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Dip netting for smelt on the Cowlitz River
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Feb 5, 2025
Dip netting for smelt on the Cowlitz River
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all right we are
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live doing some smelt dipping here my
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wife I got my limit now she's scooping
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her limit although she was killing it
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earlier she had like a few Scoops to get
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to
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like six lbs coming up a little dry just
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got to work at it again get the
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technique down did you get some yeah
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there we
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go that nice little scoop down there
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works for you
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yeah all
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right oh there you
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go
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awesome all right back at it again this
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is what we got so far got a full limit
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in that bucket and now we're working on
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my wife's limit
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and
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uh there we go another nice scoop good
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job
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the the smelt have
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been very close to the bank they like to
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swim closer to the
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bank to uh make it easier to
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swim and uh
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oh so that's been that's been good bit
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effective for for getting I'm here it's
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about 40° out in Kelo Long View area and
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it is cold it's pretty uh it's pretty
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chilly but we're almost done ready to go
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for some some breakfast some
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coffee um oh got to get your net totally
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straight
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um then you you basically start upstream
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and you push Downstream go with the
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current to get them into your into your
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scoop
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yeah you got to be near the bottom
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though CU they like to swim
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there but uh we were talking on the
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Instagram live screen stream about what
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we like to do with them there's a good
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Scoop
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nice big one
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buddy we um we'd like to fry them up you
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clean them um really easy to clean them
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and not like a razor clam or something
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but uh not that razor clams are
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difficult but you there's more to the
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process um anyways we
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uh there we go we fry them we fry them
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up fry them up and
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uh and uh did you say you do like a
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flowera paprika flour salt garlic
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powder probably yeah or at least it's in
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the video I did from
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2021 wow that's a scoop guy next to me
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just pulled up like a pound in one scoop
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holy cow that was a scoop and a
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half what watch whatever he's
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doing good job honey good
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Scoop good
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Scoop there we
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go there we go almost there honey almost
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there
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so oh Hy oh oh I don't want to do that
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don't want to do that here we go I'll
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get them out these actually seem to be
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you got these seem to be bigger than uh
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last year look at these guys these are
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also known as uh as candle fish in the
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salt the king salmon Springers you know
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the ones that are eating feeding forging
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down near at the bottom this time of
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year um that's a huge huge source of
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food and it's one of the reasons why uh
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you know the king salmon has so much
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oily fatty flavor and so my thing is
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with the smell why not you know why not
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go right to the source and uh hold on
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second me turn it
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around you know I love eating King
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Salmon love catching King Salmon but
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uh you you get the smell and you're
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getting what they
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eat and uh W and that's
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fantastic man oh
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man where is he doing that is it out
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further that huge Scoop have some
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because we just come from that Park yeah
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there no no fish at all oh really yeah
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oh gear heart Gardens yeah the gardens
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yeah yeah no fish at all I started there
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a few years ago and then I found this
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spot and I just come here now oh great
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great we're almost done if you you guys
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can slide in
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it
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well missed that
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one doing good here yeah we're almost at
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two limits and that guy over there
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whatever he's doing is the he got the
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scoop he's doing like a pound of scoop
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over there yeah he's the guy with the
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long net I think though a he yeah oh
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that's pretty good one you guys are
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doing
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yep running around good good for
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them one of these days the uh you know
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get a little bit of revenue from the uh
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from from all the dipping but I think
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they did a survey that like most people
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that are out here don't have an actual
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wfw fishing license or anything so you
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know you don't need fishing license
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though that's what I'm saying yeah but
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most of the people doing it don't so you
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know they're trying to pass the Bill
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apparently is in the Senate trying to um
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get it approved to everything they do
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takes uh takes an act of Congress
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more which like this right here if you
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already bought a fishing license one day
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fishing license shoot they'd make a lot
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of money they would and you know that I
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mean I I work you know on one of their
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committees for p sound um recck
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enhancement so I'm aware like the money
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the money would go to good use for
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enforcement and and monitoring and cre
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checking and raising fish and and all
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that so but it almost seems like right
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now because you don't need a license
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almost more expensive to have the game
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ward running around well that's what I'm
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saying that's what I'm saying like they
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they ought to cuzz that money is coming
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out of the same you know place that goes
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towards salmon management and steel head
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management and all
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that y oh that's nice scoop honey look
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that good Scoop all right I'm going to
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wait after this I'm going to wait cuz I
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don't know how much
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way I
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will all right all right we're going off
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here going off
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line