Outdoors thread

[BugeaterInWa]

Had a buddy from ID come over for the weekend. He is going home with some groceries tomorrow. 31# Halibut, big fat ass Cabazon, some Black rock fish, and some crabs.

Biggest Cabazon I've seen so we kept it. They have to be big to make it worth it as they are almost all head and short bodies. Meat is blue. Pretty tasty fish.

Oh and colorado sucks!

GBR

 

[LoudHogRider]

Had a buddy from ID come over for the weekend. He is going home with some groceries tomorrow. 31# Halibut, big fat ass Cabazon, some Black rock fish, and some crabs.

Biggest Cabazon I've seen so we kept it. They have to be big to make it worth it as they are almost all head and short bodies. Meat is blue. Pretty tasty fish.

Oh and colorado sucks!

GBR

That is a WILD looking fish!

 

[LoudHogRider]

The teal hunters on the nearby Elkhorn river are absolutely messing with the deer hunt … again … this morning. May have to play my “I’m retired” card and hit the woods when these sonsabitches are back at work later in the week.

 

[BugeaterInWa]

That is a WILD looking fish!

They look similar to a lingcod but shorter and darker. Oh, they also don't have the ling fangs.

 

[BushAK]

Fall is a beautiful time of year up here
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[tman87]

Whereabouts are you at on the Elkhorn, LHR? Grew up on that river.

 

[BugeaterInWa]

Whereabouts are you at on the Elkhorn, LHR? Grew up on that river.

I'm thinking he is in Alaskie as one of those appears to be a Humpy. Others look like trout and a char maybe?

 

[Jim14510]

I'm thinking he is in Alaskie as one of those appears to be a Humpy. Others look like trout and a char maybe?

That was @BushAK

LHR deer hunting along the Elkhorn.

 

[BushAK]

I'm thinking he is in Alaskie as one of those appears to be a Humpy. Others look like trout and a char maybe?

The red fish is a sockeye salmon that has turned. The other pictures are rainbow trout and Dolly Varden.

 

[tman87]

Bugeater - shit, this site loads so slow for me, I only saw the first pic from the blind, which looked like it could be the Nebraska Elkhorn. The other pics and videos are just now slooowly loading for me, and I now see my mistake. I did not grow up on the AK Elkhorn river. But the northeast NE version, yes.

 

[tman87]

And NOW I see Jim's post.... and that the slow ass loading pics were BushAK's.

So my question still stands for LHR I guess. Which, LHR, you don't have to out your location if you don't want. I saw Elkhorn river and a view that looked like the Nebraska Elkhorn, which now I know (think I know), it was.

 

[Jim14510]

The red fish is a sockeye salmon that has turned. The other pictures are rainbow trout and Dolly Varden.

What is the 1st picture. Weird shaped.

Some nice trout. All on the fly?

 

[tman87]

BTW - not blaming you BuskAK on the slow loading pics/vids. Great pics and fish BTW!

 

[BugeaterInWa]

What is the 1st picture. Weird shaped.

Some nice trout. All on the fly?

That's the Dolly that I accidentally called a char.

 

[BugeaterInWa]

The red fish is a sockeye salmon that has turned. The other pictures are rainbow trout and Dolly Varden.

Huh, guess I didn't realize that spawned out reds look like spawned out Humpys. We don't get many opportunities for sockeyes (reds) down here.

 

[Jim14510]

That's the Dolly that I accidentally called a char.

Still weird shape. They must color up more in the spring?

 

[LoudHogRider]

Whereabouts are you at on the Elkhorn, LHR? Grew up on that river.

Up between Wisner and Pilger at Black Island WMA (public land). I've had a wireless trail cam set up there since the first part of August, and there are a lotta deer present at the trail cam location. Hard to be mad at the teal hunters - they're excited to get out there and get some shooting in, too.

 

[tman87]

Up between Wisner and Pilger at Black Island WMA (public land). I've had a wireless trail cam set up there since the first part of August, and there are a lotta deer present at the trail cam location. Hard to be mad at the teal hunters - they're excited to get out there and get some shooting in, too.

Nice. Not that far from my where I grew up. Which makes sense - the Elkhorn isn't a long river in miles, really.

 

[BushAK]

That's the Dolly that I accidentally called a char.

You are right. Dolly Varden, Brook Trout, Bull Trout, and Arctic Char are all part of the char family.

 

[BushAK]

Still weird shape. They must color up more in the spring?

They spawn in the fall which is why they get colored up.