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Also be sure to check out the forums pages, where you can run a search and find old reports for lots of NW fisheries! Thanks to: John Water: Dungeness Date: December 28, 2007 Report: fished the hatchery hole saw and caught six coho all not table fare. Saw two steelies wouldn't bite. Thanks to: Joe B. Water: Bogey Date: December 25, 2007 Report: 7:20AM Chocolate milk anyone? The Bogy is still high and ugly! There are some fish lingering but not in any great number or size. Good luck in the merk! PS Merry Christmas! Thanks to: Tommy G Water: Queets Date: November 8, 2007 Report: Killed em. There are loads of fish in the river. We limited out both days we fished. Back at the lodge at 11 AM! Thanks to: Travis Milward Water: Snohomish Date: November 3-8, 2007 Report:
Cha cha cha cha CHUM...Fishing has definitely been good
on the North Puget Sound Rivers including the Snohomish, Skykomish and
Skagit Rivers. Fishing for Silvers (coho) and Chums we have made short
work of our limits, getting into them thick before early afternoon.
Mainly twitching jigs, casting dick nites and pulling plugs like Kwik
Fish K13 and K15 have been the winning ticket! Thanks to: Pat Water: Humptulips Date: October 10-25, 2007 Report: The Humptulips is so slow! Yeah, it's open for kings, but they are very far and few between, not mention that there are only a handful of silvers. I recommend that you stay home. Thanks to: Stilly the Kid Water: Skykomish Date: October 9, 2007 Report: rippin lips on the Sky. Dollar Hole, silvers 8 thru 12 lbs. Thanks to: Shawn T Water: Humptulips Date: October 7, 2007 Report: Fished the Hump on Sunday. Caught a couple kings one was 22lbs. Can't keep them till the 16th I believe, but we did get one 8lb silver. Thanks to: Micky Faulk Water: Nootka Sound Date: July 30 - Aug. 4, 2007 Report: Landed 16 kings out of Critter Cove: 35,32,30,30,26,25,24,24,24,23,23,22,22,21,21,19. Been going there for 9 years. Was an average year for us. Very good some days, had to work for them the others. Went outside and got easy limits of Lings and Snapper. The fish have been on the inside for 2 weeks and more coming every day. Heard it slowed a bit this due to the weather change. Thanks to: Pedro Tena Water: Cowlitz Date: 05/06/07 Report: I just fished the Cowlitz last week and caught two steelhead with in the hour on a pink and yellow blue fox spinner. Thanks to: Master Angler Water: Green River Date: 2/23/07 Report: fished the green nothing didn't see anything just a lousy day on the green a couple of other guys there casting bait they say they didn't see anybody catch anything all day. Thanks to: Scott Jenson Water: Green River Date: 1/30/07 Report: I have been fishing the Green River for the last several days. I knew from local chatter that it was going to be a hunt. I fished the lower Green (golf course, Soos Creek, etc.) as well as higher in the Metzler, Flaming Geyser area. I encountered roughly 30 other anglers and not one person hooked in to anything. I am convinced there are no fish in the Green River. Trust me......you are wasting your time. Thanks to: Jarred Draper Water: Salmon River Date: 1/13/07 Report: got 2 steelies one hatchery 10lbs and released 18lb native. both caught on shrimp tails. saw quite a few fish caught. Also went upriver into Indian territory and came across 150 or so dead native steelhead. nothing done to any of them. chrome wild wasted steelhead. what a shame, this person should be shot. Thanks to: Jeff Hampton Water: Lyre Date: 12/31/06 Report:
fished from daybreak 'til dark and LOST two! Saw one
other caught and heard of another caught and released (not just lost,
released). Anyone ever fish the Dickey? Thanks to: Spencer Water: Dungeness Date: 12/19/06 Report: This morning at about 10 I had some eggs below a float at went over a boulder a hit a 9 pound steelhead but i had to get it around a branch and lost it. There are some fish in in the river but you have to be Adventurous to find the fish. Good Luck Thanks to: Dale Russell Water: Stillaguamish Date: 12/17/06 Report: Water was moderately high. The water visibility two to two and half feet. It was almost perfect. The meat hole was not as crowded as I thought it be. Fishing was slow of the approximately forty fishers only about a dozen fish were hooked and four caught before I left at 11;00 AM. I hooked only three fish and lost them all. Slow day. Talked to Bill today (12/26/06), he said only five fish for thirty-five fisher. Where's the steelhead. Its shaping up to be a slow year on the Stilly. Thanks to: The other Jeff H. Water: Sol Duc Date: 12/15/06 Report: My name is been confused with another fellow fisherman with the same name who feels that my fishing reports are fictitious & about him. Sorry to the other Jeff. H for any confusion on this mistaken identity issue for fishing reports I've submitted. I will not be submitting any more reports after this one because of this matter. I headed to the Solduc after heavy rains & winds pounded the Forks area. I was accompanied by my brother Leroy & best friend Philippi for a muddy day of fishing. We fished the Nestle Quick like waters all day with possibly one bite. "not sure" We met a pair of fishermen who showed us some great places to fish for when the waters finally recede. Thanks to those two fishermen. I won't be submitting anymore fishing reports, but i will be reading others & viewing valuable information from this wonderful website. I have done countless hours of researching fishing websites & have found this one to surpass them all. Keep up the great work Bob! Good fishing to ya all! Thanks to: Robert Water: Bogachiel Date: 12/8/06 Report:
My partner and I had a great day on the Bogie. We got our
limit of 6 steelhead, 2 biggest fish weigh over 12 lbs. We found them in
the fast water using orange/red corkies on a 2-3 foot leader. We lost a
lot of tackle so watch for the snags. Note from Bob: That's why many people call it the "Snag Hole" :) Thanks to: Philippi Pennington Water: Satsop Date: 12/1/06 Report: had one bite. no fish. fish by myself. friend could not come cause he broken leg. you rest the leg Jim. other friend work all time i go at Satsop river back tomorrow to get big steelhead. i check on web and this is #1 fishing site. Thanks to: The Real Jeff Hampton Water: All Date: 12/1/06 Report: enjoyed the fishing stories that i have supposedly been submitting but it appears that there is a prankster among us. whoever is turning in these reports has a wonderful imagination but i assure that these reports in my name are fictitious but wonderful to read. thanx again Brian. should i tell them bout your grape juice experience? Editor's Note: We figured as such, but with recent flooding and storytelling galore, we couldn't help ourselves putting them up :) Thanks to: Jeff Hampton Water: Bogachiel Date: 11/28/06 Report: One of the prettiest sites ever is a river with snow blanketed shorelines flowing next to immense snow flocked trees. The site of this very therapeutic. When i see snow I go steelheading! I usually fish the Bogie when it snows. This river has limited beach access but offers fish to shore anglers. I do very well on this river on average probably because i carry a very large machete. I've always been a brush buster & I cover a lot of river on most of my outings. I use a variety of gear to catch winter steelhead. Pink worms, plugs, spinners, spoons, sand shrimp,& eggs are what i use primarily, but i have found that there are a couple other things that work very well also. Believe it or not small mice cured in shrimp oil & native western red legged frogs are some of my favorite things to use for catching winter steelhead. Small mice are getting more common to use because of their popularity among several Alaskan fishing guides. That's where I learned of this. I then decided to try mice on Olympic Peninsula rivers. Shrews are my favorite because of their small size. I raise mice & shrews in my garage because of all the steelheading I do. Mice work great for winter & summer steelhead. Your local pet store will do the trick if you don't want to raise them. Buy the small ones. I run a hook through the top of the skull & let the other hang freely near the base of the tail. if hooked correctly one mouse will should stay your hook for about 45 minutes to an hour. When fishing your mouse reel extra fast for two to four feet & then let it drift for 5 to 10 seconds & repeat. You may free float it or use weight depending on current & depth. After a late November snow I invited my two best friends to go fishing at the Bogachiel river. I put the chains on my Ford Pinto & picked up my friends Jim Thompson & Philippi Pennington for some mousing on the Bogie. I always carry first aid, food, rope & emergency blankets when doing this type of fishing in the snow & invite at least two friends for safety. After arriving to a perfect fishable Bogie we all hiked up river. This is my favorite way to fish because steelhead face upstream. This eliminates the chances of spooking fish. Jim was the first to get his mouse into the river & I quickly followed. Philippi proceeded to hike up river to the next hole. Soon Philippi yelled fish on & Jim & I ran up river to view his fish. He landed a 6 pound hatchery brat on a small shrew cured in shrimp oil. I fished this same hole & caught a 6 pound hatchery brat myself. We then hiked to my favorite hole. I hooked on a fresh mouse & caught a 9 pound hatchery hen. What a pretty fish. Later that day Jim lost two fish & I caught one more which was a 8 pound buck. All of our fish were caught on mice. We then hiked downstream towards the Pinto. Suddenly I heard a scream behind me. Jim had fallen through the snow between two logs. Tears ran down his face as I tried to pull him out from the hole through the logs. He cussed & told me to let go of his hand. I knew this was very serious. I gave him some water & a aspirin from my first aid kit. After several minutes Philippi & I got Jim out from the logs. Philippi took his knife & delicately cut Jim's pant leg from the bottom to the top. As Jim grimaced we noticed his leg was blueish purple around the knee & calve area. I then elevated Jim's leg & laid a safety blanket under him & on top of him. He could not walk & I knew damn well he severely broke his leg. Philippi already cut several alder pecker poles to make a gurney. I used my rope to tie the poles together & we now had a gurney that would make any paramedic proud. Jim cussed us out as we put him on our home made stretcher. I tied all of our fishing rods to the side of the gurney along with several steelhead. Adrenaline helped us make our two mile journey back to the Pinto. I untied our fish & fishing rods from the gurney & then put the fish on the car floor with snow placed on top of them for added freshness. I put the back seat down & we carefully lifted Jim into the car which was now headed to Forks General Hospital. On the way to the hospital Philippi made ice a pack from snow for Jim's leg. I called 911 to let the hospital know we were coming very soon. When we arrived we were greeted by medics at the front door. They did a great job & were very friendly. We soon found out Jim's leg was broken in two places. He spent the two days in the hospital. The poor guy! Lessons to be learned here are that you should never fish a snowy river by yourself, always carry first aid, rope & mice! Thanks to: Stan Schroeder Water: Michigan / Manistee R. Date: 11/08/06 Report: I miss fishing the Olympic pen rivers, but I'm making do with Mich steelies. Boated 5 for 7 pulling plugs under perfect conditions in the lower Manistee on the 8th, Fish were chrome running 7 to 12 pounds. Hit the surf on lake Mich at Ludington the next day and landed a 6 and 10 pounder on spawn. Also bright with no fin clips - typical natural reproduced wild fish from the PM river. Thanks to: Jeff Hampton Water: Hoh Date: 10/31/06 Report: It was Halloween morning & my Ford Pinto was warmed & on the road by 3:30 am. My best friend Philippi Pennington was sitting upright in my backseat of my packed car boasting about his most recent trip to the Hoh River. He told me of a king salmon that may of been close to a Hoh river king salmon record that he had lost two weeks before because of a impatient fishing guide. This guide & his clients seemed to intentionally drift over Philippi's line & cost my friend to lose this 55 lb. plus king salmon which may have been a record for the Hoh river. I now know who this guide is & I am waiting to ram his boat when i see him floating the Hoh. I'm just kidding I would really never do that but the thought is somewhat soothing. A 55 LB. king is a huge fish for the Hoh. Anywhere for that matter. I also fished with Philippi long enough to know that he's very conservative when it comes to guessing a fishes weight. I bet that king was closer to sixty lbs. After this story & many more we finally made it to Oxbow campground where we launched Philippi's drift boat. I just about got the Pinto stuck in the mud during the launching process. Our good long time friend Jim Thompson was going to pick us up on the lower river at the end of the day. The river looked really low & clear. I started to fish with a F-7 flat fish & Philippi was using a blue & chrome hot shot. After twenty minutes or so i caught a 5 lb. silver which was a hen full of eggs. She was dark in color. As we floated further down river we saw a small heard of elk crossing the river in a line formation. We drifted further until Bam! Bam! Bam! & Ziiiiiieeeeeeng! A fish was on. Philippi had his rod grasped firmly & his ball cap tilted sideways when jumped to his feet. His game face was on & he looked so happy until suddenly his line & pole went limp. I cussed first & put my lure back into the water. It's so painful to lose fish. I felt that it was now my turn to catch one. Then Philippi yelled "I got'em"! I frantically reeled my line out of the water. This fish was now up river about 100 yards from where we first hooked it. "This must be a king" I exclaimed. After about 30 minutes we saw a huge flash before this mammoth king briefly surfaced. This sucker was every bit of 50 lbs! Twenty minutes later i proudly netted this 51 lb.