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Paul (Fv_flyer)
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Posted on Saturday, April 08, 2006 - 7:30 pm:   

Had 2 fish, 19# & 17# (by boat scale) by 9am & released one 21".......worked for #3 all day.....it came at 430pm on the way in. Nice day on the water. Couldn't make the fund raiser due to other obligations.... may fish tomorrow grey bite then go home. Thanks Joe.

Paul Schuyler
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Posted on Saturday, April 08, 2006 - 5:20 pm:   

fished up in santa cruz this morning for two fish. mixed up seas with 12 knot winds in the morning but it started to lay down when we left around 10am. lots of bait. most boats had one or two, had to fish the downriggers deep at 260' or right at the bottom to get the fish....
try moving for someone with all that wire out in the wind, that'll get you to think about a mile ahead!!
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Dustin DesJardins (Farmerd)
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Posted on Saturday, April 08, 2006 - 3:54 pm:   

Nice try Steve ..... good to see your back on the water. The fleet will be back out there tomorrow giving it a go. SB chapter coming up tonight or in the morning to head out of Morro, lets hope it gets going.

D
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Steve Hendricks (Fishmaster)
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Posted on Saturday, April 08, 2006 - 3:17 pm:   

Fished PSL in the skiff today (Avocation is down again). Trolled for 5 hours @ the red light with tons of bait. Only 1 knockdown all day. I did not hear of a keeper landed! Heard of a few up in Morro, but it sounded very slow there too!
Be back out next weekend.
The bait is there, now we just need the fish to bite. Gorgeous day on the water. Saw several Minke whales again.
best fishes,
steve
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Andrew Dunn (Drew_2452)
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Posted on Saturday, April 08, 2006 - 2:51 pm:   

Where in Morro can I get some nice tray-bait? Thanx
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Posted on Saturday, April 08, 2006 - 10:11 am:   

i always thought the guy with the biggest boat had the right of way
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Melvin A. de la Motte, Jr. (Fishinaddict)
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Posted on Saturday, April 08, 2006 - 10:02 am:   

Friends: If you haven't purchased your tickets yet to our big fundraiser tonight at the Morro Bay Community Center (fish fry at 6 pm), please get there early if you want to purchase "at the door". 2 years ago we were overflowing and it was lucky the fire marshall didn't show up.

See you all there.

Mel
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Melvin A. de la Motte, Jr. (Fishinaddict)
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Posted on Saturday, April 08, 2006 - 9:59 am:   

Joe: That comment about north and south has right away against east and west was a comment I made to the Windfall (Hather is a friend of mine). It was a joke since we were on a collision course. I certainly hope no one took that comment seriously. I find that boaters here are much more considerate than in Monterey Bay ... just my observation. Sorry if I made a comment that confused anyone.

Mel
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Michele (Fiesta)
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Posted on Saturday, April 08, 2006 - 5:22 am:   

Happy Saturday! hehehe
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Posted on Saturday, April 08, 2006 - 12:13 am:   

got two fish this afternoon in front of the rock, double hook up. everyone came in when the wind came up, but decided to give it a try anyway. watermelon apex at 65 feet.
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Will Bateman (Willbateman)
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Posted on Friday, April 07, 2006 - 8:59 pm:   

BBQ, that was me. I am sorry if I bummed you out, In the interest of clarity, I was noting the spelling of ADIPOSE. No offense. I am a friend of all fishermen and I will support you all to the end. I am a product of higher education,so sometimes I feel like an editor. Don't worry about it, it is not personal, and I will try to curtail it in the future.

Will
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David Joseph Anderton (Bbq)
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Posted on Friday, April 07, 2006 - 8:33 pm:   

Hello Michell,

I totally agree, you are right, the last three times fishing I can tell you there have been at least 5 times that we have been totally cut off, including today.
We have had other boats telling us they have the right away, north and south takes the rule over east and west, if the other boater would have changed their course 3 degrees a mile or so away their would not have been a problem at all.
The birds are working the center of the bait ball. If you drive right throught the birds, you are dragging all you gear through the bait below and splitting the bait ball up. which in turn drives the fish down or away. If you keep your distance far enough away not to scare the birds, you are on the outside of the ball. This is where the fish are. Take a look at a underwater video showing any kind of fish working on bait balls, they are looking for the wounded buffalo on the outside. Easy pickings. Reference, Bob Franko.

