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Troutnut | December 24th, 2011, 6:35 pm | |
Administrator Bellevue, WAPosts: 2737 | Hi WF, Glad you liked the pictures. I'm sure you've got some great stories from your time in the Alaskan bush... feel free to share them here if you like! Jason | |
Jason Neuswanger, Ph.D. Troutnut and salmonid ecologist | ||
Wfliris | December 24th, 2011, 5:03 pm | |
Lusk, Wyoming Posts: 1 | Good to see some well composed Winter pix of the Tanana River. I lived in the village of Tanana for 30 years and took many great shots like yours of the Tanana and Yukon rivers. I had a fish camp 20 miles upriver from Tanana on the Yukon and a homestead on the Tozitna River. I used to operate a test fish wheel project at the mouth of the Tanana that counted migrating salmon into that drainage. I found your site while looking for aquatic insect information relative to trout fishing. Thanks for the great site I'm sure to visit it again. WF | |
Troutnut | November 14th, 2011, 4:37 pm | |
Administrator Bellevue, WAPosts: 2737 | I might do some ice fishing, although I'm not sure about burbot. I don't have an auger, just a spud, and it's crazy hard work spudding through 4 feet of ice to set a burbot line out on the river. Half the time, the hole will punch through to solid ground, a slurry of frazil ice, or muddy water, and you have to go somewhere else. I've never had much luck with it. I put a lot of burbot in the freezer this spring running setlines off the bank for a few weeks after ice-out, though. I'm more likely to do a bit of ice fishing on lakes with friends who have augers. But I don't do all that much of it. | |
Jason Neuswanger, Ph.D. Troutnut and salmonid ecologist | ||
Jmd123 | November 13th, 2011, 2:38 pm | |
Oscoda, MI Posts: 2611 | Ice fishing is the only other form of fishing I do these days besides fly fishing. I haven't pulled out the spinning gear since 2007, just a personal challenge to see if I can catch everything I want to on fly gear. But, since I'm not much of a steelheader - throwing any significant weight on a fly rod is no fun for me and now BOTH pairs of waders have leaks in them - I will be pulling out the ice-fishing gear in the coming months and drilling some holes in the ice...How about you, Jason? Jonathon | |
No matter how big the one you just caught is, there's always a bigger one out there somewhere... | ||
Troutnut | November 12th, 2011, 2:53 pm | |
Administrator Bellevue, WAPosts: 2737 | There are burbot in those waters, Jonathan, but they're safe from anglers until the river freezes enough for ice fishing. | |
Jason Neuswanger, Ph.D. Troutnut and salmonid ecologist | ||