& 7 ounce chromed king salmon. I hugged Philippi we shouted in joy the rest of the day. We finally made it to very popular gravel bar where our friend Jim Thompson was waiting to pick us up. Suddenly our joy vanished when Philipi pointed at a truck parked near ours. It was the unpopular fishing guide who had caused Philippi's missed 55 lb. plus king two weeks before. As Philippi struggled to grab today's mammoth king from our boat, he told me to grab my camera & follow him. He then walked over to the unpopular guides truck & leaned on the bumper holding his huge king as high as he could. As the guide sat in his truck Philippi grinned to the moon. I took the best picture ever. I will never post this picture because i always give people second chances. Even unpopular fishing guides. Most are great. Thanks to Jim for picking us up on time this time.. LOL... Thanks to: Tom Water: Quillayute Date: 10/19-22/06 Report:
Fished the almost non existing Quillayute river from
Leyendecker to Dicky caught a total of 3 silvers. Thanks to: Jeff Hampton Water: Dungeness Date: 10/14/06 Report: This silty small stream can be hit or miss. Weather, timing, color, stealthfulness & perseverance are key to fishing this river. I had none of these while fishing this river today & I got skunked. In utter disgust I drove my Ford Pinto to the Elwa river & caught several salmon on my very first homemade fishing rod. I made this fishing rod from bamboo that came from Morse Creek Valley near Port Angles. It's so gratifying to catch fish on your own craftsmanship in the form of a rod or lure. Today I was blessed with several salmon which were all caught on spoons. Kings & silvers were on the bamboo many times throughout the day. I fished by myself today because it's the cold & flu season already. I hope my good friend & fishing partner Phillipi can shake this horrible bug he caught. I caught a much more powerful bug than Phillipi. It's called the fishing bug. There's no excuses when it comes to fishing. I would like to thank God & myself for tis gratifying day of fishing. Thanks to: Tanner Morton Water: Little Nestucca Date: 9/30/06 Report: I was using a spinner and i was bank fishing . One time when i was reeling it in my spinner and gear just stopped so i thought i had a snag so i started to pull back on it and then a chinook salmon jumps out of the water with my spinner on its side, so i had its snagged dangit but i thought it was pretty funny that i thought i had a snag and then i had a fish .
Thanks to: Jeff Hampton Water: Hoh Date: 9/17/06 Report: A little bit of rain made for a slick ride from Port Angles to Forks. But my Ford Pinto prevailed like always. When I arrived at my favorite spot to fish I saw my friend Philippi resting on a log waiting to teach me a few tricks on how to catch summer run steelhead. My goal is to someday catch one of these amazing creatures. Philippi has a sick sense about where to catch summer run steelhead. He grabbed my keys & told me to hop into the pinto. I swear he thought my car was four wheel drive because he drove us for miles through muddy skid roads that were encased by thick trees & brush. After giving me a mild case of whiplash he grinned & told me to get his rope out of his backpack. Without another word he started to walk away leaving me to pack our fishing gear towards the river. I was upset by this & vented my frustrations by threatening that there would be no Pinto rides back to town at the end of the day. Even though I didn't have a clue how to drive back through the maze of skid roads. We finally made it to the river. Philippi tied his rope around my waist & pointed his finger to the other side of the river. I pointed my finger at him vertically & waded across. He grabbed the other end of the rope & made it to my side with ease. We hiked a mile upstream to a log jam with a set of waterfalls. Philippi told me to talk quietly & to walk softly. He made me get on my knees so I wouldn't spook fish. He hooked on a sand shrimp with no weight & launched it into a eddy at the base of the log jam. Suddenly he raised his rod & hooked a steelhead that fought for several minutes giving us many aerial stunts to watch. After a lot of flips & flops he released this six or seven pound fish. We fished this hole a little bit longer & Philippi caught one more fish which was a huge bull trout. We then hiked upstream until we came to what Philippi calls the rock garden. Huge boulders covered this three hundred foot stretch of river. I caught my first summer run steelhead out of this magnificent garden. Philippi caught two more fish here & one of them probably weighed close to twelve pounds. We raced the daylight back towards the Pinto. Wet & hungry we headed to Philippi's truck where we had a snack before heading back to Port Angeles. Thanks to Philippi I can now brag to the boys at Swain's about my first summerun steelhead experience. THANKS PHILIPPI! Thanks to: Jeff Hampton Water: Morse Creek Date: 9/08/06 Report: Very early in the morning, I drove to the Thompson farm which is located on lower Morse creek. I had finally arrived after a sleepy trip with no coffee. There in my headlights stood Jim Thompson. He was pointing at his compost pile which contained two salmon heads from fish which he caught the day before. He loudly announced "the silvers are back!" I quickly grabbed my fishing rod & we took a short walk through his farm until we came to a nearly stagnant slow moving hole. This hole was very large in comparison to the rest of this small creek. Jim hooked a silver on his third cast. He pulled one nice fish out of that hole. He hooked & released several more fish through out the day. For years i have nicknamed him the magician because he catches fish like this every time we go fishing. I hooked nothing like usual until Jim yelled "get'em set the hook jeffry" I jerked my rod like i do at home & watched my fishing line zigzag back & forth in this hole for several minutes. This fish was finally landed after a lot of obscenities & close calls. It was a 12 pound silver. A huge dark buck. What a pretty fish. I haven't had this much fun in years. I owe most of this treasured memory to the magician & man who knew me since i was in diapers. His name is Jim Thompson. Thanks Jim. Thanks to: Ray Water: Nisqually Date: 9/02/06 Report: Caught a 33lb King on Yarn and Corky. Plus a couple of Silvers using the same. There's a lot of fish to be caught. I have my best success in the early morning usually when the natives pick up their nets. Thanks to: Russell Thorne Water: Calawah Date: 8/10/06 Report: Story goes 5 people come out with 10 fish. Lose about 5 to 7 others. Just another good day of fishing at the Calawah River. There is a lot of good sized fish in this river and there is a lot. I would suggest going there if you have a chance. Thanks to: Layne Behrmann, Texas Fly Fisherman Water: Forks Area Date: 8/1/06 Report: Fished outside the city center of Forks. Intended on staying 2 nights but nailed 2 steelies on a black egg sucking leach the first evening followed by a 10lb steelie the next morning at 9am followed by a 37 inch 18-20 lb King at 10 am in the same hole on a practitioner. Went home to cool the hole for a good friend the next weekend. All fish caught on a 5wt Orvis Clearwater pole 6 wt clear int sink line with 6 lb test. Water was very clear and low. Spooooooky fish to say the least. Had to hide behind weeds and cast 40 ft under trees to get em. Lots of fun, lots of fish left. One out of a hundred will look at the fly. Just fishing for the one anyway. Best fish was lost doing cartwheels up and down the river. To fish where I was takes some work and research and physical stamina to say the least. No I wasn't at the rearing ponds with 50 of my combat friends. A fly fisherman can not compete there. Not sure how to send photos on this site. Will be happy to send when I find out how. Thanks to: Mikey1 Water: Skok River Date: 8/1-8/3 Report: The big piggy's are back and eating eggs and corkies &yarn at the bee hives (hunter farms) the trick is parking! beware the state patrol will give tickets for parking on the fog line!!!!so be careful on where you park! there have been a couple people towed away up above at purdy creek!!! for parking past the signs Thanks to: Thomas Octuck Water: Green River Date: 7/22/2006 Report: fished my favorite hole for summerruns, did not catch any, but I did catch one those lost sockeyes about 4 or 5 pounds. Thanks to: Mark Reynolds Water: Columbia River Date: 6/19/2006 Report: Summer Chinook and Steelhead are being taken in shallow water along the banks of the Columbia, Plunkers are doing very well down river from Kalama to the Megler-Astoria bridge, sturgeon are on the bite in Astoria on the sand flats by the bridge on anchovies. Fin clipped and wild summer salmon can be kept now (June 16) Except for steelhead, only fin clipped. Talked to a lot of people catching steelhead, their always giving me a hunk of fresh bright fish! Bonneville is releasing a lot of water right now which I think which it attributes to the fish traveling in shallow water. Going out Monday by Cathlamet for sturgeon then to the steelhead, salmon grounds. Thanks to: Fishing Magician Water: Green Date: 6/1-6/3, 2006 Report: river high. One small steelhead released a lot of trout. Thanks to: Russell Thorne Water: Sol Duc Date: 4/30/06 Report: Fished one of the best springer hole on the Sol Duc and hooked into a 20 pound hen around 9 in the morning then hooked into one more at noon. Mainly used kwikfish from k13 to k14. Thanks to: Dznuts Water: Olympic Peninsula Date: 4/2/06 Report: fished the duc early, no success. saw some nice springers. headed for a secret hole on the bogi, third cast 18 lb. buck. continued to land three more. (all mid teens) Thanks to: Steve Zimmer Water: Coastal Washington Date: 3-24-06 - 3-28-06 Report:
Fished the Upper Quinalt on 3-24 due to the Hoh and
Queets being out. 1 fish on a float/jig and 2 on plugs...rowing across
Lake Quinalt to the take-out with wind is tough but was worth it! Thanks to: Chris Water: Hoh Date: 2/21-22, 2005 Report: did fairly well, got my wall mount 20 pound buck. between two people and two days of fishing close to 15 fish total. Thanks to: mikey1 Water: Skok Date: 2/11-12, 2006 Report: Fished the skok and "caught two" hatchery steelhead . 4lbs and one 5.7lbs. Yes the skok! I had sand shrimp and pink yarn and 5ft 12lb leader and drifted along downed trees and a couple stumps no weight just a swivel and casted way above the hole and let it drift down into it and POW! Someone (the Indian guy i talked to) said "they don't show up until march but there are fish in here now" you just have to look. Thanks to: SilverSlayer Water: Bogie, Sol Duc Date: 2/8/2006 Report: Any one catchin' any??? I'm going this weekend to Bogie and Sol Duc ill hit you up with a report this up coming Monday. Thanks to: MilkBottleMikey Water: Lyre Date: 1/22 & 23/2006 Report:
Decided quite readily to watch the 'hawks down on the bay
with friends and get in some fishing before the game. Thanks to: SilverSlayer Water: Lyre Date: 1/22/2006 Report: the Lyre is a silky green nice water but the water level is still high its hard to fish lots of fast water. fished from up above the bridge down not one hook up. i talked to all the fishermen that day and no one was catching anything. Thanks to: SilverSlayer Water: Bogey Date: 1/15/2006 Report: fished the hatchery on the bogie landed one only a brat tho. Fish are kinda late but I'm going to try this up coming weekend. Note from Bob: this run is usually on it's last legs in this timeframe, so I'm not sure where "Fish are kinda late" comes from ;) Thanks to: James Water: Bogey Date: 1/1/2006 Report: FISHED THE BOGEY OVER THE NEW YEAR'S WEEKEND. HAD A GREAT TIME. 5 PEOPLE IN OUR PARTY WENT HOME WITH 8 FISH. WATER WAS HIGH BUT STILL MANAGED TO FIND SOME FISH. ALL FISH EXCEPT 1 15# WERE HATCHERY.
