Dakota Slim Posted March 5, 2015 Share Posted March 5, 2015 Back in the summer of 2007 I met Jim French (Sabra Jim) at Rye Patch for the first time and in talking with him I learned that he used to fish in a bounty program on the Snake and Columbia Rivers in WA & OR. The bounty is on "northern pikeminnows (formerly known as "squawfish") because they eat millions of salmon smolts.I love to fish and needed a break from prospecting so I took a ride up there to check it out. I liked the program and this will be the 9th year I have gone back to fish. Bounty fishermen are as secretive as nugget shooters when it comes to divulging where they catch their fish but I can tell you that the top fisherman made almost 74K last year. If anyone is interested, check out www.pikeminnow.org. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mn90403 Posted March 5, 2015 Share Posted March 5, 2015 Very interesting ... you sure have to catch a lot of fish and they don't let anyone help you. I was thinking they used nets or something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoser John Posted March 5, 2015 Share Posted March 5, 2015 The insipid Fed Park Service introduced Squawgarbage fish into Whiskeytown here in Redding and decimated the indigeneous fish in short order,then they added 3 more kinds to kill them,which killed others also. Around and around they go sic sic sic ...like playn' GOD with no edumakation-John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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