funny,
A few yrs back I called In-Fisherman magazine about their annual "Big Fish" issue where they profile the true freshwater giants of the world. There were Russian Sturgeon and Amazonian Arapaima Pi'racu', Mekong and Wels catfish from China and France. Huge Taimen trouts from the Himalayan steppes ......but no mention of the White Sturgeon.
So I called the mag to see what gives......
Al Lindner picked up. So I reamed on him a liddle about ignoring our own giant fishes. I told him that I could go down the road 5-10miles and catch stuff bigger than the fish in his magazine articleas, that he was serving his own country short shrift....... there was a long pause.......
And I quote his reply.....
"What, Are You STUPID?"
So anyways..... he told how this slot of the Columbia is their private playground. They've been coming here since the early 80's. Sturgeon, Salmon, Steelhead, Smallmouth, Walleye like they can only dream of back home......and tastier.
Here and the Fla Keys is where the In-Fisherman crowd fish on their off time. Al and Jim Lindner and Gary Roach from Brainerd MN know this stretch of river better than me!
When I moved back here in '84 the salmon fishermen were throwing Walleyes in the woods. "Trash Fish" to be treated like Squawfish or Pike minnows. A friend of mine chopped up a couple of 12-14lbers and spread them on his garden. In fact, it was bad form to ever put one back in the water if you incidentally hooked one......... "river law" stated that you had to take it home to dispose of it or chop it up for chum. Or just hurl it into the woods.
A walleye guide will still starve here. I know a bunch of guides....one of them has me do some gun work. I asked him about guiding for walleyes and he said he'd do it, on "special order only" basis.
Yup, guys here will put back stuff that'd be hanging on the wall in MN.
Good to see you taking advantage of our bounty.
al
A few yrs back I called In-Fisherman magazine about their annual "Big Fish" issue where they profile the true freshwater giants of the world. There were Russian Sturgeon and Amazonian Arapaima Pi'racu', Mekong and Wels catfish from China and France. Huge Taimen trouts from the Himalayan steppes ......but no mention of the White Sturgeon.
So I called the mag to see what gives......
Al Lindner picked up. So I reamed on him a liddle about ignoring our own giant fishes. I told him that I could go down the road 5-10miles and catch stuff bigger than the fish in his magazine articleas, that he was serving his own country short shrift....... there was a long pause.......
And I quote his reply.....
"What, Are You STUPID?"
So anyways..... he told how this slot of the Columbia is their private playground. They've been coming here since the early 80's. Sturgeon, Salmon, Steelhead, Smallmouth, Walleye like they can only dream of back home......and tastier.
Here and the Fla Keys is where the In-Fisherman crowd fish on their off time. Al and Jim Lindner and Gary Roach from Brainerd MN know this stretch of river better than me!
When I moved back here in '84 the salmon fishermen were throwing Walleyes in the woods. "Trash Fish" to be treated like Squawfish or Pike minnows. A friend of mine chopped up a couple of 12-14lbers and spread them on his garden. In fact, it was bad form to ever put one back in the water if you incidentally hooked one......... "river law" stated that you had to take it home to dispose of it or chop it up for chum. Or just hurl it into the woods.
A walleye guide will still starve here. I know a bunch of guides....one of them has me do some gun work. I asked him about guiding for walleyes and he said he'd do it, on "special order only" basis.
Yup, guys here will put back stuff that'd be hanging on the wall in MN.
Good to see you taking advantage of our bounty.
al