Thanks to: BearHunter Water: Sol Duc, Bogey, Hoh Date: 12/30-1/1 Report: Plunking on the Sol Duc all day Friday resulted in one fish for 7 rods. River was high and muddy, so didn't expect much. Saturday, we tried a few different holes on both the Bogey and Sol Duc and got nothing between the three of us. Sunday morning I had a nice one till he ran me into the limbs underwater and wrapped me around and broke me off. Left there and tried plunking on the Hoh for about 5 minutes, till the rain and wind literally blew us off the river. All in all a pretty crummy fishing trip, but again, we figured with the weather being what it was, that the fishing wasn't going to be too good. And of course the weather is predicted to me nice for the next few days, now that I have to be here at work.....WHAAAAAA!!!! FISH-ON!!!
Thanks to: WaRiverFisher Water: Skykomish Date: 2nd week of December, 2005 Report: Brats beginning to show in Sky. Hope it continues. Thanks to: Karl Water: Lower Satsop Date: December 9, 2005 Report: Bank fished the lower Satsop today. Low water made it easy to wade around. Hit 5 fish using eggs. Landed 4, 3 coho and 1 chrome steely. The coho were nice 10-12# hens. Kept the one biggest and brightest coho and the hatch. steely around 8#. I love low water. Thanks to: Mikey 1 Water: Skokomish Date: November 20, 2005 Report: A friend and I fished the Skok Saturday early morning for Coho and hooked 4 landed 3 and more than our share of chums. eggs and a 2/0 owner and size5# split shot 12lb test seemed to work best in tailouts and log jams. a bobber&eggs worked for one fish. a small wisp of green yarn on a size1#hook and drift gear was all we needed for chums it worked killer for the snaggle-tooth rod breakers! use a long leader it helps and doesn't spook fish that easy. Thanks to: Stilly the Kid Water: Skykomish Date: November 13, 2005 Report: WET AND COLD TODAY 2 FISH CAUGHT BUT THAT WAS ALL FOR THE DAY STAYED AT REITER POND ALL DAY GOING TO GO BACK FOR MORE SOON Thanks to: Randy G Water: Sol Duc River Date: November 1, 2005 Report:
We sure got up early for the best fishing I have ever
had. Praise the Lord that my alarm clock got us up & to the river.
Fished the Hampton hole & my son Eric caught two chromed silvers about
10 & 16 lbs. I landed a 14 lb. king. We then headed to the Bark hole to
meet our friend Brian who was talking to the game warden when we showed
up. Brian limited on silvers & watched my son & I catch several fish
between 8 & 15 lbs. We released all of them so we could keep fishing.
After the Bark hole we fished the Eagle Thanks to: Alexander Water: Cascade River Date: October 29, 2005 Report: Still some run down silvers, but 4 early winter run steelies caught on eggs was a very nice thing to see. Thanks to: Lucky Louie Water: Hoh River Date: October 24, 2005 Report: We fished the Hoh Monday the 24th with K14 Sardine Wrapped Kwick Fish. We started at the upper put in and fished all the way to Allan's take out. We were 2 for seven with a 21lb. king and a 10lb silver hen. The next day we dropped down to K13s due to clearer water and boated a 26lb. King, a 20 pounder and a 16 pounder with a nice 8 pound chromer buck. We also caught two large dollies which were of course released. The day started out clear but threatening rain. At 2 pm it drizzled and then blew like crazy before rain drove us out. One guide almost got hit by a falling tree. So it pays to keep your eyes on those trees. The silvers were chrome bright and the kings dark silver to dark. I thought the meat might be a bit pale but it was a nice red orange and quite firm. By the way, the drop into Oxbow is in my opinion very hazardous unless you really know your stuff. The upper water is much safer and there were plenty of fish up high. Thanks to: Hammer7 Water: Queets River Date: October 4, 2005 Report:
We ventured back up to the Salmon & Queets Rivers, the
Salmon River was quiet, the Queets however had plenty of fish N it Kings
and mostly silvers we took our limits of silvers out of the Queets. The
fish started slow, the bite picked up around 11am. Smaller rigs worked
the best with green corkie and white tail, and a red orange combo with
yellow corkie. The water level was perfect around 1500. Noted several
elk N the area as we left out all N all just a fantastic day. Thanks to: itchinforfishin Water: Elwah River Date: October 1, 2005 Report: Spent the whole morning opening day on the Elwha river and had no luck. Unless you count the flounder I caught with a spinner. Second time that has happened believe it or not. Didn't see a single fish hooked or landed all day. Sunrise until three o'clock. Even after the rain. Nothin'. River is still extremely clear and low. I have seen a lot people fishing in front of the creek at the reservation though. Just you guys know fifty yards up and down from that creek is CLOSED waters. Thanks to: Hammer7 Water: Salmon River Date: September 30, 2005 Report:
Well the rain finally came, and we waited for this river
to show for a while, we've heard good things about this river, the rain
came and with it so did the silvers, not sure how long this run will
last but the day we fished it, to which we call it the day of 1000
silvers on the Salmon river pod after went thru all day. So if ur N that
area u may wanna give this river a look, we only took a few an theRs
plenty more, what a sight to behold, that day will long B remembered.
Thanks to: Chuck Water: Mouth of Toutle River Date: August 24, 2005 Report:
Hit the mouth of Toutle on Wednesday morning with my dad.
Just a handful of fishermen with no fish on the bank for early part of
morning. My dad crossed over onto the island that has formed at the
mouth and hooked a nice steelie on top portion. Five minutes later I
hooked a nice buck myself. Couple hours later I landed two smaller
typical summer run, so limits for both. Started to fish for early Kings
and hooked into what I thought was another steelie...handed the rod to a
guy that never caught one before and when he landed it finally,
discovered it was a silver....small four pounder at best, but awesome
sight to see already...Two days earlier I was fishing same spot and
landed my largest steelie ever...34 inches and probably around 12
pounds. Nicest one for me....Did not see any other fish landed that day,
Wednesday or Monday....Hit and miss...just a lucky rock I found on
Wednesday I guess...also, heads up guys, my car got broken into two
Mondays ago...smashed drivers window, all identification taken,
everything ... come to find out I was the second one in two days in same
spot ... lookin at the glass on the road Wednesday it looks like total
of five cars hit now...all in broad daylight by freeway...amazing...take
your possessions with you... Thanks to: Mikey Water: Area 10/11 Date: August 23, 2005 Report: I fished the coho today and their are a lot showing from Manchester to Dolphin Point. Whole herring or cut plug alone seem to be the ticket, but the flasher and hoochies work too. 20ft to 40 ft is where we were hitting them. Troll your herring slow and 25 to 30 ft and at least 20 feet back of the ball and when you hook a fish mark where you are and circle till you hook up again. You can do this for hours catching and releasing till you get some nice fish. ours were 6 to 10lbs. Morning seems to be best but the evening bite can be killer. Go get'em they're there. Thanks to: Eric Ashford Water:
Marine areas 8-2, and 9 also Snohomish river Report: Fished off Possession bar between Possession point, and Scachet. Got one pink on a green hoochie in 60ft. of water off downrigger around 45ft. might have been better had I not needed to get home before dark. Thanks to: Thomas Octuck Water: Pullayup Date: August 14, 2005 Report: Fished down below Anton's late morning seen 4 kings on the bank and seen about a dozen humpies caught. will be back down there on Wednesday eeearly. Thanks to: Jay Water: Sol Duc Date: August 5, 2005 Report: Fished several different holes. About 2 dozen in each hole, but could not get any to bite. Tried many different baits and lures. Water was clear and low. Good fishing trip - just no fish. Thanks to: Concerned Fisherman Water: Lake Washington Locks Date: Never Apparently Report: If anyone was wondering about the dwindling possibility of a sockeye season on LW, this hope is lost, their are nets across 3/4 of the locks fish ladder area. whatever happened to the 350000 minimum for an opening for nets and recreational? if we want strong runs in the future we need to allow this seemingly small run go and no one should be allowed to fish, especially considering that this is an introduced species to LW, native fish are one thing but planted fish are a whole 'nother story. this just sucks... Thanks to: Mikey Water: Dolphin Point Date: July 2 Report: A friend and I fished Dolphin Point (Vashon Island) and were hooking kings at the point. Troll from 250ft head towards the beach to 85 ft and back out. Go fast 3 to 5 knots fish deep downriggers at 85 to 120 ft don't worry about the bottom because your downrigger should be at a 45 degree angle and singing .use green spatter back flasher (get this) watermelon apex with the black spots on it and use the factory leader or change it to heavier lb test I use 40lb leader about 4ft should be fine .use some sent if you want. I don't think it matters because it's a reaction strike because your going so fast. Well it worked killer for us, maybe it will for you. Thanks to: James Hajek Water: Snohomish Date: May 11 Report: Today we went out on my neighbors jet sled and fished the Snoqualmie River confluence but nothin'. Then we went down a ways below 522 and hooked up with an 18 pounder pullin' plugs by a rock cliff. Then we got back into the same hole and pulled another one about 15 pounds. It turned out to be a good day except for the rain but that's a part of fishin', you got to learn to deal with it. Thanks to: RBF Water: Snoqualmie Date: March 26 Report: OK ... didn't fish. Not sure even when this water opens ... but took my drift boat out for the first time. Really enjoyed this short drift that's close to home. Saw 2 eagles and a bunch of ducks. A few more trial runs and I'll be ready for some bigger water... Thanks to: Skagit River Boy Water: Sol Duc, Hoh, & Queets Date: March 3 - 6 Report:
Fished the Hoh 3/4/05 and the river had nice color but
really low. Some being caught I heard but none for yours truly. Thanks to: John Abramczyk Water: Aruba Date: Jan 19, 2005 Report: Congratulations Bob and Corey! Thanks to: Canuck Steely'er Water: Elwah Date: Jan 15, 2005 Report:
