Updated March 10th, 2007
H20 FISHES HIGH ON WILSON WITH SUCCESS
I started high on the Wilson and fished down to mile marker 18. hooked and landed this fish.
Saw one more but could not get to it. I talked to a Trooper, said my fish was only the second
he'd seen all day. I know that there are alot of fish in the wilson now but its fishing a bit too
high still. I think in a couple of weeks if the river lowers it will be good fishing. the fish might
look a little rosey but there should be a bunch in there. h2o
Updated March 7th, 2007
TEAM SALMON FISHES HIGH ON COASTAL CAPILARIES
Fantastic weather yielded only a couple fish for the whole crew. We fished some beautiful
water and blew Matt's socks off with the scenery.....but unfortunately, that was about all
we could offer.
We had pretty recent 'intell' that the fish were high. Accordingly, we hit every
river we could. Hard. Our arsenal was impressive but almost ineffective. Matt Reid
caught a few nice Trout, Ghost Face caught a Steelhead Jack and Pops hooked THREE fish
and landed one. No pic available. Got a problem with that? Buy Pops a digital camera.
Updated February 28th, 2007
By Hellcat
TEAM SALMON would like to welcom MATT REID to Oregon this coming weekend! Matt
is from Michigan and fishes the Great Lakes area. A good sized crew of us are going to greet
Matt on Friday night and head to Tillamook. With our sites on big Natives, we'll look forward
to posting any pics we might have the fortune of taking! Stay Tuned........
Updated February 20th, 2007
By Hellcat
Big Tone, JED, B Dog and myself made the property assault on President's Day. Water
looked great, could've been a bit higher, even. Couple trout caught as well as Big Tone
tying into. landing and releasing a dark Winter. A tough five miles was hiked and several
bad spills were taken. All in all, one heluva fun day!
Click Here To Watch Big Tone Cross Treacherous Waters On EC
Video-Big Tone Crosses Eagle In High EC Water
Big Tone Runs A Drift Rig.........
Jed and Tone
View From Top O' Property
Updated February 18th, 2007
By Hellcat
Mila and I made the weekend trip over to the Imperial Lodge, in Maupin
Oregon. They have made many improvements, additions, and just an outright amazing
place to enjoy the Deschutes in comfort. Full bar with TV's, great restaurant and a ton of
new rooms. Oh yeah, we managed to get two days of fishing in too. We hooked nine fish,
one of which was a Steelie that snapped my tippet. Saw a few Summers here and there.
We later snapped a rod on fish, but that's another story!
Congratulations to Mila for hooking four fish, her very first trip!!!
Mila on the Deschutes River
Hellcat finds a Stonefly-Taker in high water on the Deschutes River
Stopping at the fly shop on top of the hill on Saturday morning, after a nice night at the Lodge,
we picked up a couple 12 foot leaders and two yarnie-styrofoam indicators (Fly-Fisherman's
bobber). Stoked out with a box of nymphs from Nookslayer, we rigged up some sweet two and
three fly leaders. We fished from above the locked gate all the way down to the lower canyon
access. The river below White River is pretty high and murky. Everything above, including
our Locked Gate hike, was darn near as clear as The Deschutes gets. We hooked four fish
above, including one Summer. The lower section today kicked out bigger trout, and we will
be loading video on Photo Albums for you to check out!
See you next time on the river!
Hellcat
Updated February 9th, 2007
By H2O
Pretty slow up the gorge today. We saw 3 fish landed today and a lot of fishermen.
I went one for two and Dave had a take down. My friend Brent was also with us today.
It turned out to be a very nice day up there though.
The 5# 'day saving' Chromer finally took a single jenson egg on a #4
hook. She fought a lot bigger than she was.
H2O
Updated February 4th, 2007
By Team Salmon
Below BDog's Blue Heron pic, you will find two links for reports on this update.
