Flyfisheress
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Steelhead fishing-
Hahaha I have to explain something and I explain it to all this fishing board since I am new. I am not a liberal looloo, but a conservative. But I have always been a vegetarian (not vegan, eating eggs and milk does not harm animals) because I have since a child had love and fascination for all life forms and because of that I became a nurse. So I took up fly fishing because I have fishing genetics of my father and grandfather AND there is such a thing as catch and release fising. So for years I did this, taught myself to flyfish on month long paid vacations nurses get by driving and camping all overthe intermountain west to the ledgendary streams. The trout actually taught me what little I know. I also learned to tie my own flies.
So then I realized this catch and release is about matching the hatch and fooling a fish. And flyfishing actually is a combination of entomology, nature study, physics of waterflow and wind, archery and golf to get the fly to that hole behind a rock. So the reason I fish to see the take. The sipping take, the slashing take, but the long examination of the offering and refusal by the trout is my teacher. I actually love it when I manage a dryfly is presented on a perfect drift with no drag and the shadow of a trout slowly materializes out of the depths. He drifts backwards examining the fly, then fades back into the depths. The trout is like a Zen Master, he teaches without words.
So I then realized, nurselike, why hurt the fish dragging it to me to release it? This is all about fooling a fish and seeing the take. So, you all may think this is nuts, but I tie flies only dry flies then cut the hook off at the bend.
So now we are riverfront property owners and don't need an Oregon fishing license. But I would still need to buy tags to fish for salmon or steelhead. NOT. Trout fishing opens on May 22nd.
This is what I have learned about Steelhead. They are not like salmon that return to their natal stream, spawn and then die. Steelhead spawn and then go back to the ocean. They can return year after year. They are even known to swim up the Columbia to the Snake river all the way to Idaho, spawn, go back and return again and again. If God were a fish God would be a mighty Steelhead. In fact, God created the Steelhead and the method is by evolution. So heck no I am not a Steelhead fisheress. Have you ever read The River Y?
But my husband is not a vegetation, he is a cowboy. So I cook for him and feed him meat. He eats fish too. So since the smallies are an invasive pest in the South Coquille, they are just like the feral hogs in Texas. It is OK to kill and eat them. You should see these cowboy barbeques we have in Texas. The best meat is a barbequed shoat, which is a young female feral hog. There are three reasons I allow myself to take a life. 1.To survive. 2.To put something out of it's misery. 3.Self defense. Taking and killing invasive small mouth bass is self defense of the salmon and steelhead smolts. So no, in answer to your question I would not molest a Steelhead.
Hahaha I have to explain something and I explain it to all this fishing board since I am new. I am not a liberal looloo, but a conservative. But I have always been a vegetarian (not vegan, eating eggs and milk does not harm animals) because I have since a child had love and fascination for all life forms and because of that I became a nurse. So I took up fly fishing because I have fishing genetics of my father and grandfather AND there is such a thing as catch and release fising. So for years I did this, taught myself to flyfish on month long paid vacations nurses get by driving and camping all overthe intermountain west to the ledgendary streams. The trout actually taught me what little I know. I also learned to tie my own flies.
So then I realized this catch and release is about matching the hatch and fooling a fish. And flyfishing actually is a combination of entomology, nature study, physics of waterflow and wind, archery and golf to get the fly to that hole behind a rock. So the reason I fish to see the take. The sipping take, the slashing take, but the long examination of the offering and refusal by the trout is my teacher. I actually love it when I manage a dryfly is presented on a perfect drift with no drag and the shadow of a trout slowly materializes out of the depths. He drifts backwards examining the fly, then fades back into the depths. The trout is like a Zen Master, he teaches without words.
So I then realized, nurselike, why hurt the fish dragging it to me to release it? This is all about fooling a fish and seeing the take. So, you all may think this is nuts, but I tie flies only dry flies then cut the hook off at the bend.
So now we are riverfront property owners and don't need an Oregon fishing license. But I would still need to buy tags to fish for salmon or steelhead. NOT. Trout fishing opens on May 22nd.
This is what I have learned about Steelhead. They are not like salmon that return to their natal stream, spawn and then die. Steelhead spawn and then go back to the ocean. They can return year after year. They are even known to swim up the Columbia to the Snake river all the way to Idaho, spawn, go back and return again and again. If God were a fish God would be a mighty Steelhead. In fact, God created the Steelhead and the method is by evolution. So heck no I am not a Steelhead fisheress. Have you ever read The River Y?
But my husband is not a vegetation, he is a cowboy. So I cook for him and feed him meat. He eats fish too. So since the smallies are an invasive pest in the South Coquille, they are just like the feral hogs in Texas. It is OK to kill and eat them. You should see these cowboy barbeques we have in Texas. The best meat is a barbequed shoat, which is a young female feral hog. There are three reasons I allow myself to take a life. 1.To survive. 2.To put something out of it's misery. 3.Self defense. Taking and killing invasive small mouth bass is self defense of the salmon and steelhead smolts. So no, in answer to your question I would not molest a Steelhead.
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