Overrated: Speypages
Underrated: PNW Flyfishing.
Underrated: PNW Flyfishing.
over-rated vs. under-rated
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Over-rated: trout
Under-rated: char
Under-rated: char
Rob Allen
Life of the Party
Most days yes...
Underrated. Columbia River Smallmouth
Overrated east side lake cutthroat
East Coaster
Steelhead
Reading this, it struck me that "Pineapple on Pizza" makes a better band name than culinary idea.....
Jim F.
Still a Genuine Montana Fossil
Or is that X-Rated?
Underrated , surf perchGO!
ok, each post (you shouldn't be limited to one overall) should include one over-rated game fish out here in the PNW ad one under-rated game fish here in the PNF (doesn't have to be native nor does it have to unique to other posts). All I ask is that each post has one of each (there is no wrong or right answer).
For me, right now in this moment.....
over-rated: Deschutes Redsides (red-bands; rainbows, etc etc etc)
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under-rated: whitefish
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That first part doesn't make any sense. Everybody knows the Puget Sound coconut is only second to the Arctic tern in terms of miles migrated each year. Oscillating between northern and southern polar waters is no mean feat when all you have is Husk, a milky gyroscope and three black eyes.
Little known fact... the UW Huskies are named after the Puget Sound Coconut....on account of the tenacious and fibrous Husk that is.
Overrated: Carp (basically one giant goldfish), resident coho (they are fun and all but are nothing compared to their ocean run counterparts)
Underrated: Ocean run Coho (you never know what type of fight you will get), Humpies (they fight the best pound for pound), and Hatchery brat steelhead.
Underrated: Ocean run Coho (you never know what type of fight you will get), Humpies (they fight the best pound for pound), and Hatchery brat steelhead.
It makes perfect sense when you consider that humpkins have been running the Sound since the retreat of the Vashon Glaciation, but that Puget Sound coconuts have only been making their way through the straits since they were incidentally introduced in 1859 when Captain George Pickett confused his coconut stash for cannonballs, and in a drunken stupor, ordered his men to load the cannon and fire coconuts from the USS Massachusetts in a mistaken prelude to the Pig War. Those coconuts, lacking the mass of cannonballs, did not reach their intended target on land, and fell into the Sound. The colonial coconuts colonized first the Strait and North Sound rivers, then established themselves on Vancouver Island, and were the progenitors of the PS coconuts we see today. Sure, they are now established, perhaps even naturalized, but, amazing migration notwithstanding, they are hardly native.
Fringe theory, I'll admit, but one somewhat-supported by recent geological studies.
As we all know, current geological theory holds that the western Coast Batholith of southwest BC was displaced over 1900km from what is now the Baja region of California/Mexico to British Columbia in just a few million years between the cretaceous and the paleocene--incredibly rapidly.
Is it so hard to believe that these cryptid coconuts are a remnant population that was brought north with the rest of the batholith?
flybill
Life of the Party
It's really hard to dip the beer and then lick it off the bottle! Just sayin'!
This
Probably worth adding, when that Vashon Ice Sheet started retreating, and all the pent up Coconuts floating in glacial Lake Missoula were released, they scoured what we know as the channeled scablands clean and had a clear shot to the vast Pacific. You could hear them as they floated by Skamania, all of em singing David Hasslehoff's pop sensation "Limbo Dance" their collective brain was thinking "Jamaica is just around the corner." But as we all know, it wasn't. Washagoul was.
Washagoul is not remotely Jamaica.
All you could hear when the billions of coconuts passed by Washagoul was disappointment, specifically the clip-clopping of the half-nuts who gave up when they realized their shattered domes wouldn't make it to the Island Paradise. It wasn't until the Coconuts passed Portland International Airport that things started looking up, one of the Coconuts up front had tasted salt.....it wouldn't be long now before there would be Limes...
Pretty soon the mood lifted, all of 'em singing "Put the Lime in the Coconut...."
(sidebar I know this is ridiculous but the number of in-german comments on the Hasselhoff video was in itself pretty damn funny)