Browse to Salmon Steelhead Sound Off
Browse to All Around Sturgeon Reports
Updated January 30th, 2007
By H2O
Well, he did it in back to back days. H2O gives us two straight days of Steelhead
crack cocaine: Steelhead Pictures. I don't have a story for this fish from H2O, but
I would bet, if you pinged him on the Fish Talk page with a post or a private message,
he would certainly oblige you with the details.
H2O's 16lb Native Winter Hen
Updated January 29th, 2007
By H2O
H2O with a Bruiser!
Sunday my friend Brent and I met up with Meskel and made the hike up to the deadline. Only
to find out everyone else was parking up there. By the way, I am still stretching the cramps out
of my hamstrings. When we got there we were happy to see plenty of fish on the bank already.
Before brent and I could get into the water Meskel Had a fish hooked! A very big fish that he
fought like a champ but ended up loosing at the bank. Then about ten minutes later he hooked
another one. Brent was soon to follow. After a while we moved down to the tail out of the meat
hole (my usual box). I hooked two and lost them quikly. Then I tailed a fish for this guy Gorden
who was fishing below me.
In turn he gave me his spot and this scented egg thing that he made. Three casts later I hook a
pig that fought me for at least 15 minutes, it was a brute and it finally took off down stream. We
had to do a three person hand off to get around a tree that was impassable in the water.
Thanks to Gordon and Meskel I landed a beautiful double digit wild fish. RAD. We also got video
of all of us. 
H2O
Updated January 29th, 2007
By Pops, AKA, Sal Monid AKA DAHELLER
I spent Sunday poking around and fishing the lower Sandy from Lewis and Clark up to Oxbow.
The river continues to be choked by large accumulations of sand that came down the river in
November. I talked to a FS guy at Zig Zag and they did an aerial recon of the headwaters of the
river, on the flanks of Mt Hood. Apparently there were some massive failures of old glacial
deposits that appear to be the culprit. Basically, the bottom in any medium to slow water area is
covered in sand. Drift fishing is very wierd because there is no bounce as the weight goes over
the sand. I also figure that the fish do not like to hang around where they get a gill full of sand
every breath they take.
We ended up fishing the upper end of Oxbow on some very nice water where the channel splits
into three. I fished it with jigs and colorado spinner and got zip. I talked with a couple of drift
boaters who came down from Dodge and they each had a couple of fish. They said they were
getting them where it was rocky or semi rocky bottom.
It will be interesting to see how long it takes for the stuff to flush through the system. The plan
is to dismantle Marmot dam this fall and to let the flows flush the sediment backed up behind
the dam. I don't think that anyone counted on the November dump.
I would be interested to hear if anyone has scoped the river above Dodge. It is high enough
gradient up there that perhaps things are good.
We had a great day but I can't provide a picture with a dandy steelhead like the boys who went
up the Gorge.
Sal
Updated January 28th, 2007
By H3LLCAT
Team Salmon was out in droves this weekend trying to find Steelhead where ever
we could. With some of our crew still in action as we speak, we sit at 16 Steelhead hooked
so far this weekend. Most of these fish are coming by virtue of some kind of small
egg pattern. Whether we were drift fishing or fly fishing, the presentation is the same: egg
patterns in yarnie form of some kind. Rocket Redd was a color I noticed a lot of guides
using and ended up producing for me as well.
This was a hatchery fish, as you can see by the tag in the top of it on the above-water
photo. I released it anyway.
Nookslayer also found some chrome X 2! His rig was hot as he dead drifted egg patterns
chased by some hand-tied Bunny Leaches......yielding him this success.....
Congrats to Nook who landed and released both of these beauties!
Videos will be available soon from the trips this weekend. One of which includes nice
underwater footage.
Team Salmon was featuring JPrellman this weekend as well! It was great to have John
along with us as his presence almost always ensures bent rods! Not to mention, due to
all the hard-core extreme sports he does, he is one heluva pace setter on a long hike!
Look for your fish next time out, John.
H3LLCAT, Nookslayer & JPrellman
Also hot on the trigger this weekend were Ghost Face Killa and his boy, Brig.
Hot on the heels of a couple All Around Angler reports, these two guys went and got
theirs!