Best regards,
Joseph Anderton
BBQ.

PS. If there is anyone out there who would like to bang or thrash me on my spelling. Go ahead have at it. A couple of weeks ago someone had a great time bashing my spelling, Adapost or Atipost fin.
They spent their time bashing the spelling and did not get the message. If anyone turns in a fish with a cliped Aditpost or Adapost Fin, take your pick, south of Big Sur, this year from the Klamonth River, what do you think the DFG. will do to our fishing rights for next year. The same they are doing north of Big Sur, use the information against us, to close us down next year.
Thight Lines, hope we all get alote of Salmon this year.
PSS. I wish this board had spell check. I appologize again for not having good spelling.
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Gary Connell (Pismo_gary)
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Posted on Friday, April 07, 2006 - 8:33 pm:   

Will,
Nice picture! Thanks for the help today. It was a pleasure having you aboard. The salmon was fantastic on the BBQ tonight. I've already retied some of those hootchies. I'll probably be out again in the morning. Thanks again.
Tight lines and 4kt winds.
PismoG
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Michele (Fiesta)
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Posted on Friday, April 07, 2006 - 7:21 pm:   

If I were to troll through the center of a bait ball, I would scatter the bait and push the fish down. I try not to do this. If someone was working a bait ball by trolling around it in circles, trying to catch the fish around it, I would look pretty stupid driving right through the middle of it and scattering it, rather than falling in behind them or finding a different ball since there are so many of them around. Everyone makes mistakes, but I would never even think of this as a way to catch fish.
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Michele (Fiesta)
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Posted on Friday, April 07, 2006 - 6:54 pm:   

Fish'n wasn't slow for BBQ. They had limits for 3 guys again.
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Michele (Fiesta)
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Posted on Friday, April 07, 2006 - 3:44 pm:   

ok, I will be there, but not until 8:00. Although; If we can't put some fish on the boat tomorrow morning, I may be there on time.
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Bob Hather (Windfall)
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Posted on Friday, April 07, 2006 - 3:22 pm:   

It was very slow salmon fishing in front of Morro Rock today even though the bait was massive. Very different from yesterday in that there were hundreds of birds diving on the surface bait and the bait was top to bottom for miles. We caught one shaker and most of the 40 boats went home empty. Otherwise conditions looked perfact. I'll be at the door tomorrow night 6:00 at the Morro Bay Community Center for the CCFCC dinner.
Bob Hather
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Will Bateman (Willbateman)
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Posted on Friday, April 07, 2006 - 2:26 pm:   

Fellow anglers,
Gary is no longer a virgin! This is his first salmon: 13 lbs caught on a green croc off PSL this morning. He will now be hooked forever.
Will
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Charles Reed (Charlie_reed)
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Posted on Friday, April 07, 2006 - 12:37 pm:   

Michele If you will bring two forms for the salmon enhancement program to the dinner tomorrow night I will sign up.
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Posted on Friday, April 07, 2006 - 10:59 am:   

Early report phoned in from Salmonella, nice water early in front of the rock, wind coming up now, tons of bait and birds, lots of boats, only a couple of radio fish.
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DOUGLAS HOLLOWAY (Fishinfool)
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Posted on Friday, April 07, 2006 - 10:26 am:   

ANY WORD ON MEETING. HEARD THEY CUT SEASON BY
90%.
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Posted on Friday, April 07, 2006 - 9:19 am:   

The salmon are in santa cruz best numbers are 36/ 51 121/59 to 36/52 122/03 also fish are at mulligans, 200 ft. blue hoochies wlth rainbow flasher. Check weather, go get em, den tincancaptin
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Posted on Thursday, April 06, 2006 - 10:32 pm:   

Steve:

I spoke to the 2nd in command at the Coast Guard about the salmon 3-mile thing. He admitted that they were confused, and had it wrong. He was going to pass it along to his boarding crews. No harm, no foul.

