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Jason Harmsen

Jason Harmsen

Salmon and steelhead fishing guide; owner of Steel Obsession Guide Service LLC in Vancouver, Washington

Jul 24, 2026

MarlonHOST
5:57
Maybe let's just go back to what was your earliest fishing memory?
6:00
Oh, man.
6:03
Earliest fishing memory would probably be wobbler fishing with my dad back in the day, with my dad and my Uncle Wally.
6:15
And actually, I think we were shad fishing, honestly.
6:20
I think we were shad fishing, and I was just catching them left and right, left and right, and we were in a hog line.
6:27
Because we were going to do some oversized sturgeon that day or something like that.
6:33
And then, you know, we'd use the shad for some bait.

8 MINS LATER

MarlonHOST
15:01
Whatever you catch, you catch.
MarlonHOST
12:30
What are you buying for your line? Are you buying any mono? Are you buying only
12:34
for fluoro? I'm going to get one spool of 25-pound mono.
12:36
Okay.
12:36
And then I'm going to get...
12:45
Probably a spool of 20-pound fluoro and a spool of 15-pound fluoro.
12:51
Okay.
12:53
That's pretty much it.
MarlonHOST
16:51
That 9-foot Okuma rod is pretty hard to

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