Brig with Steel
Ghost Face represents with this colorful Steelhead!!
Well, feel free to drop by the Fish Talk forum and contribute any info you might have, or be
looking for. Until next time.....Team Salmon walks into the sunset.....
End Of Report.
Updated January 22nd, 2007
By H3LLCAT
I woke up on Saturday morning and decided I had to get the new Diamond Back drift boat
out on the water. By the end of the weekend, I had floated the river twice. Nothing like
a nice, dry weekend after what we've had for weather lately here in the PacNW. We even
managed to hook a couple fish. (Go to Photo Albums and browse to more photos.)
Hellcat Busts New Boat Skunk!
33.5 inch 13.11 lb Hen
Not red hot action, by any means, but along with this fish, Pigsticker also tied into
a nice fish as the Wild Hair drifted over some choppy water in between a coupla runs.
Ghost Face, JD and Pigsticker in the Wild Hair
Besides both of the fish we hooked, we also saw several more hooked. Each day.
Boondoggling, or Sidedrifting, seemed to be the preferred method by most of the
sled fisherman. There were quite a few bobber fisherman throwing an assortment
of gear under floats, as well. 1084 ran quite a few different plastics while Pops
ran the gammet, including his Canadian, 'spoon behind a bobber' rig. They each had a
missed bobber down, respectively.
With the water so clear, any kind of choppiness to the surface certainly seemed to make
the difference for the two fish we hooked as well as those observed. I recommend floural
carbon leader line as well as extra lead throughout your terminal rigging so you may drop
straight down as soon your cast hits the drink. Start your drift right away.
This Drift marked my very first marabou jig fish. Yippee!
Updated January 15th, 2007
By Nookslayer
Meskel and I headed out today to brave the cold and slam some steel. We stopped in town to
chat with the guys at The Gorge Fly Shop and see what the deal was with the blow out and the
rules of where we could go. We were happy to find that there was still a LOT of fishable water,
but nothing was the same. The area that we had great sucess at last season just flat out doesn't
exist anymore. There are massive silt deposits and the river now has three seperate channel
there.
Up above, the areas that we fished before were still in tack and as Meskel and I found... holding
fish. I got into the first that I battled through 4 runs only to have my line snap on my dropper
(we were on the fly today). My heart sunk. The fish gave us 3 or 4 jumps and was just big and
chrome. Meskel hooked up and then lost is a minute later only to immediatly throw his fly back
and be smacked AGAIN! I don't htink I 've ever seen that! At the end of the day we were 0 for 3
and are bringing a net next time. All the flies that the fish took were tied by Brian and I the
nights preceeding this trip so that is an added bonus.
Tight lines...
Nookslayer
Updated January 8th, 2007
Two runs have gone down since last update. I'll bring everyone up to speed real
quick: H2O and a pal of his made a run up to the East Fork of the Lewis over the
weekend. Although they arrived to fishable conditions, they quickly found themselves
fishing on rising water.
While H2O was making the trip to our north, Pops, 1HookedBeak and myself cruised
over to Landman's property along the Clack. Having special unheralded Team Salmon
access came into serious play as we had to traverse much flooded valley bottom
to get to our favorite holes, or "boxes" as Ghost Face and Pigsticker say.
Ghost Face walks Landman's lower boxes in search of Steelhead
I stuck with my recent favorite rig to run, the pink worm (or any variation thereof)
under a round cork float. I love these floats because they are extrememly bouyant
and allow me to weight, not only my terminal gear, but my leader as well. I like to
weight the leader with a piece of hollow core. Very sleak on the retrieve. Almost no
twisting, even in boily runs.
After walking the whole property, and only spotting one Steelhead clearly on the move,
we hiked back out. Luckily, I did fool a really strong fighting, fat Rainbow Trout into
taking one of my pig tailed pink ring worms. Not quite the chrome I was looking for, but
turned out to be breakfast, none the less.
Until next time, tip up and tight lines.
