Early this morning, I met up with my MotoSport pal, James, for some Winter Steelhead Practice out on the Clackamas River, and then over to Eagle Creek. (if we caught something, we wouldn’t have called it practice) James hadn’t been out steelheading in quite a while, but after a few minutes, he picked up right where he left off! Tossed all kinds of gear, bait, colors, scents, but couldn’t get a steelhead to even look. Got to break in our 2010 fishing licenses somehow!
This pic is Bonnie Lure State Park up by Estacada. A lot of people like to fish Eagle Creek for steelhead (and also Coho Salmon, when in season), but personally, my favorite is to wade across this stretch and fish either the Clackamas River or Eagle Creek from the island. However, today, when the Estacada river gauge is at 13.7′, this stretch is just a little too high for my hip boots!
James took this picture, and if I had thought about it, I should have snapped his pic and posted it up here, too. Next time!
if we caught something, we wouldn’t have called it practice.if we caught something, we wouldn’t have called it practice.
With 2009 drawing to a close, and still no steel on his 2009 tag, there were mere hours left for Jeff to get a steelhead. After getting inspiration from another ifisher’s mega-hen caught yesterday, Jeff hit the banks of the river with fishing pal, Mitch (of Kevins Driftboat) in the pouring rain at sunrise for one last chance at winter chrome glory in 2009. Obviously from the pic above, we pulled it off. Read on:
Team Tuxedo Burrito 2010 Motoxdream Supercross Fan Poster
Here is the official Team Tuxedo Burrito 2010 MotoXDream Fantasy Supercross Fan Poster. Click the link to sign up to play Fantasy Supercross against Tuxedo. You’ll also notice the cool motocross backgrounds courtesy of MotoX Photography Go ahead and set it as your computer wallpaper!
These are also some banners that automatically update with the latest TeamTuxedoBurrito standings in the most important Fantasy Supercross Divisions.
Hooked a huge Coho Salmon on the Siletz yesterday morning while targeting Steelhead with Paula’s dad, Clark! I’ve never caught a Silver from the bank before, but it was a pretty strong fish for my lighter gear! It absolutely nailed my homemade spinner from behind a rock and did some major thrashing and bent my rod almost totally in half! I’ve seen some pretty big Siletz Steelheads in the past caught from the same spot, so I didn’t immediately think “salmon”. But, once I got it near the bank, I realized from its head that it was not a Steelhead but a Silver (and a wild one at that), so we quickly brought him in, unhooked, aimed the camera and set to release. Anyway, after unhooking him, in the split second we took to snap a picture, my iphone’s digital camera totally didn’t take the picture, and the salmon returned to the deep water, so here’s an “action shot” of what it probably looked like right before the hook up!
I would have loved to have had an actual photo, because that one was an awesome fish! Ah well, we still had a good laugh about it!
Paula and I went downtown into Portland for some coffee and ran into the Portland Day of the Dead parade–who knew!? They had the hearses and a mummy drum corps. The video is the parade passing by. More pictures below! Read the rest of this entry »
