Hey everybody,
Last week I went fishing at Henry Hagg Lake. For most of the day the weather was good with light wind, sprinkles and only a few showers. The day started with a great trout right off the bat, it gave me hope.  But lots of actions was not to be, we had a few bites but just couldn't seem to catch anything so because we couldn't feel our feet I decided to call it an early day and after travel time got back home before 3:00. After dinner I loaded the video into my laptop and another disappointment was to fallow. The water clarity was worse then my last trip and with the light conditions lower it was hard to see anything at normal trolling and when we went deep the video was just black. I deleted the video and moved on.

I really wanted to get out on Wednesday or Thursday and get some good video so Sunday I looked at the weather forecast and saw a bit of hope, Wednesday is was going to be overcast and dry.  I was hoping to get down to some of the small coastal creeks but the forecast call for record rain Monday, and it didn't disappoint with over 3 inches. Every river, creek and mud puddle was totally blown out. Wednesday came and I thought that the Columbia was the only river that had a chance of being able to be fished. I went to my home launch and headed up river to the Sandy River area and it was a swirling mess of sticks and mud. Then I went up farther and checked out the holes one by one until I found one I liked. I started the day with a plan, I brought out for cameras, the Canon for shooting video in the boat, the Polaroid action cam for shooting poll action and 2 Okuma under water cameras. The plan was to fish a sturgeon pole while shooting a how to cut plug video. In the water went the sturgeon pole with squid and no problems. Then with no rain I set up the Canon and started shooting the cut plug video and it went great. When I put the cut plugs in the water I could not see then which was my biggest concern. I finished me video and started packing up. Pulling up the sturgeon pole I brought up a little guest, the biggest crawdad I have ever caught. Until a few weeks ago I didn't even know that the Columbia had a crawdad population but I guess all the times we thought we had scalpin it could have been crawdads. I packed up and shot a video of the ride home.

After dinner I popped out the video and loaded it into the laptop, what a disappointment, all the underwater video was unusable. The sturgeon camera was just black with no light penetration to the bottom and the cut plug video was around 6 inches visibility. All the silt or mud in the water just made it impossible for light to pass through the water or the camera to shoot through it, more garbage video. On the plus side the surface video was great now only If I had underwater video to go with it.

At this point it looks as if I will just have to try again next week, there is no record rain in the forecast so I will just shoot for Wednesday because the clearing on Tuesday might clear up the big rivers.

The season has changed and the Columbia river Chinook are all but gone so yesterday I went sturgeon fishing.  The dinosaurs were biting light and you just have to leave your pole until they are taking line. I find that in areas of slow current they tend to bite light, in areas like the wall above Roaster Rock on the Washington side, which is a great hole, they tend to hit hard because the bait looks like it is going to wash down river. I put up a video on my you tube channel of the best one, and I was totally not watching my pole. I didn't know I had the fish until he was jumping, thanks to the fact that cameras don't play solitaire we got the video.
I guess I should have known this but there is Crawdads in the Columbia river, for some reason I thought they would be in small bodies of water or mountain lakes. You could totally put a trap in where I was and hit a few Crawdads, I am not suggesting that I would eat the ones from the Columbia but you could catch them there...
Happy fishing and enjoy whatever you do outdoors

https://youtu.be/O5pNNeGFOjY

Hello people,
I have started a new youtube account. Currently it is just underwater video but I am going to add some beginner how to setup videos real soon. I think that most amateurs like myself are just not sure if they are doing the right thing and when they see the pros catching lots of fish get a little discouraged, DON'T BE, they do it everyday, all day. So I just want to pass on a few things I have learn and show you some cool video that supports some of these things.

I bought 2 new cameras that perform better under water than the Polaroid. These Okuma Water Wolf cameras are smaller and have a more streamline shape which makes the troll perfectly so you can see all the action.  The only down side is that you have no setting control, on and off.

My biggest pet peeve is hitting the bottom hard to fish the bottom, I have seen on the video that when you hit the bottom your gear stops performing and you are not fishing. I am not saying that a bump here and there is not ok, but shorten your dropper and don't ground out (lol).
Here is a picture of the cameras and you can see some of the video on my youtube channel, it is the same name as my blog with no spaces, the search will want to add the spaces, or try the link below.

www.youtube.com/channel/UCTqNye5k94DYmQjJ5AASAKw

Hi All,
Look what I got for Christmas, it is a Polaroid action cam XS100.

I have been looking at this camera for quite sometime so I put it on my Amazon wish list and under the tree is was. lol. Last weekend I took a broke flasher and with the help of a drill and a few bolts I made a camera planer. I tested the troll but due to mental error I was not able to get and video yet. With any luck I will be getting some video of some rainbows in the next few weeks. Wish me luck...