H3LLCAT
Updated January 2nd, 2007
A good handful of Team Salmon members made a run up to Nookslayer and
Meskel's Washougal River Property in search of some Winter Steelhead. We had
a great location, waterwise, as well as top notch accomodations! Fishing from the top
deck was definitely how B Dog Lobey rolled.
B Dog Lobey on Washington's Washougal River
We spotted a fish move up under the flood lights around eleven pm, but other than
that, nothing to be found. I am excited to get a few guys and try this again after
the rain we are getting right now subsides.
Nookslayer and Meskel Gear Up to Gear Down. Burrrrrrrrr.
Other recent activity includes DAHELLER hitting the property for some Winters on
Friday. No luck as those fish through that area seem to be what I'm calling 'freeway
fish', which means, they are just moving through.
Also, H2O and Ghost Face Killa made a SW Washington assault to no avail. Cowlitz was
still out, although local reports were calling fish being caught.
Finally, DAHELLER made the run to the Sandy River today and found himself
amazed by the amount of river sediment boiling around the river in cloud shapes.
He compared the river to the type of water you would find in the SW part of the US
where the rivers are mostly sand deposits. He fished from Dabney down with no luck.
Tips Up!
Updated December 26th, 2006
Several runs have gone down since the last report: Wilson has been drifted by Pig
sticker and Whalen; they didn't do anything from Mills down, but they did see three
bright Kings taken. Also, please note the take out at SS Bridge has a considerable
hill of river deposit at the take out and requires extra rope and no fear of dragging
your boat across it.
Gavin, myself and Pops made the Barton to Carver run this weekend which was epic
due to the fact it was the virgin trip for our new Guide Model 16' Black Diamond
Back drift boat. No fish though. Water was pretty trashed below Deep Creek. Lots
of pressure above. Mostly sled pressure but some bank. There was one fish hooked at
the Carver take out by an angler waiting for his shuttle. He lost it.
On Christmas Eve Day I had the pleasure of fishing Gavin's property.
I was taking someone down there as a bit of a Christmas gift, so I was
hoping for a perfect green high flow. That's just what I got. We fished
hardware, roe (drifted and under a cork) and plastics under corks.
We hooked and lost a big beautiful Winter buck right at the bank in some
fast water! Not before we had hooked and landed a dusty Chinook. Late
to the party I guess. Was still plenty firey. Shot off the bank upon release
in an instant.
Hellcat tightens the screws on a Winter
Updated December 19th, 2006
By Hellcat
1Hooked Beak made the run to the Wilson today with hopes of water taking on some
kind of green look to it. He could picture his impending clinic with confidence as he
came across a 'somewhat fishable' Wilson River.
Starting as high as 16, 1Hooked Beak frog leaped to known 'Boxes' between there and
Mills Bridge. To his surprise, there were very few dudes. He pounded his self proclaimed
best roe ever, underneath bobs and behind a heavy slink. Nothing anywhere.
According to 1Hooked, there was about two feet of viz. Tight Lines.
Updated December 17th, 2006
By Hellcat, B Dog Lobey, H2O & Sal Monid
Armed with traditional drift gear, good eggs and a couple rods a piece, we rolled into
Tillamook Saturday night and shacked up at the Western Royal. Slid into our normal
slinky stuffing and leader tying routine, topped off by a little Sports Center on ESPN.
Waking up to below freezing temps we quickly discovered that not even a dropping
freezing level would help to clear the Wilson what-so-ever.
After having gobbling on the yummy breakfast sandwiches at the Guide Shop, we
flipped a U and headed back towards town via the Wilson River Loop. Expecting to see
the next river we visited slammed with people, we did, in fact, not.
This downed tree stopped just about everyone from getting down the river
today. We do know of two boats that somehow slid under, or dragged their
boat around, somehow, who both limited their boats, respectively. We did
not tow the new Team Salmon Diamond Back drift boat to the coast, so we
fanned out along the river bank find some soupy water. B Dog Lobes was the
first to find some fish, get bit, find some more, get bit and land HIM.