Hit the bar at the hatch about 3. Thanks to: Mike Sheldon Water: Lyre Date: Jan 5, '05 Report: Went down below the highway bridge after work hook one hen. The water was low and clear. Not much goin' on. Click here to send us your fishing report!! Thanks to: Johnny Jenkins Water: Notellem Hole / Lyre Date: December 12 Report: Love the weather. Keeps the city sissys away. Great fishing. above the bridge. Got limit within a hour, 1 12lb. and 1 16 lbs. Thanks to: Big Will Madison Water: Low Claw and Upper Bogy Date: December 1 Report: we went Sunday seen 6-7 caught, went Monday seen 1 caught, might be a little early yet, need a good rain again. No luck for us. As they say the first steelie of the year is the hardest. Thanks to: Nitro Melon Water: Forks Hole Date: November 31 Report: Brats are moving in ... saw 12-15 pulled during a good bite mid morning .. water was perfect .... pressure was medium ..... Thanks to: Jon Keithly Water: Lyre River Date: November 28 Report: Fished above the highway bridge quite a ways up there. Hooked and landed a winter run about 8 lbs. Only fished for 3 hours. Released two ugly chums. Hope the next rain brings some fish up. River was in excellent shape. Thanks to: Sol_on_the_Duc Water: Bogachiel Date: November 26, 2004 Report: NOFISH & I fished bottom end of bar at Tall Timbers for six hours. River was at 30 feet on the gauge and dropping. Clarity was 1-foot. Did not touch a single brat. Saw one fish landed for the day---very slow. Not sure why as high water should have had fish on the move in big numbers. No fresh winter fish at the hatchery weir as of this day. Thanks to: Lovetofish Water: Sol Duc Date: November 13, 2004 Report: Went down to the Sol Duc on Saturday and got on the river by 8:30. We fished the first hole by the hatchery. There were lots of fish here. On my friends second cast he hooks a 5lb jack king on a #3 blue vibrax spinner. It was released and we kept fishing. After a while, we headed to another hole by the hatchery. This hole had many fish over 20lbs. And on my friends 3rd or 4th cast he hooks a monster. He fought this fish for over an hour, and then finally it was netted. This was about a 20lb silver. A beast!! We kept this one, and it had a little color but not much. Then a little bit later my friend s dad hooks a 15lb coho and we released it because it was pretty dark. Both of those fish were caught on a #4 and #5 chartreuse vibrax. The fish in the hole were going ballistic, jumping, splashing, and getting some air. Then my friend hooks up with an even bigger fish than before, and it runs for about 50 yards then snaps his line. Probably because the line was weekend from his last fish. I then finally get a fish but it was snagged and was released. The cool thing was that all the fish except for mine were hooked in the mouth. We fished for the rest of the day till dark and had a few hit but no more fish. All in all it was awesome!!! Thanks to: Sol_on_the_Duc Water: Bogachiel Date: November 12, 2004 Report: Fished hatchery to Wilson. Rolled one winter brat first cast in the hatchery hole. Saw one other landed. River was at 27.5 feet on the USGS gauge. Look for a big push of fish after the next high water. Thanks to: Undisclosed Water: Humptulips Date: November 6, 2004 Report: This was my first time fishing the Humptulips River...I recently moved here from Alaska. Lots of fish. Lots of people. I was standing at a hole by my self and had 4 people come down and camp right on top of me...one guy stood six inches from my right! There was lots of room all around! Other people were casting from clear across the river and hooking our lines. I decided after about one minute that I did not go fishing to catch people. Went down stream and caught a good number of silvers and kings and released them (and released them appropriately). Ever since I was a boy fishing my home Alaskan waters I have needed to fish in places other think they can't get into. That's how I find peace and quiet and fish! Thanks to: Eric Burleigh Water: Minter Creek Date: November 1, 2004 Report: well the chums aren't in yet but the seals are chasing a few straggler silvers, not a lot goin' on. Thanks to: FraFra Water: Green Date: October 31, 2004 Report: Went and fished Metzler tryin' to get a steelhead before the dogs came in. Saw a bunch of dogs roll but no steelhead. Ended up hookin' one nice silver. Thanks to: Mikey Water: Skok Date: October 9 Report: Fished Skok 10/09/04 a few fish by Pump House & Purdy Creek hole. A few kings still around mostly coho & some chum are showing. Go early & leave early to beat the crowds. Water level should good in a day or two it blew out on me but with a limit of coho it was worth getting soaked. Use long leaders 6ft+ to avoid spooking fish try it. Thanks to: Thomas Octuck Water: Carbon Date: October 1 Report: went on the 1st, got there late just wanted to see what was going on. Seen about six silvers getting gray bellied not too many chromies left. It's 3 a.m. on the 2nd going to get the a.m. bite today. Good luck all. Thanks to: Flicker Water: Hood Canal Date: August 28 Report: went out to Hood Canal Saturday, scoped the Skok., lots of fish moving in the lower river, river was pretty low and gin clear, fished the upper river for trout with scattered success when we could get away from the salmon. drove north and looked at the Quilcene around noon ... took one look at the people fishing and all the tuna rods traveling with them and began to laugh uncontrollably. went south and fish the upper stretches of the D & D hooking into some beautiful native bows in the teens, and managed to spot some coho summer chum and even a few steelies in the lower stretches while probing for more cuts and bows ... glad they close on the 31st, give those poor chum a break. Awaiting the craziness on the Skok. come Wednesday, just remember stay legal and stay in the water, keep your tackle boxes and nets and trash off the bank!!! Thanks to: Gettnsnapper Water: Pt. Defiance Date: July 2,2004 Report: Fished the Clay Banks, did the Owens beach to the point Moochers drift from 5am to about 2pm. Tide was screaming with a 16ft difference. saw only a few fish for a 60-70+ group of boats. Scratched out a nice 'Nookie only to feed a seal lunch after a short battle on the end of my line. Fishing was poor at best. Thanks to: Hammer7 Water: Sol Duc / Hoh Date: June 11 Report: Pretty quiet on the Hoh & 'duc this past weekend, shifted over to the Cowlitz, summer steelies pushing N hard, lots of fish being taken and plenty of action. The Cowlitz river simply produces ... may want to shift if ur not catching fish on the coast inland. Thanks to: Charlie R. Water: Sky, Sultan area Date: June 1 and 5 Report:
was on the river for about 8 hours each day with my Thanks to: Hunter Water: Cowlitz Date: April 18 Report: fished low with no results, got crowded went up river picked up 2 summer run and 1 springer. Thanks to: Greenback Water: Cowlitz Date: April 11 and 12 Report: Fished the Cowlitz Sunday afternoon by the barrier dam, a few good hits but no takers, lost one jack, fished late Monday no action, they're in there but not in large numbers, water is clear and low. Thanks to: headshakes Water: Zipperlip, Republic of Ireland Date: April 11 Report:
Caught some nice browns to 20 inches on the 5 weight. Had
a great day and a good laugh. I can still catch'um even though I don't
live in WA anymore. Sea trout, next on tap!!! Thanks to: steve Water: Hoh Date: April 10-11 Report: caught a few fish. Thanks to: Salmo g. Water: Cowlitz Date: April 9 Report:
It was my day off, so there's no way I was getting up at
O'dark-thirty. More satisfying to have a leisurely breakfast and read
the morning paper. However, the sports section read: "fishing has
slowed on the Cowlitz due to fluctuating river flows . . ." Oh great,
ain't no where else to fish today within an hour's drive. Slow fishing
is what I've been having the last few trips, so what's one more? Thanks to: Steve Zimmer Water: Hoh Date: March 27, 28, 29, 30 Report:
Another exceptional spring steelhead adventure! I'm from
Pennsylvania and am lucky to travel to the Northwest at the right times
of the year...for the past eight years. Spring time means Olympic
Coastal Rivers for myself and wife. Thanks to: Kurt Kettel Water: Sol Duc Date: March 27 and 28 Report: Fished hard both days--first from Maxwell to Whitcomb/Dimmell; second from Whitcomb/Dimmell to Rainier Bridge. Touched one the first day, none the second day. Caught none/released non. Great water clarify--saw some get caught but we had no luck. Thanks to: Robert Shaw Water: Hoh Date: March 27 Report:
JUST BECAUSE THE WATER IS HIGH Thanks to: Brian Oldfield, Brian's Fishing Co. Water: Chehalis Date: past month Report: Been doing unbelievably well on the middle Chehalis from Centralia down. Mostly wild fish now but have had a few hatchery fish on occasion. Some HOGS here now. Released 2 fish last week over 40 inches long, the bigger being almost 43 inches long by 22.5 around! Looking for the springers to show on the next good rain, hopefully about the time it opens! Thanks to: Jon Keithly Water: Morse Creek Date: February 28 and 29 Report: Started out up at the green bridge in Four Seasons park and walked up from there. Hit the first hole which was a really deep, slow stretch. made one cast using metallic red corkie and sand shrimp tail and lost one due to rats nest then I casted again and nailed a hen about 5 pounds. My cousin moved up to where I was fishing , so I moved down to where he was and made one cast and nailed another steelie about 6 pounds and released it due to the adipose fin that didn't seem to go away! Then we moved up to the next two holes which was another slow pool and I moved up to where this guy was fishing before and I made one cast and caught a steelie about 5 pounds (another hen) so I was limited out in about 20 minutes which was awesome. The next day me and my cousin went to the same spot (this was the last day of the season) and didn't hook a thing until we came to this nice ripple then a tailout so he took the tail out and I fished the top of the hole and hooked a metal head about 8 pounds and it was hatchery so kept it . about an hour later, we used the stealth technique and managed to land a buck about 5 pounds. I never seen that many fish caught on Morse creek. We managed to land one more steelie on the bait we had left. ( only had 9 sand shrimp and some store bought eggs and fished for 9 hours) Thanks to: Wayne Rasmussen Water: Upper Chehalis Date: February 23 Report: Started at Centralia fished from 6:30 to 5pm 3 fish on 2 in the boat. luckily a few deer and several eagles along the way made it a great day slow but great. Both fish were 27 inches long M and F. Thanks to: Greenback Water: Cowlitz Date: February 14, 15 Report: The wife and I fished the Cowlitz upstream of the mouth of the Toutle sat and late sun. No action, nice weather I can't complain to much. I was using sandshrimp and eggs because the river is still milky colored (I was bank fishing) no one else was getting anything either. I'll try again this weekend, maybe in the morning. Thanks to: Pat Chadwick Water: Forks Date: January 10 Report: The Brats came and went we did well (limits all around) and my son, fresh home from Iraq had a hell of a good time!!!! Aruba looks nice but I only have one question. What no Bikinis? Come on Bob............. Thanks to: Karl Water: Hump Date: December 26 Report: Floated the Hump today. 