Catfish hunter Loc: Riggins idaho (Paradise)

Where you headed for in Wyoming? I was raised there.

Shutupandfish Loc: Transplanted roots back to Wyoming

I went to H.S. and Univ. in Laramie, joined Army and U.S.C.G outta there. Now all my family has all migrated up to Gillette. So that’s where I’m headed. Thinking tomorrow evening to check out some Lyle catfish for a couple hours. Guessing you fished the west side rocks.

Shutupandfish Loc: Transplanted roots back to Wyoming

You know it, packing stuff already but still have the truck I may or not have to put a tranny in, almost done with boat trailer. Should put new tires on camper, and besides the building to rebuild when I get there, my brother in WY went to look at crew cab dually for me to put my powerstroke in from the one I launched off the cliff here

Shutupandfish Loc: Transplanted roots back to Wyoming

Yup, everything has overhead. Folks asked for years why I didn’t guide, figured I enjoyed fishing too much to turn it into work. Columbia hell of a river

Catfish hunter Loc: Riggins idaho (Paradise)

Yup. The west side. I’m, originally from Sheridan. Born and raised on a ranch just south of Sheridan and we had a place south of Buffalo. I worked at the AMAX Bellaire coal mine down there when I got out of the service. Used to have relatives in and around Gillette. Many moons ago. Good luck back there and send us some pictures of those hog walleye out of Keyhole.
Safe travels.

Catfish hunter Loc: Riggins idaho (Paradise)

That’s true. Most of the guides I know down there, like 8 of em, don’t really like to fish much outside of guiding. Most don’t even like guiding any more. The state restrictions are a real problem for them most of the time. Both Oregon and Washington fish managers screw things up real bad all the time for salmon, steelhead and sturgeon trips for them. Real tough to make a go of it down there as a guide for sure. Anywhere in the PNW actually. It’s a mess.

Shutupandfish Loc: Transplanted roots back to Wyoming

I’d have less problems with the regs if they would stop restricting/blaming my one fish while allowing gill nets that kill everything in the river, nothing traditional about monofilament Gill nets, evinrudes or fiberglass etc

Catfish hunter Loc: Riggins idaho (Paradise)

Very true and I hear ya. A couple of years ago I was fishing below Maryhill for squawfish. I noticed a commotion in the river. I took my boat over to see what was going on and found a gill net, long after the tribe had shut the netters down. It was tied off to a tree on the bank and the other end was floating free in the river. The commotion was about 30 live coho tangled up in a net with another couple hundred dead fish of every species, including juvenile sturgeon, walleye, bass, steelhead and you name it. Anything that swam into it. I unhooked and released anything I could and drug the net out of the river and up by the road that goes down the river behind the Maryhill fruit stand. I was,really, hoping to get caught doing it but nobody showed up. I called the Washington fish and game and told them what I found and what I did. They just said “don’t mess with those tribal nets. That’s not our deal.” I’ll do it again and EVERY time I see it. Not when they’re legally fishing but leaving those fish to get caught and die after they are told to get them outa the river just burns my butt. Then, as you said, they tell us we can only catch one fish and it has to be fin clipped in the spring and we have to use one pole and barbless hooks.

Catfish hunter Loc: Riggins idaho (Paradise)

My youngest son two days ago at Keyhole. They caught two limits and this one is 11 pounds.

Shutupandfish Loc: Transplanted roots back to Wyoming

Nice!, Brother fishes it often, never pulled out one like that, sending him pic

Shutupandfish Loc: Transplanted roots back to Wyoming

Still haven’t been the 10 minutes down to catfish, life keeps getting in the way. Been busy turning an old trailer tongue and axle into a drift boat trailer, Nothing else worth keeping from old one. From this to that.

Jeremy Loc: America

Looks good buddy.

Built in the West by the BEST. Like I always say The WEST is the BEST.

It should serve the purpose. Thanks for calling earlier buddy.

Catfish hunter Loc: Riggins idaho (Paradise)

Dang! Looks like you’re making a heck of a nice trailer there. Nice.

Catfish hunter Loc: Riggins idaho (Paradise)

They don’t catch a bunch that size but once in a while a big one screws up. Lots of 16”to 18” ones though. Perfect eater size.