This fish weighed out close to twelve after being bled. What a dandy! B Dog picked
this chromer up on double pink pearl with a smidge of Silver roe. Just the ticket
for his first Winter Steelhead of the season and Team Salmon's second.
Here is B Dog and H2O in the top of the 'Box'. H2O had success today, three times!
He went one for three today. We all saw his Chinook porpoise and spit. His
next hook up, however, was a bit strange. Well, not the hook up itself, but what
he hooked up WITH. Drifting a pink yarnie with a float and about a 16 bead .270 shot
slinky, H2O got hammered at the end up his drift, which was a graveled, shovel bottom.
There was a twist to this fight as the fish found it's way around B Dog's line on the
retrieve. As he free spooled his line to assist H2O's battle efforts, I slid in with my
8 foot bank net to make the scoop. Imagine my surprise to dip into the drink and pull
up a wild Silver! What a kick.
In the water directly below H2O and to the right, I hooked into one big, bad, chrome
monster that held my battle arm cocked and loaded for close to 15 minutes before
finally spitting my rig as she rolled over in front of us. B Dog was able to capture
the fight on video. I have viewed the video and you can really see my 9' 15-30
Lamiglas loaded to the cork in several different shots.
Sal Monid retrieves a drift rig on one of the most beautiful mornings I have
seen.
Thanks for reading about our day and hopefully we'll have more to share soon!
Updated December 11th, 2006
By Hellcat
Oh behalf of several Team Salmon members, I'm going to give a snap shot of where
and how they have found success lately.
Pigsticker, Ghostface Killah & H2O all had trip worth the gas money they spent this
weekend. Check out some highlights!
H2O with his daughter, Daphne, and some sick Nickel.
Ghostface
1HookedBeak
Pigsticker
Fishing up and down the coast paid off for the team this past week. We were
able to get four guys into fish. Not including my Cutthroat trout from the
Washougal River.
(more pics of Nookslayers' Washouga river front
property below).
Pigsticker's Winter was taken on a dead drift egg pattern! One of the toughest
fights he's had in a while. Which for this wiley veteran, is saying quite a bit!
Ghostface ran back to some water we had fished earlier in the month to find his
Chinook, which he took on traditional drift gear. Murray hit the river fishing four
different roe. This fish came on some Yano, Pautzkie cure.
H2O made the run to a river a little farther south of us. Chartering waters less
fished for our crew, he nailed the beautiful 22.5 lb Chromer you see in the picture
above. H2O is known for having busy legs on the river bank, and lots of tackle on
his back. This fish you see was taken on rocket red cork, some apricot yarn and a
small drift bait of Pro Cure cured roe. Nice job to all!
This past weekend, Team Salmon was blessed to fish Nookslayer's river front
property in Washington, with Landman! Welcome back, Landman!!!!!!!!
Please enjoy this small photo set of pics from our trip.
Landman
.....More Washougal Trips to come!
Updated December 3rd, 2006
By Hellcat
After finally having our prayers answered on the recent word that the Wilson had
nicely 'greened' up, a few of us decided to make the run down to the Western Royal
Inn, in Tillamook, the night before our assault.
Once arrived and settled in, we spread our gear across the end hotel room end table
and located our cardboard box full of slinky-making gear. We proceeded to tie
enough slinks for the next day, and soaked up two or three Tred Barta hunting shows
on VS.
After chatting with some drift boaters who had success the day prior, we warmed up
the rig and came up with a game plan of attacking the middle river with Bobs and
Roe. Armed with four different cures as well as a 'salted only' tray, we set our sites
on river bank less treaded. We were rewarded for our reconnaissance efforts and
stumbled upon a nice, long, diverse run completely devoid of fisherman. Excellent.
Here is Ghostface Killah in the 'lower box' where several fish were hooked.
We threw our whole tackle bag at 'em and managed to hook four fish. Sal Monid
took the cake with a beautifully played, landed and released a very large hen.
The water was big and the fish were fierce. The other three fish earned their rights to
bite another hook, another day.
