Springer fishing this weekend?

Total fish caught kayaking: 0

DON'T GIVE UP!!! Lost too many good friends/fisherman to that accursed long walk with a bag of expensive sticks!!!!!





but, I'll give you $300   

$325

Until this weekend, my dry streak stretched across getting skunked on Tillamook Bay (on a guided trip no less!), skunked on the N. Fork Nehalem, skunked on the Trask, skunked fly fishing on the Deschutes twice, skunked on the Sandy once, catching 1 herring sized planter trout on Hagg Lake, and skunked twice on Multnomah Channel..

Getting towed around by a sturgeon for 10 minutes on Saturday made it all worth it.

Maybe the Portland crew's next trip ought to be something a little less iffy than salmon.  Sturgeon?  Bass on the Willamette or Tualatin?

3WT - Good idea.  Maybe I need to book a confidence building trip to a private lake, to catch some lazy inbread trout!  Actually, some Sturgeon fishing does sound fun, not sure if the keepers numbers are that high, but at least you can catch some fish.

Glad to hear I'm not the only one getting skunked regularly.  Guess fishermen ARE like everybody else and talk more about their successes than failures.  The good news is that on every single failed trip I've had,  I've ended up learning something of what to do or not to do.  The more I fail the more I learn, but this learning curve is mighty big.  Regardless the company, exercise and just being outside keeps me going.

To all offering to "offset my losses" by buying my ride, your outta luck.  I don't give up THAT easy, if I did, that would have been like 10 trips ago. 

Scott, my newbie advice is to just keep trying. A good day paddling is always a reward in itself. After catching a good sized trout at Drano yesterday and a chinook at Multnomah Channel today, there's finally blood in my yak. Your time will come soon enough.

Maybe you need to buy some more tackle??? hehehe

Jay