So when I signed up to the site it asked about interests and fish and one of the fish was salmon. Someone told me there are no salmon in the southern hemisphere, are they wrong? Do you guys have salmon? Sort of asking for my wife, she loves cooked salmon (I don't) but also for me because salmon sushi is awesome. Our go to sushi is salmon, yellow tail (hamachi, I think you guys call it kingfish) and bluefin tuna.
And on the media thing, my feeling is we should feel like crap. Our president is an idiot who doesn't have 1/1000th of what it takes to lead this country, he has pissed off all of our allies, he sucks up to Putin, he's awful. He denied the COVID-19 problem, we have 4% of the world's population and around 25% of the cases and 21% of the deaths. That is not good. We suck and that is on him and it is shameful that he still has supporters.
As a sort of European I can see good things about America, especially the cold states (I grew up in Wisconsin, 250 miles north of Chicago). Cold state people take care of each other because if you don't, you might have to read in the paper that car you didn't stop to check out? Yeah, those people froze to death. Some Americans are super decent people. Easy to get to know, want to help.
But oh boy, did Trump expose that we have a lot of crappy people. I thought racism and misogyny were sort of done in this country, I knew it happened but it happened in dark places away from the public eye. Trump dragged it out into the open and made it "OK". He's set us back decades.
OK, enough of that. So where are the 20 pound trout? Are we talking fresh water? I've heard you guys have some awesome fly fishing. But 20 pound? 40 pound? That has to be ocean fish right?
I taught myself how to fly fish from a book written in the 1950's so I have a really weird casting technique. I haul on the back cast but apparently in the 1950's nobody knew how to haul on the forward cast, so my stroke is to flip it back with a haul, but on the forward cast I pump my arm forward to load the rod. After decades of fishing on my own with no guides, I made enough money to go a glamping trip with guides, they looked at me like was nuts when I cast, they were all flip and haul, no movement forward or back. They shut up when they realized I could put the fly exactly where they told me, at 45-55 feet, I can put it where they wanted.
So what are you go to fish to eat? How do you catch them?
Here, salmon is trolling on a downrigger, 300 feet down is pretty normal, it's a haul to get them up. And we have to fish barbless for salmon so there is some skill needed to keep tension on them. Halibut is easy, troll a chovy. Rockfish are jigs.