I recommend varying your bobber stop lengths often, as the high waters
have changed much of the river bottom. You're favority hole might not fish the
same depth now. Keep that in mind when you're making your December Wilson
River Chinook runs. Fish On!
Hellcat
Updated November 27th, 2006
By H2O
Today is the monday after thanksgiving and I was fortunate enough to get the day off.
So I headed to the Lewis River(north fork) the water is still high and murky, but there
are fish in it. I saw but could not catch a few fish near the bank. There are still some
decent Coho in there but the Winters are starting to come in.
I left the Lewis (north fork) around 10:00am and decided to go to the smaller East Fork
of the Lewis, which I had never fished. Wow, what a beautiful river. Definitely in better
shape than anything else I have seen in the last few weeks. It snowed for a bit but
thats part of winter Steelhead fishing that I like. Anyway, I didn't see anything for the
first hour in a half I was there and was about to head to the Kalama when this old guy
I was talking to said if he were me he would stay here because he knew that there were
Winters and Summers in the river. Not ten minutes after he left I hooked a pig winter fish,
nickel. Had a good tug of war match with it and finally dragged it onto the bank and it spit the
hook and swam away.
About five minutes later another guy hooked a nice fish and lost it at the bank. I talked
to a guy who saw 3 landed (one 18 lbs) and he had lost two more as well. Before I left
I saw a few summers that still looked nice. S o If anybody ever wants to check this river
out some time I'm down.
H2O
Updated November 21st, 2006
Team Salmon Rents The Bay House @ Garibaldi........ More on The Bay House at Garibaldi Here
..And Fishes Tillamook Area Rivers.....................
HELLCAT NOOKVIRGIN (You need a new name!!)
Conditions on the Kilches have been perfect for the fishing method of
your choice. We seemed to find any water we needed. Except for one
thing: More Salmon fisherman on one river than I have ever seen. Mills
Bridge, excluded.
Despite the dense gathering, the water has been very sexy. Deep green in
color with just the right flows for bobbers or drift gear.
Kilches River
While floating the river early in the trip, we found best success with eggs, either
under a bobber or back bounced. Only one hook up came from pluggin'. The
drift fished hooks up were typical as well.
Captain Jeff Whalen with Team Salmon
Four out of our six fish came out of the Kilches. The other two fish were dark
and were taken out of a very muddy Wilson River, although the conditions had
improved from Friday through yesterday. I have no 'intell' on the color today.
Wilson River @ Mile Post 14, Sunday, November 19th
Conditions on the Wilson had slowly improved from Friday of last week through
Monday. I do know of at least 6 fish this past weekend taken behind the Guide
Shop that I saw as well. If you bump 'em, they'll bite. Spend your time fishing
close to the banks. Remember, Chinook are lazy. They'll look for the place of
least resistance to hold. If they have the cover of color, they will be very close
to the bank. Usually. Until next time.
Hellcat
Updated November 13th, 2006
Having recently scouted the Tillamook area, I can say, in my modest
fifteen years of fishing those rivers, that I have never seen such
devastation as exists along the Wilson right now. Our hearts go out
to those of you along the rivers or in the flood plains who lost their
homes and property.
H2O, Nookslayer and myself hiked and threw eggs at into a rising
but fishable Kilches River. Along side anyone else who had decided
to make the coastal high water assault. Sunday we great weather for the
better part of the day and fished a lot of new water throughout the
whole river. Tossing four kinds of roe as well as some 'salted only' fresh
Silver eggs from Alaska, where that seems to be their preferred method,
we put in a days work and then some. We saw one limit on the bank
at the Logger's Bridge, but other than that, lot's of dudes, not a lot of fish.
I can't imagine the Wilson will fish this season unless the rains let up
enough for the landslides to receed. Team Salmon will be shacked up
in Garibaldi this weekend, and we'll be crabbing at the very least!
More reports to come soon. Thanks for coming!