7 hookups with 3 landed. Nice fish 8-12#. Water was a little high but decent color. Please stop raining. Thanks to: Bill Water: Bogachiel Date: December 26 Report: Well fishing was great as long as you beat Bob to the right spot.. Ha ha ... Bob wish you would have taken a picture of those polite to legged fish crossing in front of your clients lines. Fishing was great that day but has toned down in people and fish since. Thanks to: Aaron Freyslaben Water: Dungeness Date: December 14 Report: I went down to the river in the afternoon. I brought two rods one for plunking and the other for float fishing. I tried plunking for a wile, all I caught was a 5 pound dolly. I walked from the hatchery intake pipes down river. I did not get much. Then i got to a nice long green hole next to the road. I tried a float and eggs, first cast my float ripped under. At the other end of my line was a 7 pound hatchery steelhead. It frayed my 6 pound leader bad. so I sat there tied up anew one. Then I threw on another ball of eggs. Casted it in at the top of the hole then half way through it went under again. I pulled out another hatchery male steelie. I fished a lot longer in that hole with roe and a float. All I caught for the next few hours were Dollys. Then I threw on a pink jig with a pink rubber worm and some shrimp sent. First cast I caught another steelie about 6 pounds. I fished for about another half an hour without a bite, so I decided to put on a Gamakatsu jig purple and pink. After about 30 casts I caught a 9 pound chrome steelie. For the rest of the day I didn't get anything. So I went home. I was really surprised about the hatchery steelhead. I have fished this river for years. You would fish the river for a week solid and get one or two steelies, that were most likely wild. This is going to be a really good year.. So I suggest going to the dungy instead of driving to forks and getting skunked some of the time.. Thanks to: Mikal Bell Water: Skykomish and N.F. Sky Date: December 6 Report: Fished near Reiter Ponds early morning to no avail. Saw three get beached on the highway side that same morning. Went high on the North Fork and tried my luck. Saw a few from one of the upper bridges but could not coax it to biting ANYTHING. On the way home stopped at the highway side of Reiter. Still no luck but watched some guys leaving from the other side with at least four fish. River at Reiter is green and about 3-4 ft visibility, upper river (N.F.) was pretty clear. Maybe I'll try a different approach next time. Thanks to: Lip Ripper Water: S.W.Wash/Kalama Date: November 29 Report: Got a nice silver throwing eggs Saturday in the canyon. I have also heard that there is a late shot of big chinook that have moved into the N. Fork of the Lewis. Thanks to: Jon Keithly Water: Dungeness Date: November 12 Report: started at about 3:30 right after school and caught the evening bite. Landed two wild silvers and lost a nice hatchery right at the shore. Lots of chums!!! Some silvers on the move though. Hopefully by this weekend there will be more that moved up. Fished mainly at the school house. Thanks to: J.B. Water: Skagit Trib Date: November 7 Report: Fished 4 hours today on a tributary entering the Skagit river drifting a little corkie and very small amount of eggs. Caught 10 Silvers and one big dollie-26inches and about 5 pounds! Wow, dollies get that big? gin clear water conditions and in the Skagit 1-2 feet of visibility. Some good #'s of Chums showing up too. Thanks to: Jim Water: Carbon River, Orting Date: November 6 Report: me and a buddy are going all day out to the carbon in Alderton and Orting to try our luck. Hope we do good last year we killed em out there. Kinda fishing late cuzz of work but will write back and let you all know how it was. One tip, peach corkies were the ticket. I'll see you all sat morn to tell you how it was. Thanks to: Jon Keithly Water: Dungeness Date: October 28 Report: started at daylight and river was still high. but managed to land 1 silver actually two. one was a 5 pound hen and the other was a 15 pound buck but had to release it. just waiting to get back out there after the river drops. Thanks to: Platypus Water: Barrier Dam Date: October 22 Report:
A big disappointment is all I can say. My brother-in-law
and I drove 2 1/2 hours in hopes of finding some nice late-fall Silvers
and maybe a bonus King. What we got was a whole lot of rain and one too
many blackened Kings. We were their from 7am till 6pm and caught between
us a couple dozen very dark fish each and never seen one Silver caught.
All in all we were a day late or two but still had an awesome time
catching and releasing one dark fish after another. Still plan on making
one more trip down to the mouth of the Toutle in hopes of catching some
of them classic cookie cutter big Silvers we have gotten the past few
years. Either way, always awesome being down their on the river. By the
way, what ever happened to river courtesy? When a guy way up river has a
fish on, why the heck don't they yell "Fish coming down" instead of
waiting till their fish is quarter mile downriver and hooked in the tail
or fin and them strolling down as if its no big deal? I cant even begin
to tell you how many times this happened their on Sunday. I know them
big Kings got a mind of their own, but come on guys, use common
courtesy. Thanks to: Platypus Water: Quil Date: October 11 Report: Lots of fish in the river. Caught 6 fish and kept one coho at 18 lbs. #3 spinners working the best. Fish are in great shape. Not that many people fishing. Everyone brought fish to the take out. Thanks to: Chris Graham Water: Oregon Coast Date: Sept. 29 Report: Alsea upriver very slow for Chinook. Only saw 5 caught. 2 hens, 3 bucks. Thanks to: Ron Newberry Water: Toutle Date: Sept. 24 Report: Got a question: Can you freeze salmon eggs after curing them? I cured some and have them in the fridge, but wonder how long they'll keep. As for fishing, a lot of kings are still being caught in the Toutle River. Some are in decent shape. Thanks to: Tony S. Water: Snohomish Date: September 20 Report: Today my dad, friend and myself were out at the break of dawn fishing for pinks or whatever would hit our lines. I threw my line in and before I could set it down I had one hammering my bait but I missed him and the rest of the day we couldn't keep them off our lines it was insane, didn't keep and but between the 3 of us we caught about 30 and lost about 30, great day of fishing on the Snohomish river. Thanks to: Tony S. Water:
South Sound / Defiance-Delco / Three Tree Report: Have fished many hours, Defiance and Delco are not what they usually are, lots of boats very few fish, Three Tree Pt. has been good this last week, early morning is the key. Boated a #30 and several small kings that we release. saw several nice kings landed this week at Defiance, I think it is starting to pick up...... On the last Friday of July we fished Elliot Bay, near the mouth of Duwamish, in the evening, we did poorly but the fish checker stated he counted 36 kings and 16 silvers that day, he stated the silvers were small and again early morning seems the best. lets hope it picks up, any suggestions by you long time pros, all these areas we have trolled with D- riggers, and Mooched all with cut plug. Good Luck ....... Thanks to: Jim Leons Water: Hoh Date: Past week Report: Better late then never, with the fishing being real slow on the Hoh the past few weeks, the last week has been real good. With quite a few fish hitting to the forty pound range. For you guys after steelhead they're here, hatchery and native. www.jimleons.com Thanks to: Jerry Hanson Water: Sekiu Date: July 24 Report:
Fished 100yds off the Cave. Used small hotshot
flashers- one with whole herring, one with green splatter back hootchie
glow in dark one with 8 ounces one at 50 feet with D-Rigger. Started at
6am. My buddy Larry hangs a 20 plus king so I reel in and my gear lays
on the surface. All of a sudden the water boils next to my flasher and
this big thing is just rolling over with my herring. I set the hook and
he runs straight out 50 yds. He comes back and then dives to 100 feet,
just ripping line. Larry says to me "watch this fish jump out here!" I
go, I have my own problems here. We got both fish up to the boat after
about 10 minutes but they were both wild and they released easy with the
barbless hooks. Then Larry with the hotspot and splatterback squid
brings in a high 20s fish which ran and fought furiously out there. Some
very sharp and courteous guy stopped his fishing to avoid cutting off
Larry's fish. But he was wild and released untouched. We brought a
number of silvers to the boat and smaller kings but out of the 15 or so,
we only caught one hatchery silver about 3 pounds. The Marina reports 1
in 5 are hatchery fish but I believe it is more like 1 in 10 or worse.
Why so many wild fish? Are they "native" or just unclipped by their
"native" hatcheries that are selling salmon eggs to the white table
cloth Asian restaurant industry? Unclipped hatchery releases would
provide a degree of insurance that the fish return or get bagged in
their nets. I have helped watched the king return at several hatcheries
and noticed that a large number of fish are unclipped upon return.
Anyway at 10 to 1 wild over hatchery fish the Sekiu quota of 3500 should
last a long time. We had a great day despite no keepers. I mean 15 fish
in 3 hours. If these fish are truly native it has to be a good sign that
the preservation efforts are working. I was very impressed with the
staff at Olson's Marina. Their store is open from 4am to 11pm and they
are very friendly and helpful. Thanks to: Jim Leons Water: Hoh Date: Daily Report: The salmon fishing on the Hoh is starting to heat up. Been hooking three to five salmon a day. The numbers of fish will go up from June throgh July. If you would like some information on what's been working, boat take outs or would like to book a trip call or email. Check out my site for updated pictures. www.jimleons.com Thanks to: Brandi Brett Water: Okanogan Co., Conconully Reservoir Date: 6/20/03 to 6/26/03 Report: My husband and I made our maiden voyage with our first camper to Conconully Reservoir and couldn't have had a better time. We stayed at Liar's Cove resort (where the people are just incredible). The owners Nita and Arnie were not only friendly but helpful and welcoming. After our story about the fishing you will understand why it is called Liar's Cove. During our stay we saw at least 10 5lbs or better trout pulled out of the beautiful cool water right off the dock. I myself hooked into a 5lb 8oz trolling with a crawfish lure. The day we left a little girl caught a 7lb 12oz beauty off the dock (dock fishers were using green or rainbow power bait). Not only were the big fish there but people were catching there limit of good size 12 inches or better trout everyday. Everyone we spoke to were return customers and talked about Liar's Cove and the Conconully Reservoir as if they had found a little piece of paradise in Okanogan County, I know we did. I would definitely recommend this destination. Thanks to: Mergantroider Water: A galaxy far away Date: 4/15 Report: Went to an unnamed secret spot. Saw two anglers who didn't know one end of a pole from the other. Fished for 4 hours approx. 