It's a God damn shame man.I was so looking foreward to go smelting on my way to visit my grandpap in Lebanon Oregon.I'm in California right now,but i spend most of my boyhood in the pacific northwest.Thanks for keeping me up to date Roger.
Hopefully we all learn a lesson or two from the ordeal.Maybe the law will do us all some good and the smelts as well.It wasn't like this back in the early 80's as i remembered in my boyhood.
That's what happened when privileges are being abused man.God chased Adam and Eve out of the Garden Of Eden for the same damn reason,people abused their privileges.They take,take and take and never gave a moment to help conserve and protect..
Newport Oregon,the Salmon washed ashore on the sand after spawning season.It just laid dead and exhausted on the sandy shore.Great place for crabbing and digging for clams also.
Dip it in flour and seasoning and fry it up dawg !! it go great with cold beer.My brothers and i used to do that.Go get some nettings,some buckets and scoop it up.Take it home and share some with the next door neighbors. I believed we got cited one time,broke some kind of fishing law,but it's all worth it.I love the pacific northwest.We just came from Cambodia at the time in the 80's,didn't know anything about the fishing law of the land.I believe we took more than we needed and got cited..
@SithSereyPheap1 Thanks for watching! They have put these fish on endangered list after they let them start taking them commercially with nets in the Columbia River. Now no one can have any......Roger
I have wonderful childhood memorys of my father and I netting buckets full of these and my mother would fry those little rascals up in big old cast iron skillet. Talk about good eating! There are tons of them in Wisconsin still as far as I know. They are a smaller variety though so they may be a different branch of the smelt family tree? If they have died out there also that would be a same there were millions of them when I was a kid and not many folks actually fished them.
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Hey rblood50, great video. Any idea what the fish are doing in that shallow water? I don't see any milt or eggs. Are they spawning? They almost look stuck in the shallows but it seems like the fish at the edges could easily get into the current if they wanted to. Spawned out and dying perhaps?
It's a God damn shame man.I was so looking foreward to go smelting on my way to visit my grandpap in Lebanon Oregon.I'm in California right now,but i spend most of my boyhood in the pacific northwest.Thanks for keeping me up to date Roger.
SithSereyPheap1 3 months ago
Hopefully we all learn a lesson or two from the ordeal.Maybe the law will do us all some good and the smelts as well.It wasn't like this back in the early 80's as i remembered in my boyhood.
SithSereyPheap1 3 months ago
That's what happened when privileges are being abused man.God chased Adam and Eve out of the Garden Of Eden for the same damn reason,people abused their privileges.They take,take and take and never gave a moment to help conserve and protect..
SithSereyPheap1 3 months ago
They ain't kidding,this is the land of plenty.We must protect and preserve also,to keep things plentiful....
SithSereyPheap1 3 months ago
Newport Oregon,the Salmon washed ashore on the sand after spawning season.It just laid dead and exhausted on the sandy shore.Great place for crabbing and digging for clams also.
SithSereyPheap1 3 months ago
Dip it in flour and seasoning and fry it up dawg !! it go great with cold beer.My brothers and i used to do that.Go get some nettings,some buckets and scoop it up.Take it home and share some with the next door neighbors. I believed we got cited one time,broke some kind of fishing law,but it's all worth it.I love the pacific northwest.We just came from Cambodia at the time in the 80's,didn't know anything about the fishing law of the land.I believe we took more than we needed and got cited..
SithSereyPheap1 3 months ago
@SithSereyPheap1 Thanks for watching! They have put these fish on endangered list after they let them start taking them commercially with nets in the Columbia River. Now no one can have any......Roger
rblood50 3 months ago
@rblood50
They should allow at least 2-3 pounds or so, nothing for commercial, not even a pound
sov19871987 2 months ago
@rblood50
Those fish can recover very fast, if given a chance.
sov19871987 2 months ago
I have wonderful childhood memorys of my father and I netting buckets full of these and my mother would fry those little rascals up in big old cast iron skillet. Talk about good eating! There are tons of them in Wisconsin still as far as I know. They are a smaller variety though so they may be a different branch of the smelt family tree? If they have died out there also that would be a same there were millions of them when I was a kid and not many folks actually fished them.
Nebulax123 4 months ago
This could fix world hunger...... lol Wow!
meatmangary 4 months ago
yes what river is that
1cutties 4 months ago
@1cutties Cowlitz River Wa. State. We are catching Salmon on this river now. The Fall run has arrived!
rblood50 4 months ago
@rblood50
They closed this year. What month was it by the way?
sov19871987 4 months ago
@sov19871987 Yes they are now on endangered species list. It was taken in Febuary
rblood50 4 months ago
What river is it?
sov19871987 4 months ago
@sov19871987 Cowlitz River Wa. State.
rblood50 4 months ago
Freaking awesome man.
MrGetthenet 8 months ago
I think they are just thirsty .all those fish see that root beer and are beaching them selves just to get a drink. heheheh
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amysweeney101 10 months ago
Great vid My father used to love to go smelt fishing, we never saw numbers like that though. Keep it up.
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TheOatStaff 11 months ago
@TheOatStaff I Have never seen them like this. I have lived on the River for 23 years.
rblood50 11 months ago
Start pickin' em up and puttin' em in the fryer!!! Yum
WisconsinFishingKid 1 year ago
Hey rblood50, great video. Any idea what the fish are doing in that shallow water? I don't see any milt or eggs. Are they spawning? They almost look stuck in the shallows but it seems like the fish at the edges could easily get into the current if they wanted to. Spawned out and dying perhaps?
SirSmelty 1 year ago
@SirSmelty I would say they are spawning, but then again I'm not an expert.
I have never seen them do that before.
rblood50 1 year ago
That is unbelievable!
ifishslick 1 year ago