Eric Endersby
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Posted on Thursday, April 06, 2006 - 9:02 pm:   

got one fish out in front of the Rock this afternoon around 3:00, but the fish came loose at the net. The fish was on a watermelon apex at 65' in 160' of water. Fish and game said only 6 fish caught today out of 9 boats.
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Posted on Thursday, April 06, 2006 - 8:26 pm:   

Mark, You are hearing C.G. San Francisco. The Federal waters are only closed above Pt. Sur as there is no Klamath impact in our area. The waters below Sur are open in State (out to 3 miles) as well as Federal waters (out to 200 miles). I did hear from a private boater who called my office on Monday stating that they were harrassed by C.G. Morro Bay for being out more than 3 miles. The C. G. was wrong on this and I called Eric at the MB Harbor office who said he would talk to C.G.M.B. Steve Patriot Sportfishing
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Posted on Thursday, April 06, 2006 - 8:26 pm:   

WENT SALMON FISHING OUT OF MONTEREY. FISHING WAS GOOD.SEVERAL LIMITS WERE CAUGHT. fISH WERE DEEP, 200-250 ON BAIT. FISH WERE IN THE HIGH TEENS AND LOW TWENTIES. GET THEM WHILE YOU CAN!
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Posted on Thursday, April 06, 2006 - 5:45 pm:   

Good news for us and good news for Monterey (if it holds). Looks like a regular salmon season from Pigeon Pt. south with no closures.
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Will Bateman (Willbateman)
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Posted on Thursday, April 06, 2006 - 12:37 pm:   

Thanks Michele. Also, Central Coast Salmon Enhancement will be receiving this year's fish at Port San Luis on May 10th. We will be having a salmon BBQ at the base of the pier to celebrate and to raise a litle more money for fish food and equipment. Hope all you fishermen and women can make it to Avila to see the new fish and to have some food and beer. Thanks for supporting us. More info later.

Will
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Posted on Thursday, April 06, 2006 - 11:23 am:   

I was just out in the yard working on the boat. Coast Guard out of San Fran came on 16 and said salmon fishing in federal waters is now closed except in state waters. Pretty sure that's what he said. Anyone else here anything?
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Melvin A. de la Motte, Jr. (Fishinaddict)
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Posted on Thursday, April 06, 2006 - 11:02 am:   

Friends: Okay, here is my plug for the day. Buy your tickets to CCFCC dinner at Morro Bay Community Center at 6 p.m. on Saturday night. Big auction with great raffle prizes. $35 ticket includes the dinner and membership in CCFCC. Fish-Fry with free drinks and great desserts. Buy tickets at Virg's or Four Season's Outfitters. Or, call our office at 544-2424 and leave message. Also can buy tickets at the door. This is a great function every year. Please support our efforts to protect the rights of recreational fishermen.

And incidentally .... the stink is off our boat. This morning we caught a nice 12-pounder.

Mel
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Michele (Fiesta)
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Posted on Thursday, April 06, 2006 - 10:06 am:   

Anyone who is salmon fishing locally that didn't make it to the Central Coast Salmon Enhancement fundraiser but still wants to support them can stop by the Fiesta from 2-3 pm or Virg's anytime to pick up membership form. They could really use the support.
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Posted on Thursday, April 06, 2006 - 7:41 am:   

Well it's about time!!
http://www.katu.com/stories/84756.html



Bloody Decks Forever!!
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Posted on Wednesday, April 05, 2006 - 10:34 pm:   

Fishing Monterey on Saturday and Sunday. If anyone is heading up drop me a e-mail. We can exchange cell numbers spread out and call each other as we find the fish. Caught a 21lb and a 28lb fish on opening day. I need a few more of those. fernqvistjs@sbcglobal.net
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Melvin A. de la Motte, Jr. (Fishinaddict)
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Posted on Wednesday, April 05, 2006 - 8:04 pm:   

Friends: So, here is that message to follow.

WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT AND HELP. TICKET SALES ARE NOT UP TO LAST YEAR. PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU GET YOUR TICKETS AT VIRG'S OR FOUR-SEASONS OUTFITTERS. OR, CALL OUR OFFICE AT 544-2424 AND LEAVE A MESSAGE THAT YOU ARE COMING AND WE WILL HOLD TICKETS FOR YOU AT THE DOOR (WILL-CALL).

