04/10 - 04/11 - Cathlamet Cruise

Larry,
Thanks for the address :thup :thup.

Ken,
Don't worry, smelt or no smelt, I'm sure we'll still drink your beer :wink.

Food? Is this a pure fen-fer-yerself affair :? Are we gonna have one potluck dinner on Saturday :? Is there some kinda traditional food thing :? I'm fine any-which-way 8).

Cruise rookie / Jon
 
Larry,

The business card I have for Jim says P.O. Box 651, Cathlamet not 654. The style is such that I looked more than once but after finding a 4 in the phone number my non postal eyes settle on the "1". You got a change we don't know about?

Tim
 
Tim

My postal eyes are worn out.l You are very correct. The address is PO Bx 651. I'll edit my post above. Thanks for noticing this.
 
TyBoo Mike,

Weather conditions will not be the deciding factor in us boaterhoming. And after spending considerable time in the bow of the Denabola :star over the past several weeks worth of installs and wiring, I can assure you that this is not an option. I'll let you crawl in there at the cruise. It's like getting into one of these :email, and you feel like this :gift.

Imagine Hodini in the straight jacket trick for a good visual?

Jon
 
Whine, whine, whine. We'll see if Lyle will bring his 14 footer down to boaterhome on. Won't be the first time for him!

Naw, it will be OK. You folks can sleep wherever you like, as long as you are there. It's going to be great to meet all the new friends.

Next weekend, Kay and I are hoping to get in a practice run. I have Friday of this week off, and I go onto nights for another machine install project next week, so we can leave Friday morning and not have to be back to the home port until Monday morning. She wants to spend one night at Sand Island across from St. Helens, and the other two nights will probably be at Cathlamet. We are even taking the fishing poles this trip. I figured since work and their silly little projects will keep us from making Jezebel's Lagoon later this month, we might as well take advantage of the one free weekend I get.

I also have the Friday before the official C-Lamet trip off, so we should be pulling into port early for the official event.
 
Mike,

We are still planning to pull in Sat. morning. Staying at a B&B up on the hill.

It would be great to get some directions on which way to go on the river to meet up with you. Also hoping to get a radio by then so need to know what channel y'all are monitoring.

Never did hear anything back on the food question. I know everyone must eat. I'm assuming it's fen-fer-yerself.

Good to here your taking boating advantage of your time off :wink. Enjoy :D.

Jon
 
WD

I've only been to one official CD gathering. We had a potluck type dinner on Saturday night. (Sequim) I think just about everyone prepared their specialty dish for the dinner. It filled the tops of two picnic tables and was a fantastic feast. I'm hoping we can do something like that again at the Cathamlet gig. Other than the Saturday evening feast, everyone fended for themselves. Hopefully we will be able to bbq a fresh springer :mrgreen: .

Now for the fishing report: I fished the Cat-hamlet area (Clifton Channel) today. Hooked 3 springers. One came unpinned, one was a wild (native) fish and had to be released, and the third was a 17 lb keeper.
All were caught at high slack tide on herring. The hot tip of the day was to slip a "Rotary Salmon Killer" on my leader. The RSK gives the herring a perfect spin. One of my fishing partners needed to be shown how deadly they are. After Pappy and I caught the first 3 fish, he became a believer.
 
Larry,

The potluck sounds like a graet idea :smilep. I vote aye. How about everyone else???

This is me drooling out of my eyes :cry for the tug of a nook. Way to go on the hook-ups. You gotta pic of this RSK? Where can we get a couple? Our last day of fall nookin' we saw a guy using a silver #4 spin-n-glo with the mylar wings six inches above his herring instead of a flasher. He put two in the boat within an hour. Looked to be a 25lb & 40lb. I've been dyin' to try this too.

I've been reading up on the springer fishin' down your way and they say that the majority of the run will be up river before the cruise. I'm hoping this is just lore from those (like B~C :wink) that want all the fish. What's your read on this?

