Herring: The secret to catching salmon
http://videos.oregonlive.com/oregonian/2008/01/herring_the_secret_to_catching.html
Bill Monroe shares his secret for catching salmon on the Willamette.
How To Catch Crab
A quick video tutorial on collecting those crafty crustaceans.
http://videos.oregonlive.com/oregonian/2008/01/how_to_catch_crab.html
Video by Steve Nehl / The Oregonian
Oregon/Washington opah record won’t make IGFA
by Bill Monroe, special to The Oregonian
Photo: Mike Colbach
Dave Phillips’ 97-pound, 4-ounce opah, caught recently 35 miles off the mouth of the Columbia River (actually landed in Ilwaco, Wash.), won’t qualify for entry into the International Game Fish Association record book.
But not necessarily because it wouldn’t have been the largest ever landed on 30-pound test leader.
The IGFA, the Florida-based keeper of gamefishing records, doesn’t categorize opah by line classes as it does with better-known gamefish.
The opah is a valuable commercial fish in Hawaii (makes terrific sushi, said Phillips, a Milwaukie resident) but is always caught by sport anglers seeking other fish, usually tuna, marlin, mahi mahi (dorado), etc.
They’re solitary migrators that hang out with schooled tuna.
The all-class line record opah is 163 pounds on the nose, caught in 1998 by Thomas Foran out of San Luis Obispo, Calif.
Phillips said he’ll submit his catch to the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife for record-keeping purposes.
