Sir Post allot has nothing to post about so he will just post it up up hippity up [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img]

ITS FRIGGIN HUMID!!!

 

Hey OF you got somthing to post about, tell us how you did on the fishin trip. After the bottom feeders wasen't it?

 

I think it might be time to go to the casino for some lunch....

 

We didnt catch much [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif[/img] I cought a 48" White sturgeon within 15minutes of throwin my line out and then we found nothing for 10 hours.. From the sounds of the people i know that had been down there fishing they were finshin a lil farther west than us in the shallows.. which we were fishing the shallows. but prolly shoulda maybe gone more towards the astoria bridge or even on the other side of it. boat netted 3 fish [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif[/img] Friggin amatuers at sturgeon. thats only my second time.. We will go agin here in a couple weeks. Im thinkin about fishin up near bonniville for some lunkers around the may time frame next year.. It would be sweet to hook a 10 footer [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img] On light tackle.. I got a lil bit of a sunburn. and i posted a picture of the lil sturgeon on my MSN spaces page.. Link in my signature.. I dunno if the fish or horses will come up first.. I updated pics of both..

Sunday I trimmed my horses feets and posted some pics for a friend to check out. I been tryin to teach her what matters in hoofs and what you dont need to be concerned about.. She was out on an orienteering ride this weekend in the high country of eastern oregon and her horse thats converting to barefoot chipped out in the qtrs.. wich if you know about horse feets that makes no differnce in the function of the hoof and its a perfectly natural thing for them to bust out the qtrs. If you look at my pics you will see i left the qtrs high on my hoofs.. i did this on purpose to show her what happens when you leave em vs dish them out. Shoe's on my horse... NEVER!!! My last horse I used to shoe.. that was fun to learn but Barefoot is the way to go if you have the terrain to support a more natural lifestyle for the critters.. Barefoot dont work for mucky pasture and stall horses.. But if you can provide good gorund and area to roam.. good to go [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]

 

I uploaded some pics of the Florence trip to the MSN group.

 

I have a buddy who likes to fish below the dam. He's a catch and releaser except for shad. He keeps asking me if I want to go. Maybe I will someday.

 

The sand looked fluffy like there would have been some good roller jumps out there [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img] I wish i could have gone.......

 

[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img] you should.. they are a battle. hell if you get one of them big ones below the dam you can drift a couple miles befer you get them up to the boat [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img] thats what im talkin about... chasisin th big ol prehistoric fish around [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]..

im a catch and relase guy too.. a majority of the fish i catch go back unless someone wants them.. I don't wanna clean them.. I have cleaned thousands of salmon and rockfish and have no real desire to do so anymore.

 

When the Shad run is on below John Day Dam you can absolutly wear yourself out catching and releasing them. We usually keep a few to process into Sturgion bait.

For Sturgion I have fished at Astoria, below Bonniville and below The Dalles Dams. Each area has it's own tricks and techniques that work for the big fish. Basicly it boils down to big baits for big fish. How the bait is rigged in each area makes a major differance. My favorite area is from the John Day Dam to just below Celilo Falls park. Couple of holes we have hooked fish we couldn't get to come off the bottom. Biggest one we ever had along side the boat was a little longer than the 12' tape we had with us. That was at the 109 hole across from Maryhill Park. Great fun but I haven't figured out how to fish for them from the quad. [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif[/img] At least not yet. [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img][img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img][img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img]

 

I really like to let the horses go barefoot as well and most of the time that will work out fine. When working with one horse for several days at a time in rocky country I believe it is better to have them shod. Too much of a chance of having hoof trouble when its quite a ways to a road. Kind of like putting Slime in your tires.[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img]