Thanks for the report :thup.

Jon
 
Larry,

You sure got the old guys attention with that Rotary Salmon Killer. Who makes it -- and wonder if it is marketed this far away. Maybe I could keep up with Jon and Cynthia with that gadget if I don't tell them about it. Yeh, fat chance!!

Good fishin'!

Dusty
 
Looks like Larry has step out, that rotary salmon killer is a like a mooching rig with a plastic herring helmet that clips the the baits head, a fin on the plasic clip gives it that delightfull roll. GI Joes has them. The things agravate me to death trying to spead the clip apart and hold it whilst trying to stuff a slimey, slippery hearing head in there. Larry's a grizzled salmon veteran, I'll bet he knows of a good way to load them up
 
Fishing Buddies

Rotary Salmon Killers are made by several companies. The best ones are made by Scotty. Scotty uses better plastic so they don't break so easily.
I just looked on the Scotty website but couldn't find them listed there. It appears that they are more interested in selling downriggers. Anyhow, I can show you a picture of what they look like, http://www.protroll.com/rotarysalmon.html but I have to say that you'll be better off getting the Scotty version, because it is better quality. I think most sporting goods stores sell them. I got mine at Englunds in Astoria.

PS If you can tie your own mooching hooks, you don't need to buy the whole RSK. All you need is to buy the plastic clip that clamps onto the herring's head. Just slide the RSK over your own rig. The Scotty version cost about $1.15 apiece or you you can get a price break if you buy in quantity. Mine cost me $1 a piece. And it's well worth it, saves on herring also. We caught the first springer and used the same herring to hook the second one. First time in my life I've ever done that.
 
Da Nag Bill brought a couple of those gadgets up with him when I took him out salmon fishing. I never did use one and I think I talked him out of it because it was faster doing the cut plug method. You can get a slow spin or fast spin depending on the angle of the cut plug (fast for silvers and slow roll for kings). Maybe this year I'll give it a try if the cut plug doesn't work.
 
Okay, here is why they are very worthwhile:
1. They give your herring that great roll you are always striving for... the perfect roll.
2. It gives you peace of mind.. you no longer need to keep reeling up to check how your bait is working.
3. Three of us trolled for about 6 hours today and used about 8 herring between all of us. Actually we could have gotten by with about 5 herring all day. The blade makes the herring spin and the herring provides the scent.
4. You don't need to thaw out your herring, which saves even more money. Thawed herring gets nasty if you take it home and try to re-freeze it to use on another fishing trip. (Don't ask me how I know this). You can clip a frozen herring into the clip just about as easily as a thawed one.

BC Ken, try using a variation of a snap ring pliars to open the clips, it makes it easy.
 
Thank you so much. I really don't plan to out fish Jon, and I KNOW I'm not gonna out fish Cynitha. But I'd like to be able to fish in the same water! I've got some of those gadgets in my tackle box, along with a dozen or so of everything else, so guess I'd better give it a try.

Because I brine (milk, pickling salt, etc.) my frozen herring, I don't have a problem keeping them. Just catching salmon seems to be the prob...

Dusty
 
Larry, I really do like the idea of using frozen herring, that would save $$$ on bait, especially those days when they hit light. I take it that the hooks don't go thru the bait at all?
 
I don't know Dusty, these last couple weeks of blackmouth fishing have been bad for this kid. Man, when you get that fish slayer up and running, you're gonna show all of us up. :thup
Jon
 
Jon

I didn't put my hooks into the herring, just left them dangling. I think it's very important to have very sharp hooks though. Saving money on bait is great, but the real reason to try them is because they appear to catch more fish.
 
So, you all will not only tell me how to GET to Cathlamet when we meet up at Gerbil's Cove but what I need to bring too...I will toss in what little fishing stuff I have, be sure to get a new license, and maybe just maybe catch a fish? :lol:
 
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