Box kicker 101
Marine

You said one of your duty stations was Okinawa Japan in your about me.What was Japan like. I know my recruiter spent some time over there.....might explain the asian wife. I'm only kidding. Can you tell me what it was like over there. I've heard a ton of stories with a wide range of good and bad. Well, TTYL, take care. -Christine.E.Lopez

Fish On!

I've done considerable catfishing in the Columbia and Snake drainage systems and they rarely hit hardware especially if it's buzzin faster than the current thats bringing them feed. Static or slow, live and dead bait, crawlers #1, prawns, herring, sand shrimp are slayers with a little cover like WD-40 or scented hand soap to wash out human sign and bring em closer in cloudy water. A couple few inches off the bottom for no more than about 5 minutes or so, then ill work different water.

They sniff out and identify minute particals better than Salmonidae and thats impressive. Sometimes cats lurk alot closer to the shore than one would expect and just poke their heads out for feed drifting by but the presentation should always be slow and unassuming, cats don't tend to go lookin for a fight.

If you can take a stick and gently probe (as if it were to the fish nothing more than driftwood) for holes or caves in the bank they might be holding there, also under log jams and snags. It's hard to get terminal gear in front of their face in those areas but sometimes worth it.

Damn i need to get my ass out on the river!

~Dave