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Upbeat Times


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Annual SUMMER Guide #1 The Great Pacific Northwest


Charleston, OR. ~ Happy June everyone! Wow, what a weekend we had at Basin Tackle in late May. T e ocean conditions were great for getting out and catch- ing rockfi sh, lingcod, and hali- but. Mid -May seemed to be the day for halibut however with the numbers slowing down for sub- sequent days. T e biggest halibut we saw and the winner of our derby was a 61+ pound monster caught on Saturday. Check out


the pics on our Facebook page! T at’s one happy fi sherman and I think we should all surprise him by showing up at his house for a fresh fi sh din- ner! T e Ling- cod and rock fi sh bite has been amazing so far with a huge amount of fi sh landed every day.


Sharkys


Charters was in the thick of it on aſt er three great days of halibut fi shing. Sharkys and a lot of our customers were bringing in a very good grade of lingcod in addition to limits of black rock- fi sh. Six to eight ounces of lead were the trick to get down and it seemed that those using speed


jigs were having the best success. A speed jig is a hydrodynamic


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YOUR FISHING REPORTS • STORIES & EDUCATION FOR NORTHERN CALIFORNIA AND COAST OF OREGON by Rob Gensorek


fast and minimize the eff ects of driſt . T ere’s nothing wrong with good old fash- ioned bullet and diamond but


jigs sometimes


a little extra edge is helpful. Crabbing in the bay and in the ocean


remain


slow to good de- pending on how you’re


holding


your tongue and if you remem- bered to wear your lucky fi sh- ing hat. In the midst of all this fantastic


engineered jig designed to mini- mize drag and increase rate of descent, essentially it’s an elon- gated jig with a heavier bottom and it slices through the water fast. T is helps get to get down


fi shing madness, Mitch, a good customer and certifi ed steelhead junkie came in and showed me a picture of a unicorn that he took. OK it’s not really a unicorn but


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JOKES & Humor # 6 When a soldier came to the clinic where I work for an MRI, he was put into the machine by an attractive, young technician. Sometime later, when the examination was


over, he was helped out of the machine by a far older woman. The soldier remarked, “How long was I in there for?” ~


I knew that my husband’s hearing had deteriorated after our friend, new to the city, asked where he could meet some singles. “Well,” said my husband, “I see them in the Kmart parking lot diving for fries.” “Dear”, I intervened, “Singles, not Seagulls!’


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