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chadwickfeesh

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  • About Me:
    theres no sense in being stupid unless you use it!
  • Interests (Hobbies, favorite activities, etc.):
    feeshin, cookin and huntin
  • What I do for a living:
    sport fishing guide
  1. Missouri river in Craig, MT. Rent a drift boat from the Trout Shop and DIY. Camp at the bridge in Craig. The fishing is technical, but the river is loaded with trout and really easy water to float.
  2. Fisheye, I'd add some all white string leeches to the arsenal as well. Keep the hook sizes below a #4 for the rainbows and IMO very little flash for the rainbows too. Those rainbows do have a hard on for purple as someone else had mentioned. Keep the profile as thin as possible and super long leeches aren't necessary and cause too much damage on the trout. Chartreuse and king fisher blue are great colors for Chinooks and large silver and red flash flies work like a charm. Steelhead love purple and black/blue stringers. Black and orange works well two. ESL's work and have caught many fish, but I think the fish get used to seeing those things, so I stay away from them. I know you didn't ask for help, but these are my suggestions for what it's worth. They work for me.
  3. AK King Salmon -- My personal best on a fly
  4. I'M IN!!! Thanks for the chance -- Happy Holidays!
  5. comfort delux looks nice. surf to summit air wave is a superior seat if cost isn't an issue.
  6. okay, so to what extent does a "fact" and "theoretic explanation" become considered truly independent and separable from one another?
  7. is that science? it appears to be mathematics.
  8. if you'd see some of the escapement goals on some of the rivers i fish you might be skeptical like me. for instance the escapement goal for the alagnak river several years ago for sockeye salmon was 100,000 fish. this didn't happen thankfully because the commercial fisherman couldn't get them all, but historically the alagnak get somewhere around 3 to 6 million fish. how would that equate into maintaining fish levels. its easy to sit at a computer and read all this information given to us, but until you have seen first hand the decline in fish returns then maybe the its time to question the "experts". i'm not doubting you and i appreciate reading both sides of the story. thanks for the response, but there is always going to be alot of he said/she said with this topic like others. bottom line is that fish populations have declined greatly and will continue to decline if nothing is done, but say oh there fine -- don't change a thing.
  9. hidden lake, bear lake, big lake, liesure lake, hazel lake and kirshner lake to name a few. the later of the three are terminal fisheries with natural barriers. those projects seem to be rather low impact and appear to be a profitable solution for the commercial fisherman. my concern is that in areas where these alien fish are planted genetic dilution will result in the wild population. there is a new practice underway in alaska called open sea farming and basically they are the same open net cages oparated far out at sea and away from the migration routes of wild fish. it seems pretty legit and far safer because in theory the wild fish will not come into contact with the harmful nets. the smolt are reared in the cages -- released and they return to their natal cage. don't ask me how the fish would be able to find the net perhaps it would have a distinct smell?
  10. just so you know they dump the sockeye smolt into lakes not the rivers and as you know the young require a lake to spend a year or two depending on the bloom to feed on algae and zoo plankton . they dump the farmed, hatchery raised, aquaculturally reared sockeye salmon smolt into many of lakes on the kenai peninsula and cook inlet drainages that have self sustaining populations. i'm not expert, but i've spent the last ten seasons in bristol bay with me feet in the rivers that are teeming with 100 % wild sockeye. its one of the few places on the planet that have that distinction -- kamchatka peninsula is the other. your kidding yourself if you think the china poot and the homer fishing lagoon are the only place practices like this are being used.
  11. sockeye salmon are farmed. do a search on the cook inlet aquaculture association. its a differen't type of farming, but the results are less controllable and result in the genetic dilution of wild sockeye.
  12. do a search if your actually that interested. after posting this on all my favorite forums i'm a little exhausted with all the fact sharing. i'm glad that folks are interested in the topic and encourage people to inform themselves. watch The End of the Line and read Stephen Sloans "Ocean Bankruptcy".
  13. in science there are no facts to begin with -- educated guesses, scientific methods and theorys. its all open for challenge and is encouraged to be tested. i agree that overfishing has a greater effect on fish populations than fish farming that was never the argument. my point is why use 4 or more pounds of one fish to produce 1 pound of genetically inferior fish if there is such a demand for fish? in the case of salmon -- throwing smolt into the rivers and ocean is only a short term "fix". the problem is the smolt are reared in large net pens that are ridden with sea lice, disease and produce tons of waste. the wild self sustaining fish come into contact with these areas and are at risk. IMO a better measure for protecting fish stocks is to preserve and protect the ecosystem. dumping a bunch of smolt into an area whos fish populations have squandered is not the answer.
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