Big Gold Fish

[Bodofish]

I've caught exactly one carp out of one of I82 ponds. It crapped all over everything and smelled so bad I just tossed it back, 20/20 hindsight I should have bonked it.

[TroutSnipr]

I've caught a bunch of them out of Buena pond (I-82 Pond #6) and my Grandma always loved using them for fertilizer in the garden. I used to cut some of the skin into thin strips with some meat and freeze it to use later for cut bait, or let it rot in a bucket and then strain the bits into pantyhose to use as stinkbait for sturgeon and cats on the Columbia.

[Bodofish]

Sniper, I'm getting just a little bit of bile coming up the back of my throat from reading about that.....

[TroutSnipr]

It's how my Grandpa used to fish for sturgeon back when I was a kid before all the slot limits etc were in place. You took a big 5/0 treble on a steel leader and slid it down inside the foot of a pair of pantyhose. Then he either stuffed the foot with rollmop herring that had been sitting out a couple days, or the guts and fish trimmings of whatever we had recently caught. Then he tied the pantyhose in a knot and cut off the excess.

I'll have to try and find these pictures he had from the 20's where they were fishing for sturgeon with meathooks on steel cables baited with a whole chicken. The other end of the steel cable was attached to a tireless rim on a jacked up Model T Ford and that's how they were winching 20 footers out of the river.

[Bodofish]

When I was young my grand parents shared a duplex with a guy who held the world white sturgeon record. That was back in the 50/60's. For the life of me I can't remember his name, anyway long story short, he's the guy that taught me to make spinners, wrap rods and stuff. He used a rod and reel to catch his fish. He caught the fish just down from the Tri Cities and I know he fished from shore, had to have been near McNary. Big 10, 12 foot fg rod and Penn reel. His garage was wallpapered with newspaper and magazine articles about his catches. He made his own rollmops and had them canned up in mason jars, looked like pickled herring....never really wanted to try it...... Memories, I fished for trout and carp with him and my grandpa. They lived in Zillah. I'd have to say that's what got me into fishing.

[TroutSnipr]

Yep, pretty much same here. I grew up between Sunnyside and Outlook and spent my younger years in the I-82 ponds, various honey holes on the lower Yakima River, Rimrock lake, the Tri-Cities delta, Ringold/Vernita, and the Columbia. There were always mason jars of rollmop in the fridge in the garage!

[Dan Boone]

I'll have to try and find these pictures he had from the 20's where they were fishing for sturgeon with meathooks on steel cables baited with a whole chicken. The other end of the steel cable was attached to a tireless rim on a jacked up Model T Ford and that's how they were winching 20 footers out of the river.

I remember reading a story somewhere about some people doing that when one of them would have dragged them into the river if their bumper hadn't been ripped off. I also heard some guy that was dredging the Columbia about 10 or 15 years found the same rig with same liscense plate numbers and everything(don't ask me why or how he knew that).

[FishBaitThe2nd]

theres massive goldfish in alot of the lakes down in arizona, id catch them if I couldnt get the tilapia to bite!

[MotoBoat]

It's how my Grandpa used to fish for sturgeon back when I was a kid before all the slot limits etc were in place. You took a big 5/0 treble on a steel leader and slid it down inside the foot of a pair of pantyhose. Then he either stuffed the foot with rollmop herring that had been sitting out a couple days, or the guts and fish trimmings of whatever we had recently caught. Then he tied the pantyhose in a knot and cut off the excess.

I'll have to try and find these pictures he had from the 20's where they were fishing for sturgeon with meathooks on steel cables baited with a whole chicken. The other end of the steel cable was attached to a tireless rim on a jacked up Model T Ford and that's how they were winching 20 footers out of the river.

Pictures? Hope you find a few, and post them! Model "T", what a game changer for the blue collar american family.