We will have a fantastic auction and raffle items ... and a nice door prize.

The dinner is this Saturday at the Morro Bay Community Center at 6 p.m. $35 ticket includes yearly membership in CCFCC. Fish-Fry with free drinks and fabulous desserts. For our friend, Mr. Moore, we will make sure to have some Firestone beer on tap ....

You can buy tickets at the door, but it is very hard to figure out the right amount of food when everyone buys at the door. So, please help out by getting your tickets early.

Mel
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Melvin A. de la Motte, Jr. (Fishinaddict)
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Posted on Wednesday, April 05, 2006 - 7:58 pm:   

Friends: Harold Davis is just back from Sacramento and said that the hard work of Coastside Fishing Club was pivotal in getting a decent salmon fishing season. Be sure to read the article by Ben Sleeter below. These guys were fabulous and put in a great deal of work. They all deserve a pat on the back. They are also the group that is waging a lawsuit against CDFG to stop the MLPA process because of the influence of outside interest groups who have an agenda to stop fishing. We have contributed $5,000 to their cause and will contribute more as the case progresses. We need your support ... see the comments to follow.

Mel
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Posted on Wednesday, April 05, 2006 - 12:49 pm:   

I got this off the Coastside board .

I could not be more proud to be a member of this club than I am right now. Not because we have won anything - because we have not - but because what I saw today is perhaps the most inspirational grass-roots political campaign most of us will ever be a part of. I can say without any reservation that today is the Coastside Fishing Club's finest hour.

Everything that unfolded today was a result of our great membership. You guys stepped up to the plate in the biggest way and not only did you show up, but you conducted yourselves with the utmost class. I can not stress how important that is in these processes and today you guys helped us bank a serious amount of political capitol through your actions. Decision makers do not respond well to being called names and heckling. What they respond to is logic and passion and that’s what you all brought to the table today. Fantastic job!

The public testimony was incredible! Mike Giraudo gave perhaps the best speech I have ever heard and the entire time he had the most determined and focused look on his face and never lost eye contact with the members of the Council. They had no choice but to pay attention to his impassioned plea and it worked. Mike always minimizes the work he does for the club but I would like to say that without him we would be nothing close to what we are. Mike, you really delivered a good one today brother.

And then there was big Mike Velasquez who nailed it only like Mike is capable of doing. One minute he has me laughing my ass off and the second I was fearing for the lives of anybody that refuses to "get it." Great job Mikey!!

I don’t want to leave anybody out but I know I will. Jonah, Grumpy, Joe Carter, Harold Davis, and especially Ken Elie were just awesome. We had the absolute perfect balance of science and analysis, economics, and the human impact and I assure you it was THE difference in this process. Lots of stuff happens behind the scenes but at some point the rubber still has to meet the road and you guys left skid marks that would rival even the best effort by a certain rib and chicken eating leader of ours.

So where are we now…

As most of you know the Council voted on Darrell’s proposal to review and adopt the recreational component of Option 1 with one small modification (the area around the Klamath would be closed during August). The vote was unanimous with the exception of the NMFS member and his vote was expected and is protocol. Maria, the California representative, did vote in favor of Darrell’s option. Throughout the day it did not look like this would happen until DFG Director Broddrick showed up. I can only assume that some direction was handed down and if that was indeed the situation we can thank Ryan Broddrick for his guidance. Thank you sir for coming to the side of recreational anglers.

So now the slightly modified Option 1 will go to the Salmon Technical Team (STT) for review. If the numbers check out as expected I do not see any reason why this would not be the recreational component put in front of the Council for a final vote either Thursday or Friday. What all this means is that we do not have anything yet but things look good. We still have some big hurdles to get past at the end of the week but based on the questions I heard from the Council members today it appears as though they are in favor of allowing some limited fishing opportunity in line with the NMFS guidance.

One of the most requested things today was some hard numbers from NMFS. The Council was asking for NMFS to basically tell them how many fish would be acceptable. The closest answer we got was “not in the tens, and not in the thousands.” This sends a clear message that a recreational season in line with Option 1 would be acceptable since our impact on these fish is on the order of 200-300 or so natural spawners. This of course is all speculation at this point but I wanted to try to give you all a read into the current situation, at least from my perspective. I should also say that I had several very encouraging discussions with a certain NMFS representative where we got to discuss some details of the recreational fishery. Again, I walked away from those discussions pleased with the message I was given.