Hellcat
Updated November 5th, 2006
As promised, here is a river report for you anxious anglers. Tie more gear. Cure more
eggs. Call your buddies and set up trips for a week from now and make them count. The
bay reports came back Friday and they were grim, my friends. There were sixteen fish
taken for forty boats in the Tourney down in Tillamook and the Ghosthole was running
brown with four foot chop and less than a quarter mile of viz. With a little dip in the levels
today, we prepare for as much as a ten foot increase by Thursday on some rivers.
Our rivers were indeed in need of this and we are poised for one heluva couple weeks
to follow should we get just enough of a break. Please sign up on our forum today to
contribute your own intel to this information collaberation that is..All Around Angler.
Updated October 31st, 2006
By Hellcat
Happy Halloween Everyone! With multiple rain days in our forecast and reports from
Tillamook tidewater coming in strong, it's time to get ready! Please make sure to post
any reports you may have in our Fish Talk forum. Registering is quick and painless!
River reports to come this Sunday.
Updated October 26th, 2006
By Hellcat
After a few more runs up to the "Box" and a couple rainy afternoons, I find myself
with a full freezer of Coho. I'm sitting on both Oregon and Alaska fish, and enough
eggs to fish three King river seasons in a row. The last report from Cedar that
I received from Pablo was that, while quite a few bright, late Summers continue
to be caught on flies and drift gear, most of the bright Silvers have bolted up the
creek or have turned by now. We had optimum conditions there for a week or so.
I had a blast getting in front of so many fish on the move and chasing them
from the lower stretches to the upper reaches has kept me active and alternative
with my methods. Fun stuff. I'll be tying slinks and making Chinook rigs until the
rain Gods bless our Tillamook rivers. Also look for new reports soon from some
solid resources in both the central and southern Oregon coastal rivers.
Thanks!
Oh, by the way, I need to congratulate Meskel for hooking and landing both
his first and second Silvers with me in his presence. Nice Steelhead too,
Meskel. Congrats. You've become one helluva fly angler.
Updated October 24th, 2006
By B Dog Lobes
Sunny day and discolored water due to glacial runoff made for a great day of Silver fishing! Hellcat, B Dog Lobes, Pops aka Sal Monid, Meskel and Ghostface Killah made the run around 3:30 in the afternoon. Within the first 35 minutes, before anyone else had hooked a fish, Hellcat proceeded to go three for three with his choice of a limit. He ended up in with a chrome bright late Summer stuffed full of roe as well as a 9lb. nickel Coho female. Once Hellcat had limited I proceeded to slide into his slot. From here, quite simply, I just put on a clinic, Fella. Enjoy some pics from my 20 fish day!
Cheers!
B Dog Lobes
Updated October 23rd, 2006
By Hellcat
Team Salmon continued their assault on the upper Sandy (in between rain dances we fish the Sandy....) and brought home more skeins than a guy knows what to do with right now. Sitting nicely as we wait for our river season at the coast, I leave you with a couple tips for fishing Cedar Creek. The Sivers bite on traditional drift gear if the water is murky from runoff and there's fish on the move. Otherwise, same regular fresh water Coho report you could ever expect. Good times though, lots of fish hooked and landed, most of which have been chrome bright. We've had some fifty fish days for the crew and it's always nice to mix some trips like this in, ya know, for practice. Come on rain!
H2O with a nickel limit! 11 a piece, way to go!
H2O modifies his carrying method
Tight Lines,
Hellcat
Updated October 20th, 2006
By Hellcat
A little shot of rain was all it took for the foothills rivers to come up enough to entice the passage of many Silver Salmon in recent days. After weeks of chasing fish in the lower stretches of our local rivers we've finally found succeses higher up.
Cloudy waters have produced the best bits. Short leaders will help you stay in the strike zone and the fishes line of sight as they are hugging shallow and close in many runs, riffles and tailouts. I have also personally seen hardware outproduce eggs or traditional drift gear once or twice, but I've been averaging 7 fish a trip.
The Cowlitz River regulations have just changed and you can now harvest four Coho (Oregonian 10.19.06). We love a report from anyone who's ventured our SW Washington Rivers lately as we've been running around mostly in Oregon.
See you on the river!
Team Salmon