Gopro in Crawfish Trap . What is under the Willamette River

Attached a Gopro to my crawfish trap in the Willamette River. This was spawned out of curiosity to see if there are any crawfish in the Willamette. We had zero crawfish.

[@rapaciousj]

Sweet perspective! I love your idea of using the PVC pipe to expand the frame of the go pro! Nice work!

[@jalepeno5903]

I don’t know about eating anything out of that river PK, since I was born in the 70’s, it was always a personal goal to never let the water from that river get on my skin.

[@kevinrivera1492]

Suprised there wasn't a body or bag of needles float by

[@normancole3415]

I think he's upstream above Oregon City

[@kevinrivera1492]

Or newberg, kinda clean there

[@westcoaster3763]

​@kevinrivera1492 it isn't that great by Albany so I am not sure Newberg would be any better😂

[@otitan1]

I didn't realize how good we have it here in the PNW until I drove across the country. Many rivers and lakes make the long tom and fern ridge seem palatable

[@patricia2645]

Hate to say it, but the Willamette is too polluted. Are there any other shellfish, as well? I live in and on the Rogue River, and we have bunches of crawfish. Caught a bright blue one, apparently sacred to some native cultures. I'm glad I left it there, alive.

[@hedoesthingspdx]

I think Pike Minnow should be great crab bait!

[@hxhdfjifzirstc894]

I think they also eat juvenile salmon and steelhead, which is all the more reason to feed them to crabs.

[@gettosurfer]

Apparently, not a lot of crawfish. That's for sure.

[@oregonlife]

4 hour soak time, zero crawfish.

[@shakeandbaked1]

I haven’t seen one in the Willamette before, I always assumed they would be in there as the tributaries have them. The bass don’t seem to respond well to crawdad patterns in there either.

[@NorthwestOpenSeason]

Looks like a spot we need to go fishing and feed the raccoons

[@cory8791]

That's what I was thinking!

[@allistrata]

And 500,000 gallons of raw sewage...last month? 2 months ago? IDK it happens so often, I can't keep track.

[@johnbussell1863]

It's getting old all the mistakes they keep making with all the sewage. Like they need to do better.

[@F-N-C]

There are tons of fish right there

[@MIRVECTORA]

fresh chicken rarely works for freshwater crayfish. Put it in the sun for a few days in a bag and wait until it stinks. The same works well for salt water crabs.

[@edquier40]

Another good cheap bait is a can of tuna cat food.

[@chimyshark]

that's not true at all and pure superstition. All scavengers prefer fresh meat because it's less likely to spread illness and is also more nutritious compared to decaying flesh. All scents no matter how dull or stinky travel the same speed in the water. The only thing that improves scent trail is water current. Also, our noses are totally different from crabs' chemosensitive appendages. Just because you feel like stinky chicken smells stronger doesn't mean a crab does. I know you're gonna say that you've had good success with stinky bait, and I don't doubt it. Your success only means that crabs are hardly picky between fresh and rotten. Your success does NOT mean that crabs prefer rotten bait.

[@MIRVECTORA]

@@chimyshark true true - crabs and crayfish love rotten and smelly. tested on fishing by me personally

[@MIRVECTORA]

@@edquier40 sometime tuna not working

[@darrelneidiffer6777]

I live in southeast Alaska and can say rotten bird is the best crab bait. Dunge's anyway.

[@ricric1]

I like the idea of this would like to do this in the water when crossing the bridge traveling to New Orleans. And the Mississippi River

[@peterstauffer1741]

Thanks for the video. I hoped to see a sturgeon.

[@danschulte113]

tons of crawfish in the willamette. where is this?

[@joshcult745]

Hey ok what part of the Willamette is this.

[@roguedog6799]

We used to go up the top of North Umpqua at Tokatee and Hamburger is the ticket we'd get 1/2 a five gallon bucket in a few hours.

[@anthonylong4015]

Little river is good also

[@keithsanders8843]

I no it well I lived in glide and went to 11th and 12th grade there but we got a bunch out of little river

[@anthonylong4015]

@@keithsanders8843 I graduated from glide high school in 1990

[@roguedog6799]

@@keithsanders8843 Ya nice big ones and nice and healthy really cold water ( :

[@jalepeno5903]

You need to throw a jig with a chartreuse grub down there for those pike minnow. Man those are thick in the Willamette.

[@hxhdfjifzirstc894]

I was thinking those must be Northern pikeminnows... used to be called squawfish, until that word became incorrect.

[@WayneThomas1963]

That is very interesting to see what's down there under the river. Good video. What happened to your friend Brian? I haven't seen you guy's surf fishing together for a while now. I always enjoy watching your guy's videos, lots of energy.

[@oregonlife]

We still talk. Just busy with life and family. We plan on doing another video together soon.

[@S.E.C-R]

What are the white tapping things? And where’s all the garbage that we are always told fills the Willamette?

[@randystebleton]

What are the sounds? It moves the with the zip ties. Just curious 😊

[@randystebleton]

Like they move to the sounds? It's awesome.

[@randystebleton]

Like meters. Measuring.

[@edquier40]

You can sure hear those two strokers!

[@captainmorgan5106]

Obviously, there's a healthy population of bass. And suckers..

[@biknjak]

Pike minnows? I always thought those were chubs. Used to catch them in the South Umpqua River....🤔

[@daviddickson1166]

On the Columbia big money catching pike minnow..they have check in stations mail you a check after you fill out w2s...couple old guys made 90k in 5 months

[@biknjak]

​@@daviddickson1166Wow. We used to kill the chubs and leave them for the skunks and raccoons, because they ate trout and salmon eggs!

[@chrisspriggs3774]

peamouth chub and pike minnow look similar.

[@theoldsurffisher1943]

Pretty skinny SM Bass??

[@hxhdfjifzirstc894]

That is the Northern Pikeminnow.

[@etamaman]

Post spawn

[@mtwhyte8505]

Gotta let it set for 24-48 hours. How many crawfish do you catch?

[@S.E.C-R]

Where are the river was this?

[@MrZomg17]

1:44,1:45 what kind of fish is THAT??

[@danielalexander3777]

Something new in there home so they had to check it out only if u was fishing

[@Fuzzysword]

Lots of pike minnows

[@Midas-fw1gp]

Well there's 9 minutes I'll never get back. I was expecting something, anything a UFO, Jimmy Hoffa, the kraken, Hecklefish but no it wasn't to be

[@natas199]

Invasive species Nice! 😂

[@michaelmullen8153]

Governed Tom McCall did a he'll of a job getting the river cleaned up in the 70s I have drank straight out of it in emergency situations in my teens in my 60s now worst thing I got going on is my kids were born wet a naked as far as fern ridge road it not very deep with a mud bottom as well as most streams feeding it that's why it looks bad. Also show me 1 lake or stream that don't have a mercury advisore.

[@Chris-z1y1h]

Mountain white fish!!!

[@paulplatosh2738]

Pike minnow aka squawfish

[@richardc2803]

The williie is too polluted to eat local critters and fish migratory fish like salmon are ok.

[@michaelcandido2824]

With 4 million lbs of radioactive waste from Yakima fund site…..yea no thanks. All that water is beyond polluted and then some.

[@joegagznos2312]

That's a crab trap would never catch crawfish way too big of holes