6:00-10:00. Caught one steelie chrome bright about 8 lbs. walked upstream first cast in a promising hole as it tailed out had a fish try to slam it three times in about 1 ft of water made huge splashes but I missed her. broke off in a tree across the river and retied. Next cast I nailed her, 12 lbs. a little colored spawned out fish. took pictures of both nice natives. Only natives in this river. Very small water so sweet tailouts are easily spotted. I only fished 100 yards of the river. Caught four on the previous trip April 4th, 2 chromers 2 with rosy cheeks 2 were only about 8lbs, one was 12+ and one was a solid 10 pounder. Again, all natives. its not open for steelhead but the best time to catch steelies is the day it opens and the couple weeks that follow the opening for springers. I'm going again this week to try to pick up a couple springers, I doubt I'll see one angler there. I'll post how many fish and what I caught when I get back Thanks to: Chris Water: Upper Quinault Date: 3/19 Report: fished the upper Quinault today on the bar below the upper bridge. Water vis was 4 when and I started and an hour later down to 3 but still really good conditions, but I doubt it will stay in shape cause man did it rain the entire time I was fishing. Fished about an hour and a half and possibly one take on my spey pole but I couldn't tell. River has changed a lot!!! Thanks to: Jaydog Water: Skookumchuck Date: 3/17 Report: ON THE DRIFT BY 7AM RIVER ABOUT 750CFS. I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE MUDDY INSTEAD IT WAS EMERALD GREEN. THREE OF US FISHING HOOKED TEN FISH LANDED FOUR SAW MANY OTHER FISH ROLL. GOOD FISHING. Thanks to: Hermie Water: Kalama River/ Slab to Modrow Date: 3/11/03 Report: River high, but good color. One strike, no hook ups. Saw 4 other boats, no fish landed. Thanks to: Randy Gobson Water: Snake/Hells Canyon dam Date: 3/7-9 Report: The water was too high to get the fish on the bite. fishing was slow the 7th and 8th. the water was back to normal on the 9th that offered some good steelie action. Randy Thanks to: Jaydog Water: Wynooch Date: 3/7 Report: On the drift before daylight hit 5 fish landed 3 by noon, one was a chrome hatchery hen, spotted maybe ten other fish good luck! Thanks to: Aaron Water: Queets Trib Date: 2/22 Report: Fished the Queets trib today with multiple hookups before limiting on fresh hatchery bucks. Also heard a story from my bud that before the rains came, some of the Quinault guides were having double digit days on the lower Queets. The local buzz is how can they be so late but be so fresh? Just glad to see some numbers around. Thanks to: Aaron Water: Green Date: 2/21 Report: Have to agree with Mark C. Good numbers of quality fish here. Hooked 4 today only landed 1, 12-13 nate chrome buck released. The others kicked my butt. 2 others were large, couldn't keep up with them. Darn brush anyway. Thanks to: Gottagofish Water: Hoko Date: 2/19-20 Report: Fished the Hoko one full day, and fished the next morning before I headed back to Seattle. Had good success both days with a total 6 fish hooked, 3 landed, all released, 0 *bonked*. Also ventured to the fly only waters to investigate the situation. Thanks to: Pat Water: Soleduc Date: 2/19 Report: Fished the Duc low and clear, ran into some fellow fisherman (I mean that literally) Came out of the rock garden and they were anchored right in the only safe passage. Asked them to move (politely) and after being swore at we took the inside and bumped them. Saw lots of fish (the water was that clear) but only had two hookups. One on a Vibrax and the other on eggs. Thanks to: Mark C. Water: Green Date: 2/10 Report: I've fished the green over the past two weeks and have hooked 9 fish so far, bad news is I've only landed two, these fish seem to be Camera shy!! good news is one of the ones I've landed was a chrome bright hen pushing 20lbs! Fish on!!!!!! Thanks to: blaine Water: Bogey Date: 2/10 Report: fished
the Bogachiel on Monday, it was the first time fishing fresh water in
Washington state since I was a kid back in the sixties. didn't catch
anything but am looking forward to discovering the magic of Washington's
miraculous river fishing. Thanks to: Scott Water: Forks Area Rivers Date: 2/6-9 Report: Fished the Hoh Thurs./ Fri. Only had one fish on, too many for a good experience. Did one hole on the SolDuc, got two natives, to many people. Did the upper Bodgy on Sat. hooked one, and lost it. Did the Clearwater on Sun. Didn't fish much, there was at least 12 boats on that small river, and it real slow for everyone! We need to some kind of control of how many boats hit any one river at a time, it is getting to be INSANE! Thanks to: Billy Water: Puget Sound/question Date: 2/1 Report: Hey there. with the rivers shot for a while and low number of fish, I am going back to old faithful.. the question I have is how can we establish a link or additional web to give reports of the sound.. I am a new steelheader and an avid sound fisher.. I fish every weekend and sometimes during the week.. any suggestions or other links? for reports and to add reports for fellow anglers?? it would be nice to post on this site.. thanks all... Thanks to: FraFra Water: King County Date: 1/30 Report: Puyallup, Green, and Nisqually are out. Thanks to: Fun5Acres Water: Lyre River and Dungeness Date: 1/25 Report: Skunked ... saw one fish in the Lyre, but spooked before I could get a cast off, then I couldn't find him. Both rivers high and colored, but fishable ... not catchable, just fishable. Worst season I remember, hope it's the only one like this, or I'll go back to Blackmouthin'. Thanks to: Tyler Water: Nooksack Date: 1/22 Report: fished for a couple hours. Nothing. Water was clearer than I have ever seen it. Gin. Stopped by a couple local spots to do some high bank spotting and couldn't see a single fish. Wondering where they are... Thanks to: MetalheadRon Water: 'Nooch Date: 1/20 Report: Fished the 'Nooch Monday. My buddy and I started out low down by the white bridge and hit nothing. Saw one small 6-7 lber on the beach. We tried up higher at the Schaffer bar and saw five fish taken none of which were ours dang it anyway. One nice one sixteen lbs and all were brat hens. Could not believe the fishing pressure down low. It was unreal. I was real happy to see some fish showing though. Thanks to: steelheaddude Water: Cowlitz Date: 1/20 Report: wigglewart1 was pretty proud of that sucker :) Thanks to: wigglewart1 Water: Cowlitz Date: 1/20 Report: Blue Creek to I-5 bridge. Nothing, 1 sucker all day geezzz. Thanks to: Mark Water: Cowlitz Date: 1/19-20 Report: Fished the Salmon Sun-Monday with one SMALL winter metalhead caught and released. Only saw one other caught and kept but did see a couple hooked. All very small 5-7 lbs. Thanks to: Metalhead Water: 'Nooch Date: 1/18 Report: Hey Billy, Throw in a whole bunch of freaken jet sleds with those spawners and you will be in for real delight on this once awesome river...Go back to the Cowlitz, not you Billy, the morons running sleds in the NOOCH.... Thanks to: Brad Water: Vedder Date: 1/17-19 Report: Hit 9 steelhead in 3 days of hard fishing, only one hatchery killed .... 12 pounds ... caught on a pink worm. Thanks to: Aaron Water: 'Nooch Date: 1/18-19 Report: Hey Billy, regarding your 1/18 report, the only thing hot about the Wynoochee are people's tempers. Too many fishermen and not any quality fish. My best bud (local knowledgeable fisherman) battled the crowds both Sat.& Sun. and caught a spawner each day. I guess down streamers are better than nothing. Thanks to: Aaron Water: Bogy / Sol Duc Date: 1/17-18 Report: Floated Bogy Fri., netted 5, 1 spawner released, 4 kept, one 17lb. hatch. fish in the mix. Looks like they are late. The others were all chromers. Floated the lower Duc Sat. for some early wild/project fish and hooked 4, landed 2 nates 10/12lbs. and released them. Maybe not all is lost for the season. Thanks to: Pat G. Water: Sauk Date: 1/18 Report: Fished sand shrimp on the Sauk from under Gov't bridge to where the Suiattle enters the Sauk. No luck however. Heard reports there were some Dolly's, but no luck there either. Still, a beautiful day on the river. I'll be back. Thanks to: Billy Water: Green Date: 1/18 Report: the last part of my journey ended up on the Green just out of Auburn at the Black Diamond exit under the bridge.. water very low.. paper said fish were running other anglers said different as did my cooler.. just no luck anywhere for me.. any one know about the Sauk??? Thanks to: Billy Water: Cowlitz Date: 1/18 Report: Spent the second part of the journey at the Cowlitz.. my time was split between barrier dam and blue creek.. skunked!!! but so was every one else... talked to a fish cop who had reported no fish in two days.. however he did tell me the Wynoochee is the hot spot and might be the only for a while.. Thanks to: Billy Water: Toutle Date: 1/18 Report: spent the first part of my journey at the south fork Toutle .. selective gear, nice water but no fish.. no other anglers either.. should have known.. Thanks to: Billy Water: Sky Date: 1/17 Report: fished the Skykomish hard today. Started on the north fork at Index below the bridge .. water very low and clear.. seen none caught none.. moved to the Cracker Bar in Sultan and same story.. no other anglers even on the river.. not too good.. where are they? Thanks to: Billy Water: Pilchuck Date: 1/17 Report: fished the afternoon on the Pilchuck just out of Machias.. using roe but only small trout took it.. water low and very clear.. just no fish, seems to be the norm around here for some reason. Thanks to: Vollhunter Water: Snoqualmie Date: 1/14 Report: Drifted Snoqualmie from Plum's to Raging and Richter's ramps. Near perfect water, no fish for me or 3 other boats. A couple dark, spent summer runs being retained by the unknowledgeable. Worst winter run year I have ever experienced, usually have more than a dozen hatchery fish on punch card by now. I'm about to give up that the run is "late", even a game warden who checked me is doubtful on hatchery run steelhead this year!! Thanks to: Chris R Water: Green Date: 1/13 Report: Fished the Puyallup again. Last time before heading back to college. Hooked 2 bright Chum hens on a orange shrimp pattern. These fish were so bright to be in the river in January. Couldn't even tell they were Chums until you looked at them up close. Try fishing the bar across from the soccer fields on River road. Now my secret spot is out. Thanks to: Mark C Water: Green Date: 1/13 Report: Fished the Green just below Flaming G. Monday and hooked one about 8lbs or so and it spit the hook as I was going to pull the hook out, good news is, there's fish!!!!!!! Fish on!! Thanks to: Chromer Water: Green Date: 1/12 Report: Floated the Green on Sunday and we caught one summer run. The only other boat on the river that day caught a summer run as well. I have caught one chrome bright winter run on 1/04/03 and that's it, pretty bleak. I keep telling my self they're just late. Thanks to: Bill Flip Water: North Fork of Sky Date: 1/12 Report: Yah fishin' is hot. 1 summer run and 2 winter below the bridge in Index. Talked to three other fisherman that caught fish. It looks like a ton of the Reiter fish shot up to the n. fork. Grab your poles boys the fish are finally here. All fish were caught drifting shrimp. If you would like to know anything about this zipper lip river then please contact me. Thanks to: Aaron Water: Everywhere Date: 1/12 Report: Anybody know how the natives are doing netting? They are a good source of info. if the hatchery runs are truly nonexistent. Please respond. Thanks to: Aaron Water: Wynoochee Date: 1/11 & 12 Report: Floated the Wynoochee Sat. and attempted Sun. Sat: From White bridge to Black Creek. River still to high/fast to fish effectively. No bites and talked to a lot of fisherman plus a Warden that said the same. I was hoping this river would be different from the rest of the state but it looks like the statewide hatch. returns are virtually non existent. The Sat. night rains raised the river even more so we didn't fish Sun. Thanks to: Luke Water: Green Date: 1/11 Report: Fished the upper Green below Palmer-Kanasket on Saturday and Sunday. Saturday landed a beautiful 15 lb, 35" hatchery buck with a 17" girth using a small corky and sand shrimp. I also had one other good hit that morning. Sunday fished without any luck. Water was low but now appears to be quite a bit higher. Hopefully it will be good this weekend. Thanks to: Rod Bender Water: Green Date: 1/11 Report: Started at Palmer across from the hatchery, but got blown off the water pretty quick. Man, can the wind blow up there. Went down to what we call the "Big Eddy Fredie hole" in the state park. Saw lots of small fish jumping and rolling but nothing on our rods. Has anybody been fishing on the upper Green? If so, please report. I don't know if the fish are late or if this is just a really bad year on the Green. Thanks to: Billy Water: Green Date: 1/11 Report: Fished the Green under Highway 18 bridge just east of Auburn. Fished for about 3 hours, water extremely low and clear. No fish caught or seen for that matter. Did hear of one being caught by my fishing partners' son two days earlier on small corky, not sure of color. It was a winter run hen about 12 pounds. When are they coming????? Thanks to: Chris R Water: Puyallup Date: 1/11 Report: I have fished the Puyallup for 2 days. Chums are still in the river and some in very good shape. Hooked a big Steelhead today on the lower river on a Spey pole and a red marabou fly. Took me 50 yards into my backing and then was gone. I think the fish might be moving in, finally. Thanks to: Fun5Acres Water: Lyre Date: 1/8 Report: Third time out, still fishless, fished low clear, and twice high with perfect color...not a strike! Saw only one fish being packed out trip before last...that's it! Pathetic. Thanks to: DHolt Water: Green Date: 1/8 Report: Fished a few hours saw nothing. Where are the steelhead? Guys fishing but the water was pretty clear. Need more reports on this river Thanks to: Chrisman Water: Sky Date: Every weekend Report: Been fishing the Sky everywhere and have not seen anything caught. The only steelies I have seen were some spawned out summers. I still have confidence they will be coming in later. Thanks to: vollhunter Water: Snoqualmie Date: 1/6 Report: Drifted
