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September 2007
With his first full season as a pro basser starting to wind down, our bassin’ fool, Big Fred Contaoi (right, with Paulie Jr. and Sr.) got some good news recently after a meeting in New York with the Orange County Choppers guys — it looks like OCC will once again sponsor Big Boy on the FLW Tour in 2008!
I’ll pass along more details when they’re available….until then, way to go!
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Apparently, Barry Bonds isn’t the only guy on “The Juice.” Just look at this his 15-pound Kenai River rainbow trout…
Guide Andy Martin of Wild Rivers Fishing in Alaska sent me this…he said that he hooked this bruiser, which he initially thought was a coho, in the middle section of the Kenai while drifting yellow Pautzke salmon eggs and a small piece of yarn soaked in Pautzke Liquid Krill on 6-pound test. Felllow guide Bruce Hewitt held Martin’s fish up for a quick photo and then they let the big dog go back to do what he does best…apparently eat everything in his path!
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Sadly, we had to say farewell to Cordova, Alaska today. Reilly & I had a great ride fishing the road system from a rental car for the past 8 days. Considering we’d never been there before, we figured things out pretty quickly — a conservative estimate is we hooked 250 to 300 silvers during our trip and, in reality, probably more. The trick was to adapt quickly to the ever-changing water levels. We went from low and clear to 7 inches of rain in two days and then back to low, back to high, etc. You get the picture.
Our final two days were incredible…
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This Smoker of the Year Contest entry comes from Griz Lee Bear (his friends call him “Brownie”), who lives near Haystack Creek in the Alaskan bush. Though we’re not sure what Bownie caught this nice humpy salmon on, it appears that it was sharp.
A man of few words, Brownie told us:
“Yum…salmon brains good!
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Since I last checked in from Alaska, we’ve had 7 inches of rain (and small craft advisories) in just over 2 days here in Cordova…we’ve fished through it all, though. When all the rivers were flooding, we found coho in back sloughs that looked like bass ponds and we absolutely killed them on a bassy-like technique that will remain a secret…
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This is one of the coolest pictures I’ve seen in a long time. A buddy just randomly emailed it to me, so I sadly don’t have any info on where it was taken (or by whom…nice job, by the way!).
From my time living in Washington State, I’d have to guess that this was taken somewhere up there. In big rains, we’d often see chum salmon in some goofy places…though I never saw one swimming across the highway!
I’m thinking that the next time this happens, I might just have to do a new article for Salmon Trout Steelheader on fishing for salmon out of truck….something like Backtrolling out of the Back of Your Truck,” or “Pound the Pavement for More Salmon,” or “Black Top Trolling Tips” or…ah, nevermind!
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Even though they’re not native to the West Coast, I love brook trout…which really aren’t trout, but a member of the char family…ah, nevermind, it’s not important.
Anyway, brookies are about the coolest-looking fish you’ll ever see and they’ve got about the same amount of brainpower as a mayfly. That means they’ll bite just about anything you put in their face (small gold Wob-L-Rite spoons have always been a favorite of mine!). And when you’ve got a mess of 10 inchers, there’s nothing better over an open camp fire than fresh brook trout.
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