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- January 4, 2005 at 2:13 am #81308
  sooperfly
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  Caught my first fish of ’05. Yesterday on the Methow River. Pretty chilly out and the wind was blowing, but there wasn’t hardly a soul on the river.
  
  😀
  
  http://tinyurl.com/4x8lg
- January 4, 2005 at 5:30 am #85150
  mossback
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  Looks like it was worth it. Nice fish.
- January 7, 2005 at 9:55 pm #85151
  Anonymous
  Nice fish!!!
- January 7, 2005 at 9:57 pm #85152
  Anonymous
  Indeed!!!
  
  McPil
- January 15, 2005 at 4:12 am #85153
  brownster145
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  Wow… that fish is pretty bright for this time of year up there, isn’t it? I still haven’t gotten over there like I’ve been meaning to. Maybe next year…
  
  I might as well join the fun, here. I caught this fish on the last day of ’04 on the Green River (native, released).
  
  Still looking for my first fish of ’05. 🙄
  
  Andrew
- January 19, 2005 at 7:28 pm #85154
  sooperfly
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  Not really, most of the ones we have caught so far have been just like this. Maybe the males might be a bit darker. That’s a great fish you have there! Would that be net marks toward the back ? Or maybe it duked it out with a seal? 😀
- January 21, 2005 at 10:22 pm #85155
  brownster145
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  Yeah, those are net scars from the Muckleshoots’ gillnets, which are, about 4 days per week, strung all across the Duwamish waterway up toward Seattle. When the nets are in, you won’t see many fish headed upriver; they take a lot of fish down there. I guess this one was strong enough to fight her way back out, though.
  
  Sadly, about 5% of the fish I catch in this river have net scars, and those are the lucky ones. I think I need to head Methow-ward. 😀
  
  Andrew
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