Bend man catches possible world record trash fish
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Judge Boldt issued his ruling when I was in high school. The Nisqually Tribe was a big part of the protests. That's when my dad visited Dick Gregory in the Olympia jail
I wrote a paper on the ruling that belongs in the Smithsonian
It was a huge win. I don't see it changing
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I don't hate white fish. But they're a garbage fish. I don't know anyone without a fisheries degree - or chuck - that would put them on the same level as a trout, steelhead or salmon. Are they related? Yeah - but so are fish and humans. Look at the stupid face on that white fish. I'll say this - a 5 lb. white fish is gargantuan - but I still wouldn't take a photo that could be used as evidence.
The Boldt decision is set in stone, as are the tribe's treaty fishing rights. The non-tribal whitey asshole commercial fishers are the ones that can fuck off. You want salmon for dinner? Then go catch it, buy one from a wagon burner, or eat a farmed fish, ya city fucksticks!
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There's little reason for white commercial fishing to exist in the Columbia any more, but they get a pretty small share compared to sport and tribal anyways.dflea said:I don't hate white fish. But they're a garbage fish. I don't know anyone without a fisheries degree - or chuck - that would put them on the same level as a trout, steelhead or salmon. Are they related? Yeah - but so are fish and humans. Look at the stupid face on that white fish. I'll say this - a 5 lb. white fish is gargantuan - but I still wouldn't take a photo that could be used as evidence.
The Boldt decision is set in stone, as are the tribe's treaty fishing rights. The non-tribal whitey asshole commercial fishers are the ones that can fuck off. You want salmon for dinner? Then go catch it, buy one from a wagon burner, or eat a farmed fish, ya city fucksticks! -
Caught a couple steelhead fishing on the Salmon in Idaho.chuck said:
They don't keep them out. They're an indicator though. A healthy watershed in the PNW has whitefish in it...period. When they're gone the trout will be too because they have the same requirements. You've probably heard about all the smallmouths invading the lower 25 on the Deschutes. Gurss what fish aren't there when those are there? Whitefish and trout.YellowSnow said:
In all seriousness, I've only ever chucked one white fish into the bushes in anger out of the many hundreds I've caught. I though I had a monster brown on and started crying when it was a whitey. I was young an immature and egged on my some bad egg, Mormon kids.chuck said:You guys think whitefish are trash fish?
Man, I'm a little ashamed of my fellow fishermen.. Every bit as worthy as trout and salmon, and closely related too. They live on bugs, get as bug or typically bugger than trout. They bite readily and fight well. They're good to eat.
It's not like we're talking about bass or pan fish here.
If the whitefish disappear they'll take the trout with them and get replaced with catfish, carp, and smallmouth bass. In other words the Deschutes becomes the John Day. I'm assuming you don't prefer that
But I ain't gonna lie, I get pissed every time I get one on and it's a whitey. They are just fugly with sucker fish mouths.
Help me out here @chuck I'm out of my element here. How do whitefish keep REAL trash fish out of our trout rivers? I'm just a layman.
That's all. I've never understood the hate. I think they're cool and in most rivers, for most of the year, they are the only sizeable game fish present that are legal to go after.
When summer steelhead are resting through the winter before spawning (summer steelhead rivers mostly close to fishing at the end of November), whitefish give one an excuse to go fishing and have some "incidental" catch and release chances on steelhead. I have friends who fly fish for them every winter with #6 or #8 stonefly nymphs. They'll get 2-3 whitefish for every steelhead. Fun stuff. Don't go bigger than #6 and try to tell a game warden you're after whitefish though. -
what the is a whitefish?
You talking perch? Or some other fuck fish like a northern pike?
Cohos, silvers, cuthroats and rainbows or GTFO. -
That should be i caught a couple whitefish while steelhead fishing.MikeDamone said:
Caught a couple steelhead fishing on the Salmon in Idaho.chuck said:
They don't keep them out. They're an indicator though. A healthy watershed in the PNW has whitefish in it...period. When they're gone the trout will be too because they have the same requirements. You've probably heard about all the smallmouths invading the lower 25 on the Deschutes. Gurss what fish aren't there when those are there? Whitefish and trout.YellowSnow said:
In all seriousness, I've only ever chucked one white fish into the bushes in anger out of the many hundreds I've caught. I though I had a monster brown on and started crying when it was a whitey. I was young an immature and egged on my some bad egg, Mormon kids.chuck said:You guys think whitefish are trash fish?
Man, I'm a little ashamed of my fellow fishermen.. Every bit as worthy as trout and salmon, and closely related too. They live on bugs, get as bug or typically bugger than trout. They bite readily and fight well. They're good to eat.
It's not like we're talking about bass or pan fish here.
If the whitefish disappear they'll take the trout with them and get replaced with catfish, carp, and smallmouth bass. In other words the Deschutes becomes the John Day. I'm assuming you don't prefer that
But I ain't gonna lie, I get pissed every time I get one on and it's a whitey. They are just fugly with sucker fish mouths.
Help me out here @chuck I'm out of my element here. How do whitefish keep REAL trash fish out of our trout rivers? I'm just a layman.
That's all. I've never understood the hate. I think they're cool and in most rivers, for most of the year, they are the only sizeable game fish present that are legal to go after.
When summer steelhead are resting through the winter before spawning (summer steelhead rivers mostly close to fishing at the end of November), whitefish give one an excuse to go fishing and have some "incidental" catch and release chances on steelhead. I have friends who fly fish for them every winter with #6 or #8 stonefly nymphs. They'll get 2-3 whitefish for every steelhead. Fun stuff. Don't go bigger than #6 and try to tell a game warden you're after whitefish though. -
They live where all of those fish you mentioned live, except they are numerous and are there year round. They're considered a worthy game fish and good eating everywhere outside the PNW.PurpleThrobber said:what the is a whitefish?
You talking perch? Or some other fuck fish like a northern pike?
Cohos, silvers, cuthroats and rainbows or GTFO.
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Those are bitch ass perch. Worthless.
Fuck perch.
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I've caught plenty of Whitefish in Idaho.PurpleThrobber said:what the is a whitefish?
You talking perch? Or some other fuck fish like a northern pike?
Cohos, silvers, cuthroats and rainbows or GTFO.
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Perch are imvasive water rodents and live in warm cesspools. Whitefish are rugged, respectably large, and live in cold, swift mountain rivers, side by side and in harmony with those fish you named. The hate makes no sense.PurpleThrobber said:Those are bitch ass perch. Worthless.
Fuck perch.
Coho (silvers) are soft fighting, marginally decent eating, and have lockjaw 99% of the time. They're trash fish everywhere south of British Columbia in my book. I wish I never had to see one again. I'd rather go nymphing for whitefish than waste my time targeting them.