Snoqualmie from Plum's to Fall City. Water condition marginal w/2.5'
visibility. NO FISH! Thanks to: richardcleary Water: Cowlitz Date: 1/6 Report: Went
down to blue creek got there at 2am., on fish Thanks to: Billy Water: NF Stilly Date: 1/6 Report: River system is fishable due to lack of rains but emergency closure is in effect till Feb 28. Fortson is closed.. you can still access the n. fork at the boulder hole and slide hole. be very careful though the only access to boulder is either down bolder creek of by going to the slide and crossing the river slightly up stream and going up river to the bolder hole. have not fished the boulder hole this year but did fish the slide with no luck.. will try tomorrow at slide and submit a report.. good luck. Thanks to: LipRipper Water: SW Washington Rivers Date: 1/5/03 Report: I have fished the Grays, Elochoman, Kalama, Naselle and a couple of other little honey holes and gotten one fish all year!!! I throw very good bait into holes that have produced fish for me over the last thirty years. I heard the Cowlitz was supposed to have a good run this year which usually means that the other rivers near there will follow suit to one degree or another. Everywhere is the same story. This has got me pretty worried. What does the future hold? Thanks to: Patriceo Water: N. Fork Lewis, Kalama Date: 1/5/03 Report: What the heck! I don't know what has happened to our hatchery run. Fished up and down both rivers this week, haven't seen much going on. Still quite a few summer run fish (and rednecks who insist they are early winter run) but very few bright fish. Somebody give me a good report ... please! Thanks to: Billy Water: Stilly Date: 1/2/03 Report: After a wild weather front I decided to fish the north fork anyway. Fortson hole was about 6 to 7 feet high, only three other diehards shared the hole. After 45 minutes managed to pull a chrome bright 8.5 pounder fishing float orange corky and roe. Miserable water conditions, limited access to any holding water. Thanks to: ta'ch Larson Water: Everywhere! Date: 1/2/03 Report: Where are the fish? I have been fishing hard every where, my bud Bill Herzog and I have been talking and we can't figure it out, Tides?? Ocean netting???? I don't get, I mean the hatchery on the Puyallup River plants 150 thousand steelhead, and so far know one has seen a hatchery steelhead on the hole river. Where are the fish????? Thanks to: Billy Water: Stilly Date: 1/1/03 Report: After trying a less productive river I moved to the south fork of the stilly. The Fortson hole was phenomenal. though heavy rains dampened the mood and I actually hooked no fish, within 45 minutes I personally seen at least 6 brought in. The slide hole was also in sweet perfect condition. rain has not effected these holes. people were most productive on small corkies primarily orange and pink backed with roe or shrimp tails. holes should hold out for a few more days if rain persists. Thanks to: Billy Water: Sky Date: 1/1/03 Report: Fished the Cracker Bar in sultan from daylight till about 10 am, not a fish caught by myself or other anglers. Spoke to many drift boaters and nothing there either. System is just not producing like usual for this time of year. Best bet is Reiter with jigs and bobber floats, just not a productive system right now. Forced me to find another river for the afternoon. This was the seventh day I fished the system in the past two weeks, the only fish I have seen was at Reiter ponds, and at best I have only seen 3 taken ... not too good. Thanks to: Mike Water: SKYKOMISH, N. FK. SKYKOMISH Date: 12/31 Report: FISHED CRACKER BAR ABOUT 3 HRS. IN THE A.M. NO FISH CAUGHT BY ANY ONE. WENT UP TO REITER 5 OR 6 TRUCKS IN PARKING LOT. TALKED TO A COUPLE OF GUYS ,NO FISH TAKEN THERE EITHER. FOLLOWED REITER ROAD UP TO INDEX. STOPPED ABOUT A 1/4 MI. FROM INDEX JUST TO LOOK AT THE RIVER. SAW TWO STEELIES WITH BRIGHT RED SIDES ABOUT TWO FT. FROM SHORE, BUT SPOOKED THEM OFF. Thanks to: Chuck Water: NF Stilly Date: 12/30 Report: Fished the NF from 7:00 to noon today, bite was on for 2 of us, the rest just wished it was too. Quite a few summer run left, but lockjaw has set in. Both fish were taken on eggs, one drifting and the other floating, and both summer runs. Both hit at around 7:30 am and that was it. Hope the winter run show up soon or it's gonna be a long winter waiting on springers!! Later. Thanks to: vollhunter Water: Green near Tukwila Date: 12/20-23 Report:
Plunked lower Green near Tukwila for the last 3
days. Thanks to: hunterfisher77 Water: N. Stilly Date: 12/22 Report: water is steelhead green up river, little gray below slide. handful of summer runs caught yesterday, didn't see any caught today and didn't hear of any. Trying to be patient they will be here soon, the winter runs that is. Thanks to: Ray Hanson Water: Pullayup Date: 12/21 Report: Fished the Puyallup above Sumner with my friend Jim. We were on the river by 8 am, nobody else around. The river was in great shape with just a little color. Got us both excited with anticipation of chrome steelhead. On my third cast, I set the hook only to having the fish come off after a few head shakes. Jim was still fumbling with his leader, but it didn't take him long to get finished after the missed fish. The very next cast hooked a chrome chum hen about 6 lbs. The next hour produced 3 more bright chums. All hooked in the mouth and released. Jim finally hooked a chum himself when we decided to move downstream. We weren't even using green and the chums were aggressively taking our pink corkie/yarn. After we tried a few more spots unsuccessfully, we came back to the starting point only to find the chums were gone. No steelie today, but it was fun on my noodle rod. No competition on the river either. Wonder where everyone else is fishing? We headed to see what was happening on the green and found it low/clear. The only action happening seemed to be chums here also. Where are the steelhead???? Thanks to: Rod Bender Water: Hump Date: 12/20 Report: We got on the water early, put the drift boat in at the hatchery. The water still had a little tint of brown but was turning green quick. We fished above the big log and saw two fished hooked from shore. After pulling plugs for an hour or so we decided to drift down to the bluff hole (big mistake, long walk back and no fish). After getting the boat back to the large hole just below the hatchery we finally started seeing some action. I hooked two chrome bright winter Steelhead just above the log and had my first limit day of the year. Saw several fish taken at the mouth of the hatchery, but it was crowded and we didn't want to stand in line for a spot to fish. We tried everything and finally had the best results with a orange cheater with chrome wings. Each fish slammed it. Thanks to: steelee Water: Green / Duwamish Date: 12/19 Report: plunked for chums for an hour on lower green. Caught only fishing line. Use good bait fresh sand shrimp. then I float fished for some winter runs. no fish
Water: Sky Date: 12/18 Report:
Fished today, Wednesday 12/18 from 6am to 11am. I saw about a dozen fish
caught, 2/3rds bright winter runs. At 8:30 I caught a 5 lb hatchery hen
(winter run) on a corky/eggs. As far as I could tell, every other fish
was caught by bobber heads. What's up with that?? Seems like hardly
anyone is drift fishing Reiter. Next thing you know I'm going to hear
someone say to me "Hey, don't you know this is bobber water? Stop
drifting gear in this hole!" :slap: Thanks to: Paytonious Water: Stilly Date: 12/11 Report: Water was very cloudy and murky. I saw a couple of Chum surface but no action on anything. What's the forecast for Friday up around Forks? Note from Bob, answered via email :) Thanks to: Karl Water: OP Date: 12/10 Report: A note to WoodDuck. Info. is powerful. So powerful it brings a lot of well conditioned 180# scissorbills that do nothing but screw up the small stream experience for those of us that over the years spent endless days of exploring to find that unique and rewarding experience. If you are a fly guy, the last thing you want is a bait thug low holing you on a small stream stinging up all the fish before you get a chance at em. So lets be smart and use this communication technology wisely. On small streams zipperlip em, and if you wish to share positive info., ALWAYS HOW NEVER WHERE. Note from Bob: Discussion is good :) However, this will be the last post I place on here regarding this matter. We DO have a bulletin board on the site to share your opinions on this :) Thanks to: WoodDuck Water: OP Date: 12/9 Report: A special note to Tom Biggens. If you are too sensitive to talk about the small waters and their fragile ecosystems, QUIT FISHING THEM. Do you think we are all eco-thugs out here? Please! I am a fly guy, and love the small water. I tread lightly, and to be honest with you, the the 600lb jerks aren't gonna fish it if they can't take a boat down it. Information is powerful with fishing, don't be a jerk about it. Thanks to: John Water: Washougal Date: 12/8 Report: Decent, I started up by the 17th street bridge and hooked one steelie on some eggs and lost him. Made my way down to the church hole and landed a nice native on a jig and bobber. We need rain bad hooked only two fish all day Thanks to: Platypus Water: Bogey Date: 12/7 Report: boated from hatchery to Wilson, water low but with color. Two brats about 5 pounds on small orange corky and yarn. Saw at least 8 fish caught along the drift. Thanks to: Dave Water: Bogey Date: 12/6 Report: Fished the Hatchery run. Despite low conditions we brought five fish to the boat. Three hatchery and two bright natives (RELEASED!). A beautiful sunny day and my brother caught his first steelhead. All five on sandshrimp. Thanks to: detox_sucks Water: Stillaguamish Date: 12/6 Report: first couple of hours were slow hooked between 15 and 20 chums all C&R. I was about to pack up then then I saw a tug on the line set the hook and pulled in 16 to 18 pound winter run chromer, beautiful fish approx 34 inches took close to 30 minutes to bring it in. Caught chum on spinner and drift. Caught Steelhead plunking with yellow spin and glow and sand shrimp Thanks to: Skeets Water: Lower Sky Date: 12/3 Report:
We looked around for steelhead for a while with no luck we need a good
rain! then we got out the plugs and fished them for a while with limited
success on chums, we got over 20 trout though :) waiting for the big
