they are bad there are turn in points all along the columbia river they are bad news for the salmon them and dam seals >:(
Title: Re: Mamo Squawfish
Post by: Curly on July 22, 2010, 12:14:01 PM: Quote from: Dustin07 on July 22, 2010, 11:34:19 AM
I've heard a lot of people tell me they pull them out of wet side rivers.

They are in plenty of rivers over here. There are check stations for squawfish along the Columbia as far west as Cathlamet that I know of. They are in any of the rivers tributary to the Columbia.......(Cowlitz, Lewis, Kalama, etc.). They're in the Chehalis, Satsop, and Wynoochee too. They are the biggest problem in the rivers with dams since they make picking off smolts fairly easy for them.
Title: Re: Mamo Squawfish
Post by: haus on July 22, 2010, 12:20:26 PM: The native species is the debil!.....not the carp or bass or walleye or channel catfish :chuckle:

yes I've read the studies, I realize squawfish eats the most smolts, but still....
Title: Re: Mamo Squawfish
Post by: Curly on July 22, 2010, 12:34:09 PM: Quote from: haus on July 22, 2010, 12:20:26 PM
The native species is the debil!.....not the carp or bass or walleye or channel catfish :chuckle:

yes I've read the studies, I realize squawfish eats the most smolts, but still....

Well, if they tasted good and/or weren't so damned slimey and ugly....maybe they'd have different status. :dunno: :chuckle: :chuckle:
Title: Re: Mamo Squawfish
Post by: haus on July 22, 2010, 12:37:52 PM: :lol4: too true. Plus they fight worse than a dogfish, half the time they freeze up and you just drag them in.
Title: Re: Mamo Squawfish
Post by: Curly on July 22, 2010, 12:42:09 PM: They are fun to catch though when you can get paid for them. I like when you can go fishing on the Columbia for some other species and then catch enough squaws to help pay for gas.
Title: Re: Mamo Squawfish
Post by: 270Shooter on July 22, 2010, 01:54:22 PM: Yeah they dont fight much at all, a couple shakes then they are done... Also they smell really wierd, and are kinda slimey :chuckle: :chuckle:
Title: Re: Mamo Squawfish
Post by: engelwood on July 22, 2010, 02:22:27 PM: I made a livin' one summer in high school catching squaw fish on the columbia with the bounty they have. Got up to $8 a fish real quick and we would catch 30+ a night. That is a decent sized one, but trust me, they get quite a bit bigger and fatter than that.
Title: Re: Mamo Squawfish
Post by: carpsniperg2 on July 22, 2010, 02:46:10 PM: Quote from: 270Shooter on July 22, 2010, 01:54:22 PM
Yeah they dont fight much at all, a couple shakes then they are done... Also they smell really wierd, and are kinda slimey :chuckle: :chuckle:

r you talking about fish or some of the women out there :chuckle: :IBCOOL: :chuckle: