Planet,
I moved back from Alaska Nov, '99 so I can't go past then but the dorado (2 that I know of) showed up the last two years.

jan z i do apoligize, nice fish yo.

dont let the hat fool you, IM BALD.


OH JAN Z , IM ALSO KNOWN AS DODOMAN.

Thanks, Keta.

So strange. Rogue fish!

In my job my boss and I look for dangerous medications (we have identified perhaps 30 bad ones already). Most crises start with a few cases. With respect to bad drugs, a few serious adverse reactions. With respect to a human virus--the first six reports of AIDS (at that time it still was not identified) had between one and five cases reported. In the case of the avian flu, the pandemic begins with a few cases.

The more reports of rogue fish, the better. Active fishermen know as much about the ocean as anyone, I'd hazard to guess. Perhaps it is my sensitivity to single event clues, but these dodo are acting like dodo birds. And what happened to dodo birds is ... bad.

No problem Louie...I'd make a really ugly chick. (Grin)

Years ago WHen I worked at the Telephone company I Had another Dutchman buddy named Cornelius, Connie for short and our boss who had a perverse sense of humor would tell someone "Yeah ok, I'll send Jan and Connie over to take care of it" and we'd get some strange looks when we'd darken the doorway as both of us are fairly good size lads and they were expecting two girls.

haha, its good to know yah, maybe one day if i ever go up your way, maybe you can show me how to,s on then salmon. never really caught one. i was up in canada some years back , tried my hardest to fish them, but no luck.

In the midwest, fishing wolly buggers and spawn sacks in streams, one casts upstream and feels (with finger tip) and watches the super-light line drifting. The hardest thing for people to learn is how to detect a strike under these conditions. The hit can't be felt, it is way to gentle and subtle. Rather, what one looks for is a momentary (less than a second) alteration in the drift pattern. That moment of pause calls for a hard hook set, then chaos breaks out. It is interesting how big, strong fish (by freshwater standards) hit more softly than a bluegill. I only trolled salmon on Lake Michigan once. We trolled slowly--not much of a wake. Still, when the salmon hit the lure they were virtually dead instantly, as though their backbone was broken by the trolled lure. All I did was reel in a half-dead fish: dead weight, so to speak. Not sure if these are typical of salmon fishing, or specific to my region.

yes ive tried them spawn sacks up at hummard river ( canada ) MANY TROUTS , no luck on them salmon.

Fosho, I hope you make it to Alaska, and catch a 50+ Chinook, and a 500+ halibut.