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Skriven 2009-09-22 13:36:00 av BOB GEARHART (1:123/140)
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Ärende: Re: Pink Trout
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 Hap Newsom said to Bob Gearhart at 09-18-09  09:30
 Subject: Re: Pink Trout<Hap Newsom>

 HN> Hiyez Bob!
 
 Hi Happer
 
  ->   When you bring up a fish from the deep, it takes a while.
 ->   If they come up to fast the swim bladder comes out and they
 ->   aren't fun to fight with then.
 -> 
 HN> I've never had that happen with a salmon, and I've caught
 HN> them as deep as 200+ feet. 
 
 We fish using a lead ball of about 25 pounds for sinkers  called a
 downrigger.  Process goes like this, find the school on the depth 
 finder, drop a thermometer until it reads 55 degrees, note the depth.  
 Set a lure usually a spinner about a foot long on the end of the line, 
 then attache a quick release to the line just ahead of the lure to a
 steel cable trailing the lead ball and fitted out with flashing blue 
 and white attracters about a foot and a half long.  Now the entire
 contraption is lowered to the premarked dept.  When the fish takes 
 the lure, it pulls the line free of the downrigger stuff and the boat
 speed starts pulling it to the surface.  You have to grab the line 
 quick and set the hook.  
 
 Because we fish in lakes that are only 70 - 85 miles wide, not a big
 ocean, we get shorter rollers so the boat has more of a tendency to 
 bob up and slide backwards down. This means you have to run the boat 
 faster because we are generally in smaller boats from 18 to 35 feet
 long.  They will slide backwards down a steep roller other wise 
 letting slack into the line for the fish to get off.   All of that 
 means you have to keep a tight line and sometimes they come up to 
 fast.
  
 HN> Right now the salmon are heading up the rivers
 HN> to spawn...and the fishermen at all standing 
 HN> shoulder to shoulder in the river trying to catch
 HN> em before they do! What's really funny is when
 HN> one guy hooks a fish and fouls his line with 
 HN> 10-15 other folks immediately! 
 
 They are more civilized here.  Generally that is, but not always.
 When someone yells fish on, they all pull in their line and give 
 them room to fight the fish.  None here are fishing for food, so 
 you have a substantial group who are using light spinning gear 
 with 8-12 pound test line.  
 
 At the cost for license, travel and accommodations, you can buy a lot 
 more and better tasting fish at the fish market.  Most of the shore
 fishermen are living in tents at local State Forest campgrounds, in 
 the northern half of the lower or in the Upper Peninsula.  
 
 The fish in the southern parts of the state are blocked at power damns 
 so fishermen there either charter boats or own their own.  However you 
 do it, it is far from subsistence fishing and costly.
 
 ->  a third salmon that doesn't get as large and runs after the winter
 ->  cold settles in.  They all look the same to me, and none of 
 ->  them look like that pink stuff they sell in the supermarket.
 ->
 HN> I have not had canned salmon in more than 30 years! 
 HN> more like 40 I'd think! 
 
 A tunafish sandwich I can get into, but I like mine with onions, 
 Dorothy likes celery and hates onions.  So it has been a while since 
 I've had any either.
 
 ->  HN> Our rivers run cold...reallly cold and trout 
 ->  HN> in those rivers really taste good! Not mushy
 ->  HN> not soft and not muddy.
 ->  
 ->  They aren't muddy here but they are a soft flesh. I prefer my fish 
 ->  firm and flaky.
 ->
 HN> Up here the trout from rivers ARE firm and
 HN> flakey!
 
 ->  It doesn't get as cold as it once did, and that is presenting a 
 ->  problem.  If the lakes don't freeze over in the winter, evaporation
 ->  removes to much water lowering the water levels creating a problem 
 ->  with shipping..  During other seasons rivers running in from Ontario 
 ->  keep them pretty full, but it doesn't rain water in the winter and 
 ->  the Ontario rivers run low.
 ->
 HN> We keep our snow in the mountains where it 
 HN> stays well behaved (well most of the time) until
 HN> spring and summer when it melts and feeds the 
 HN> rivers..keeping them nice and coooold!
 
 Our snow melts off by March usually.  But the stuff that falls up 
 by Jim and east keeps the river running down from Canada.
 
 ->  ->  HN> We did something similar, although I never used 
 ->  ->  HN> tomato with fish. We'd slice an onion thin, a lemon
 ->  ->  HN> thin and toss those into the cavity as well as some
 ->  ->  HN> herbs (usually thyme or tarragon) and salt and pepper.
 ->  
 ->  Chuckle..  This was before cooking entered my life.  Onions, Parkay
 ->  and a couple cans of tomatoes with a lot of beer was our groceries
 ->  assortment.  :-)
 ->
 HN> I didn't even consider that cooking! 
 
 Chuckle, I still don't.  But then I found out there's a lot more to
 cooking than just making food hot.
 
 ->  HN> Dem was the days....we thought they'd never
 ->  HN> end......then we got old (grin)!
 ->  
 ->  Don't I know it.  Looks like I'm going to have another resident here.
 ->  Dorothy's dad is in the hospital and can no longer live alone. So 
 ->  either he stays here, or she goes to his house. I'm spoiled rotten.
 ->  Someone to do my laundry and a fantastic cook.. We will try him here. 
 -> 
 HN> Good luck buddy...It's gonna be tough I'm sure!
 
 He is helping me reply to this message now, so I best make this one 
 the last one for today.
... Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened.
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