You know you are a lowliner when---

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You might be a Lowliner when your hand troll friend highliners you in a coho bite.
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You might be a lowliner when you dont acutually know what a lowliner is...You mean other people acually catch tons of fish?
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I am probably a lowliner since 3 drunks in a skiff turned in more coho's in the golden north salmon derby than I caught all fall....ha.
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You know you are a Lowliner when you wait 7 hours for an unloading hoist because it takes an average of over two hours a boat and you are into the hoist, unloaded, untied, and pulled out in 6 min 39 seconds.
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Salty,
or the sport guys take longer to get thier fish out than you do...
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Lazy t. Good one. I know they catch more on some days.
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You might be a Lowliner when you are still in the hole at the August closure.
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Pull up Salty, you're flying too low! Time to find something positive to post. Any little thing.
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The chum trolling is so poor I went clamming today. Believe it or not I shook more kings than I caught chums yesterday. An unprecedented and amazing testament to both the weakness of this years chum run and the super abundance of Chinook here this year.
The eel grass had wiped out being able to see the cockle signs so the clamming was also at my current lowliner level.
But, on the positive note you requested, I was accompanied by Iris, the wonder dog, who is my new best friend this year, my bride of over 40 years, and our friend Anne. They were all enthusiastic clammers and the four of us had a great time.
Also, after days of rain (over 5 inches this weekend) the sun has come out and it is a beautiful evening. A longtime troller friend has agreed to come up for a drink and story sharing. Even us lowliners can find the sliver lining:)
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Glad to hear it.

Sometimes the only problem is we're worrying too much and trying too hard.

Help yourself to a shrug and a smile.

You know you can do this.

Think of all those noble king salmon who chose to yield themselves up to your talents in the past.

That is why we love trophy animals so much. They are proof that in one shining moment, at least, we did something right.
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You know you are a Lowliner when you run the gear after a collision and it is your best pull of the week.
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You know you are a Lowliner when your crew takes an evening cat sitting job to supplement the crew share.
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You know you are a Lowliner when the fishing is slower than a salted slug going uphill.
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Salty: The Rodney Dangerfield of trolling.
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LOL entropy.

There’s power in looking silly and not caring that you do. Amy Poehler

Entropy1, I take my work, salmon trolling, very seriously. I do not take myself so seriously.
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As a first year fisherman reflecting on my season and knowing that I can't quite yet tell the boss at the regular job to shove it, I feel uniquely qualified to contribute to this thread.

This happened to me. Several times (by a damn good fisherman, tho):
Salty wrote:You might be a Lowliner when your hand troll friend highliners you in a coho bite.
I have found my own reliable determiner of lowliner status -
You know you're a lowliner when you drag near a sea lion haulout and they lift their sleepy heads to see what's for breakfast - and quickly decide to resume their nap until a better prospect swings by.
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Good one Hans
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I saw the original post when I first signed up to this forum and had a great time reading it! A lot of these make more sense now that I have actually fished a season... here's one I came up with on a slow Coho bite down by duke island (maybe that's another determiner..)
You know you're a lowliner when: You think it's efficient that, after your last 'big haul', you don't have to re-ice because there is enough left over for another 4 day trip.
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Good one robot.
You know you are a Lowliner when you are still trying to make expenses.........in November.......in the biggest Alaska troll season ever.
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You know your a low liner when your tax preparer says not to worry, you don't have to show a profit because you make enough money at your other job (no joke, he really did!)
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