Ok, I give up. What did I catch?
May 14, 2020 20:47:41 #
jrchop wrote:
In some parts of Washington State and Idaho along parts of the snake there is a bounty for pike minnows. There is another name they use for them and my memory slips me but in places there used to be as much as a five dollar bounty. I've sat at nine mile falls Washington on the Spokane river and caught as many as 75 a day. But I found out about the bounty after I could not catch any more
You can only collect bounty on the pike minnow program if they’re caught in the Columbia or Snake rivers. The bounty starts at $5 and goes as high as $8 and $500 on tagged fish. They have to be 9” plus.
May 14, 2020 20:58:04 #
Bait Fisher 55 wrote:
I did say it had been years since I fished last, a... (show quote)
The second picture is a pea mouth chub. Top picture looks like a wild jack chinook ( king salmon) and the bottom picture is a rainbow trout. .
May 14, 2020 21:00:44 #
Bait Fisher 55 wrote:
I did say it had been years since I fished last, a... (show quote)
🥴 the bottom picture is the same as the top duh. Not a rainbow trout or a chinook. Lol
May 14, 2020 23:00:42 #
Glad to know that I wasn't sure how that worked exactly, but thank you
May 15, 2020 00:50:04 #
Fishing Fool wrote:
Did they close Oroville to Coho's? We used to catch quite a few out of there as it was open to Coho's year round.
No it's not closed. I had totally forgotten that Oroville has coho and not Kokanee. Actually it's the only place in Caiifornia where you can legally fish for them. Oroville also has king salmon. I'm not gonna comment on what those fish in the pictures are, it hard enough to identify a fish when you're holding it in your hand or it's in the water, much less try to do it from a photograph.
May 15, 2020 10:36:38 #
May 15, 2020 10:50:55 #
charlykilo wrote:
If top has a black mouth King salmon
bottom looks like a pike minnow. I think there is a bounty.
bottom looks like a pike minnow. I think there is a bounty.
Pikeminnow has a larger mouth and different and very slight stripes.
May 15, 2020 10:58:54 #
jrchop wrote:
In some parts of Washington State and Idaho along parts of the snake there is a bounty for pike minnows. There is another name they use for them and my memory slips me but in places there used to be as much as a five dollar bounty. I've sat at nine mile falls Washington on the Spokane river and caught as many as 75 a day. But I found out about the bounty after I could not catch any more
The pikeminnow sport reward fishery is a Bonneville Power, depredation, program. It’s, specifically, the Columbia River and 400 feet up each tributary from Astoria to Priest Rapids dam and from the mouth of the Snake River and 400 feet up each tributary to Hell’s Canyon Dam. So Oregon, Washington and Idaho. I’ve done the program for 7 years so far. It’s a tough fishery to master. My average is 30/day now and the number one angler has an average of 174/day. Pikeminnow (squawfish) are easy to catch but hard to find. If you find a big school you can catch em all pretty easy.
May 15, 2020 11:13:21 #
DozerDave wrote:
You can only collect bounty on the pike minnow program if they’re caught in the Columbia or Snake rivers. The bounty starts at $5 and goes as high as $8 and $500 on tagged fish. They have to be 9” plus.
Hi dozer. They also do a “lost tag” deal too where they will pay you $100.00 for one that had a tag but lost it. They went to a spear tag last year. They said it was because it’s less harmful to the fish but I think it was because the animal rights people threw a fit about the circular wire tag looking bad. They lose those spear tags really easy so we’re not getting as many $500.00 fish now. Just as many tagged fish but the payout is less cuz the tag is gone. They insert a micro chip in all the tagged fish because, in the beginning, people were manufacturing tags and making their own, tagged, fish. There’s also people who catch the pikeminnow from other places and try to sell them. I’d advise against that. The fish look different and will cause a red flag with the checkers. When that happens they “green tag” you and do an investigation. You don’t get to see the “green tag” but people will start watching you and you won’t know it. They start DNA testing your fish and all of a sudden when you bring in fish they just hand you a slip saying you’ve been kicked out of the program. Once that happens it’s very hard to get back in. Virtually impossible. There’s no fine for doing it because there’s no regulations about catching them in most places. It’s just not legal, with the program, to catch them outside of Bonneville Power obligation to pay waters. Even some of the tagged fish will travel outside of the boundaries but they WILL still pay you for those because they were tagged inside the boundaries.
May 15, 2020 11:36:47 #
Catfish hunter wrote:
Hi dozer. They also do a “lost tag” deal too where... (show quote)
Ya... I guess we should call them “Fish Huggers” OMG-LOL. They’ve got their nose stuck into everything. As far as the cheaters. If there’s a way they’ll figure it out. Or at least try. I’m glad they’ve figured out a way to at least catch some of them. But like everything else us good guys have to pay one way or another for the a$$ wholes in this world.
May 15, 2020 12:15:11 #
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