A few other highlights from the last couple of days:

I was able to arrange to have a documentary film maker join us Monday night and for the rally today. Some of you may have met Ryan who was doing some filming for a group called Shifting Baselines. I have been in communication with this group for some time now and I was very happy to see them take a very active interest in this particular issue. The Klamath River is perhaps the quintessential shifting baselines story and I think our involvement here will be positive. I don’t expect anything anytime soon but once they have something put together I will be sure to make it available.

I don’t want to speak out of turn here but I hear a MAJOR environmental organization will be submitting some literature tomorrow supporting the recreational component of Option 1. More on this later as I don’t want to jinx anything. I will leave it at that only to add that this is something I have been working on for a while now and I am hopeful this relationship will continue to grow.

The last thing I want to say is that this is not over by a long shot. Being a Raider fan I always try to tell myself something bad will happen until the final whistle blows and that is the attitude I am taking here. I refuse to let myself get complacent with today’s events and I hope that is the attitude you all take in regards to this issue. It’s kind of like having that 40# salmon worn out and ready for the net - now is not the time to loose our focus and whack him in the head. We have to continue to hit the ASA website hard and what I mean here is get it to as many people as you can. Don’t go overboard but be diligent in your effort. Nothing as of yet is guaranteed and the White House and NOAA can decide to not allow anything. I do believe that is a remote possibility but because it is still a possibility we have to keep our eyes focused on the prize. Don’t let your guard down.

My very last thing is again a big thank you to all that have stepped up on this issue. There are so many of you that have made this campaign possible and I hope to shake each and every one of your hands some time soon. Today is a day we can all be proud of and is the first huge step in preserving recreational fishing in California. I am so proud to be a member of this organization.

Today was the Coastside Fishing Club’s finest hour.

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Ben Sleeter
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Posted on Wednesday, April 05, 2006 - 12:45 pm:   

Hey steve deke's boat is out on a mooring not to sure about the bait.
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Posted on Wednesday, April 05, 2006 - 12:06 pm:   

Michele

Were you go out today? How'd you do? Talked to the Fiesta out there this morning.

eric
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Posted on Wednesday, April 05, 2006 - 11:45 am:   

Has anyone heard when Deke will have bait in PSL? I'm guessing in May, but I don't even see his boat around. Just curious, would like to start fishing for halibut soon!
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Posted on Wednesday, April 05, 2006 - 10:37 am:   

Billy Boy crew is going to try to have bait in May this year. The herring worked great today... for mackerel.
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Posted on Wednesday, April 05, 2006 - 10:03 am:   

does anyone have anything good or bad to say about a trophy 1802. im heading up to washington this next week to look at a 1996 with a 115 merc,162 hours asking 12500 said they would take 11800 . any comments. wes wondering what name you picked.
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Posted on Wednesday, April 05, 2006 - 7:15 am:   

Did anyone try mooching last weekend? Does the Billy Boy have bait yet? Thanks
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HARRELL kIMBALL (Catmakai)
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Posted on Tuesday, April 04, 2006 - 6:29 pm:   

Update on the Sacramento meetings.
Just read a report on the Coastside board that Option 1 was recommended which is the best of the three options.
We should be hearing from Mel and the guys from here that were there any time now.
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Posted on Tuesday, April 04, 2006 - 6:23 pm:   

Good article. Stacy sent it to me.

Right now the weather looks good fri, sat & sunday. Thursday may be ok but is a little iffy right now wind wise.

The early reports out of Sacramento are not good. It seems the feds are pretty biased towards a total closure above Pt. Sur. Their position is "we can't lose even one Klamath salmon"
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Posted on Tuesday, April 04, 2006 - 7:25 am:   

Thanks Harrel, that's a dam good article (sorry, couldn't resist:-)
On a fishy note: hoping to fish friday/saturday. What's the forecast looking like Harrel?
best fishes,
steve
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Posted on Tuesday, April 04, 2006 - 7:02 am:   

Some light at the end o