In my semi-retirement and having my days free I've been able to explore Oregon's rivers and fish with my son. Today was my third trip since I've gotten my license. First two trips I came up bupkiss...nada..today I fished for smallmouth bass on the Umpqua about an hour and a half south west of my home not far from Reedsport..Caught the biggest bass my son's ever seen caught..don't have a weight on it but it almost snapped my trout pole in half...my son netted it and thought it was a salmon. He took pics and when he emails them I'll post them but I got 3 today including the monster...just got home...a day with the son on the river..gotta love Oregon! I haven't had time to fish for 2 decades until this summer and now I'm in it..back to the rivers just like when the boy was 2 years old...now he's going on 25 and is a hell of a fisherman
Not at all, I've hiked rivers all over the Pacific Rim and throughout the country...career just kept me indoors for a couple decades...that's over now
Beautiful country....spent the whole day just with the fish and birds..no chaos anywhere..it's great therapy. My son knows this state way better than I do. He fishes everywhere, every week. Fortunately he is off two Fridays a month and I'm off every Friday so life is good my friend...I've driven through there many times with my wife going to Ashland on holiday but never fished the Umpqua until today..my son keeps me supplied in Salmon...he's caught a lot the last few years.
I grew up along the South Umpqua and fished it my entire life. The river becomes a part of you. That whole area is beautiful. I'm pretty sure I've fished every fishable river in southern Oregon. As a kid in the summer, when I wasn't picking berries or working in the field for money, I would walk down to river, swim, catch a bass for fun, catch a couple of trout, catch a couple of crawdads, pick wild garlic and berries, walk back home and eat. Pretty neat way to grow up really.
16 hours later and still no pictures. How long can riverman keep asserting that a fish was caught when there is no evidence? I hereby call for - nay, demand! - an independent investigation into the facts. Was there a fish? Did riverman catch it? Was he in fact anywhere near a river on the day in question? Does he even have a fishing license? The american people have a right to know. barfo
It takes two days to gut and fillet a beast as massive as this...hang on to your eyepatch and pretend you're living in the days before cameras...my son has them on his camera and he's....well....off fishing on the coast today.
My uncle and his friends would take me fishing every weekend when I was a kid and teenager, and I've probably fished half the spots in Southern Oregon too. I haven't fished more than a handful of times since he died, I probably need to get around to doing it again.
The best fishing I ever got in on was at Celilo. The Zack brothers and Willard Cloud brought me along one weeked to dip fish with them. Well we sort of took turns, between them, they had a spot for 2 to do the fishing. Man I must have hauled in at least a half ton. Didn't get to keep any but I did get to eat a big fish dinner. That was a hoot! Nobody will have that experience again.
True true. But then no one has done it in 60 years now. Not likely in the next 60 either. That's close enough to never for me, how about you?
