03-29-2005, 04:24 PM
[cool][#0000ff]You live in one of my favorite parts of the country. I had a friend that lived in Keiser (Salem) and we made a few trips past your town back in to Green Peter reservoir and back into Quartzville Creek. Not much but planted bows, but did some productive gold panning too.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I have fished almost the entire length of the Willamette, from the Eugene area to Oregon Falls. I have also spent a lot of time along the Alsea and Nestucca Rivers, with some time on the Wilson, Trask, Rogue, etc. I have had some good times with the stripers along the coast, on the Smith, and love the underfished smallmouth and shad up there.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Do you ever get over to fish the largemouth lakes around Florence? And, in case you haven't tried it, there are some backwaters along the Willamette, between Salem and Portland, that have some great bassin' too.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I have been tying flies since I was 7 years old, in Idaho. I have been pouring and painting jigs since I lived in Sacramento in the early 70's. Have been building rods since my days on the party boats in Southern Cal, in the late 60's. I make all kinds of spoons, spinner baits, buzzbaits and regular spinners. I make some weighted spinner lures by pouring wire into jigheads and adding blades and beads too.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Naturally, I have "accumulated" a few goodies, in order to keep well supplied for all of my vices. Here are a couple of pics of my main wall in my "office".[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Hope you are able to find a suitable "sushi board" for a flyline apron. I think you will appreciate the rigid apron. In fact, you may even consider cutting down one of the shallow plastic containers to provide higher sides. I used to wear one of those for shooting line while wading on the American and other California waters. I used a lot of shooting heads for shad, steelhead and salmon. The "line bucket" helped keep the line out of the water and it shot through the guides much better on the cast. I am sure that it would work as well on the tube. That's the one thing about the Outcast line that I have not liked is the apron.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I have fished almost the entire length of the Willamette, from the Eugene area to Oregon Falls. I have also spent a lot of time along the Alsea and Nestucca Rivers, with some time on the Wilson, Trask, Rogue, etc. I have had some good times with the stripers along the coast, on the Smith, and love the underfished smallmouth and shad up there.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Do you ever get over to fish the largemouth lakes around Florence? And, in case you haven't tried it, there are some backwaters along the Willamette, between Salem and Portland, that have some great bassin' too.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I have been tying flies since I was 7 years old, in Idaho. I have been pouring and painting jigs since I lived in Sacramento in the early 70's. Have been building rods since my days on the party boats in Southern Cal, in the late 60's. I make all kinds of spoons, spinner baits, buzzbaits and regular spinners. I make some weighted spinner lures by pouring wire into jigheads and adding blades and beads too.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Naturally, I have "accumulated" a few goodies, in order to keep well supplied for all of my vices. Here are a couple of pics of my main wall in my "office".[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Hope you are able to find a suitable "sushi board" for a flyline apron. I think you will appreciate the rigid apron. In fact, you may even consider cutting down one of the shallow plastic containers to provide higher sides. I used to wear one of those for shooting line while wading on the American and other California waters. I used a lot of shooting heads for shad, steelhead and salmon. The "line bucket" helped keep the line out of the water and it shot through the guides much better on the cast. I am sure that it would work as well on the tube. That's the one thing about the Outcast line that I have not liked is the apron.[/#0000ff]
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