"I'm the mayhem," said fishing guide Branden Trager in reference to his fishing and hunting guide company Adventures with Mayhem Outfitters. The business is based in Brush Prairie, Wash., but the Trager family splits time between Brush Prairie and the Long Beach Peninsula. "We're nomadic," he said.
Trager was in Astoria on the docks of the West End Mooring Basin on Saturday, Aug. 15 to ****** ist with the Lipstick Salmon Slayers tournament, a women-only salmon fishing tournament that brings hundreds to the Columbia River Buoy 10 fishery to compete for cash prizes and empower women fishers.
In line with the spirit of the event, Trager said he was there to support his wife Erica — the organizer of the tourney. She was busy at the event's other location setting up for a celebratory dinner that would lure the women anglers from the docks to a dinner that evening.
Trager's singular goal that day was to provide an inclusive atmosphere for the female salmon slayers lined up on the dock.
The intent was "to have a safe, welcoming environment and not have to worry about being the only girl on board, because that happens a lot as a fishing guide," said Trager. "We have a lot of instances where there is just one girl on the boat. Of course, we make her feel welcomed but it's super fun when it's six gals on the boat. Just being with each other while they are just having the best day of their lives."

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