ones to come.... Thanks to: Tom Biggins Water: OP Date: 12/3 Report: This is a plea to those of you who submit fishing reports to this website. When you report on a productive day of fishing, you advertise that river. In most cases this is a great service to the fishing community. My buddies and I have often experienced great outings based on these reports. However, I ask that all of you report only on major rivers and refrain from submitting reports on the small creeks and minor tributaries found across the Olympic Peninsula. These are extremely fragile ecosystems that can be easily damaged when over-fished. Thanks to: Fishslayer Water: Columbia/John Day Dam Date: 11/28 & 30 Report: Fished about six hours Thanksgiving Day, no fish but seen a few caught. Went back Saturday and caught two hatchery steelhead, one about 12 and the other about 20. A Great day fishing! Thanks to: Salmo g. Water: Hoh Date: 11/30 Report: Water was low and the clearest I've ever seen it this time of year. The weather was blue sky and shirtsleeves. I could only account for a Dolly Varden/bull trout that must be slurping up drifting chinook eggs. No steelhead in sight. That was the story from other anglers I spoke with as well. Spent the previous day on the Queets, also low now but remaining murky. All those steelhead from the previous week must have shot up their favorite tributary, as I couldn't find a one. Low water resulted in many lost flies; time to tie more. Thanks to: Platypus Water: Bogachiel Date: 11/29 Report: Saw a few small hatchery steelhead caught. Fishing pretty slow. went to lyre river and C&R 3 dark metalheads. All caught on chrome spinners. Thanks to: J.Kuhn Water: Sky Date: Thanksgiving, '02 Report: Had a great day, seven landed in three hours, and five that got away. Six chum and one sockeye. the biggest was about 15lbs. Time for some turkey! Thanks to: SuperDave Water: Skok Date: 11/24 Report: The river is finally back to fishable. Caught a couple chums that were "OK" and a really nice looking silver around 8#s. Saw a couple of other silvers taken. Thanks to: Cdog Water: Hoh Date: 11/24 Report:
The water was clear enough that I thought it would be great. It wasn't
although there were no other fishermen around which was good enough for
me. No fish but a great day. Thanks to: Platypus Water: Sol Duc Date: 11/23 Report: Too many people at hatchery. Put in at Maxfield, one 10# bright coho on no.4 chrome home made spinner. Went from there to Lyre river and c&r'd 4 dark summer steelhead on same spinner. Thanks to: Rick Gurule Water: Kalama Date: 11/22 Report: The river has finally cleared of the Fall leaf hatch and has great clarity. Still have not touched a silver and may not this season. Heard of a drift boat with a nice winter steelie. Pulled into lower hatchery drift and talked to a guy who just released a chum, go figure. On my third cast had an October run steelie try to slurp my eggs and I crossed her eyes! The only fish I felt all day. Still very slow action for late November. Waiting for the first push of winter fish now. Thanks to: Wildcat Water: SKOK/KENNEDY/CANAL Date: 11/20 Report: FISHON, Here's your report......The Skok is too high to fish, don't even bother. The Hoodsport Chum run peaked about two weeks ago, but there are still plenty of fish (Best run in years). Kennedy is good, but expect crowds. Johns Creek is done. My best bet, Hoodsport just north of Finch Creek. Thanks to: Fishon Water: Kennedy Creek Date: Now Report: I wanted to get a report from anyone on Kennedy Creek near Shelton for chums. Has anyone been out there in recent days? Is the Hood's Canal chum fishery over? How about the Skokomish? Thank you Thanks to: Fishingfool Water: Lower Quinault Date: 11/17 Report: Rain brought in all of the Chinook waiting out in the ocean and the lower river. My partner and I fished from the 101 bridge down and caught fish from top to bottom. Boated 3 Chinook, #30,#24,#24 and lost two to tree stumps/roots. The fish were strong and each one took at least 30 minutes to get in. My arms are still sore! The best day of fall Chinook fishing ever. Thanks to: KingFisher85 Water: Lewis Date: 11/17 Report:
Fishing was slow. Fished all day. All day with no hits, no bumps,
nothing till 2:30, tap tap, fish on. I ended up getting a 12 to 14 pound
bright hen silver. Thanks to: CD Water: Sol Duc / Bogie Date: 11/14 Report: Most excellent day on both. King, chum, silvers, native steelie and a couple hatchery models to boot. Thanks Bob! Thanks to: John B 206 Water: Hump Date: 11/12 Report: 2 hours of fishing=20 or so red hooknose silvers and a 35# chrome bright king caught and released!!! Thanks to: Chromer Water: Green Date: 11/10 Report: fished for about 4hrs. 2 take downs. Silvers, chum, early winterrun? Need more reports on this stream, the upper river is beautiful. Thanks to: Wildcat Water: Skok Date: 11/6 Report: Usually the Skok is near blown out by now. The low water showed me what I had been missing all this time. Tons of Chums, plenty of Coho, and a few old Kings gave my arm a good workout. Thanks to: Woody Woodside Water: Puget Sound Date: 11/2 Report: Biggest bait ball I've seen in 20 years off Possession, it went clear to the west side, shrimp and hearing packed up tight. Thousands of birds and mass fish, sea lions also. It was crazy!!! Limited on blackmouth in 20 min.
Thanks to: Sunfighter Water: West End Date: 11/2 Report:
Rivers are closed, staying home weekends. Thanks to: Oooowow Water: Green Date: 10/27 Report: Fished the green today, lots of dark silvers very few bright ones. I landed a 10 pound hen that was fairly bright, most fish were snagged. RIP SOME LIPS Thanks to: Lastcast Water: Columbia, McNary Dam Date: 10/26 Report: Good for some, really poor for me. Seemed to get there just as the fish quit biting but has been very good for the last couple weeks. Thanks to: Wildcat Water: Queets / Salmon Date: 10/23 Report: Fished the Queets at the mouth of the Salmon. I have never seen so many silvers in this river. All fish were red or very dark. I did manage to get a few biters on small spoons. Rain???? Thanks to: Fishboy Water: Sky Date: 10/19 Report: there are some early chums in there now, my buddy fought one for a half hour then it jumped and threw the hook, it was about 20 lbs. I landed a 25 pound king, and we came home with one fresh silver, fishing has been good despite the low water. Thanks to: Jimbo Water: Queets Date: 10/18-20 Report: water extremely low lots of old fish but biting very active fish from 12 to 16 lbs, too bad the drift boats are so rude no water for boats but they were still on the water. Thanks to: Paul Munson Water: Wynoochie/Chehalis Date: 10/14-18 Report: Very tough conditions, low and clear with too much sunshine. Needs water desperately. Will be on fire if we get rain. Chehalis good for sturgeon. Coho limits available on the Humptulips but fish dark and the situation is total combat fishing. Thanks to: KATCHnSTYX Water: Carbon / Pullayup Date: 10/14 Report: I fished the dump end of the Carbon down about a mile into the Puyallup and back again. From 7am to 1pm had 1 decent strike but she got away. Water is still very low, and very cloudy. nice weather though!! Thanks to: clay fishman cowden Water: Tillamook Bay Date: 10/7 - 8 Report: fished inside south jetty landed a 40 lb a 20 lb and a 16 pounder and lost a pig at the boat. Need a report on hood canal for this weekend e-mail me at claycowden@aol.com thanks fish-on Thanks to: Wasp Water: Lower Snohomish Date: 10/7 Report: Lots of bright silvers jumping and slapping. VERY finicky, though. hook with red yarn or size 0 Dick Nites producing. Bite extremely light, so pay attention. Thanks to: Peanut Turd Water: Pullayup Date: 10/1 Report: The fishing was crazy. In three hours two large schools of fish swam in. Not your everyday school! Schools of 100 or more. Hooked at least 30 fish. The rain is only going to make it better. River Road access. Thanks to: Au Hills Water: La Push Date: 9/28 Report: Was the Last Chance Fishing Derby, largest chinook per the Forks Chamber of Commerce was a little over 45 Lbs. For Coho 18 Lbs. Wow. This area still open thru Oct. 6, 2002. I am hoping for low winds and rain to fish in for the last weekend. Thanks to: Will Madison Water: Big Quilcene Date: 9/27 Report: EXCELLENT I had my limit in about 20 minutes! Fish from Rogers Street up. Thanks to: fishboy Water: Skykomish Date: 9/22 Report: Good, lots of nice silvers in there now, hooked three landed one about 8 pounds, corkies and yarn, river seems a little low still. not aggressive enough for spinners yet, it is better to drift for them. good luck. Thanks to: Fishman Water: Chehalis Date: 9/21 Report: Fished all day not much action, some caught some lost, best on the incoming tide. A lot of fish on the fish finder but need rain to move the fish upriver. Thanks to: Mike Water: Duwamish Date: 9/21 Report: Steady, only fished for about two hours. Had two nice fish on and saw a dozen landed 15lbs+. Remember, only Silvers (some people don't read the rules very closely). Anything red. Thanks to: Tug Water: Admiralty Island streams Date: 9/10-15 Report: Just returned from my guide job at Whaler's Cove Lodge near Angoon. The last week of my work, the stream fishing for large silvers was fantastic. Just the sort of thing that everyone wants: You had to work for them just a little bit. A good fisherman would have twenty hook-ups a day using spinners, a good fly fisher would average just a little less. All the fish are wild, and most of them great leapers and screaming reel runners. I would usually get a chance too, and averaged four or five fish per day on my "coffee breaks". The catch was mixed with a few late bright pinks, Dollys, and the somewhat rare cutthroat. It's great to fish in a wilderness area where you see no one else, not even a strange boot track. Lots of bears, but not too much of a problem if you fish primarily in the tidewater areas. Good to be home though Thanks to: Fishboy Water: Sky Date: 9/14 Report: saw lots of good looking silvers and lost two of them. fished corkies and yarn. needs some rain before it gets hot though. Thanks to: Billford Water: Samish Date: Sept. 8 Report: We fished the tide on Sunday morning and took our limit of Kings in about 2 hours. Fishing was crowded. Thanks to: Roar Posti Water: Alta River, Norway Date: 25 years Report:
The fishing was incredible!!! Thanks to: Brian Kelly Water: Big House Date: August 31 Report:
A special thanks to the Huskies for not being able
to count AFTER a timeout and giving the Wolverines precious field
position for the game winner! Hail to the Victors!!!!! Note from Bob: heard the mistake came from a new Michigan transfer to UW, don't worry, school starts soon for him and we'll make up for previous schooling :) Thanks to: Matt Water: Green Date: August 28 Report: Fished above Flaming Geyser. We went up because the fishing was supposed to be good. Lots of Steelies. Thanks to: Big R Water: Hoh Date: August 8 Report: I fished two evenings caught a lot of trout and saw lots of steelies jumping but couldn't get one to bite. The rivers could use a good rain to bring in fresh fish. Thanks to: Jason Water: Snoqualmie Date: August 3 Report: I FISHED FOR ABOUT TWO HOURS IN THE EARLY MORNING. I DIDN'T EVEN GET A BITE, BUT MY BUDDY CAUGHT A FIFTEEN POUNDER ON SUNDAY
Thanks to: Josh Water: Cowlitz (Blue Creek) Date: July 30 Report: It was good fishing. I brought home a 15 pounder and my cousin a 10 pounder, pretty crowded but fishing is good. Thanks to: Big R Water: Sol Duc Date: July 29 Report: I have fished a lot in the mornings and evenings and there seems to be a good number of fish in the deeper holes but, they are so spooky I haven't had one take in a week. Cuts are still good. Thanks to: Big Daddy Water: Cowlitz Date: July 20 Report: Fished the Cowlitz Saturday and Sunday; brought home 11 nice steelies between me and my partner hooked about 20. Very crowded but lots of fish. Thanks to: Big R Water: Sol Duc Date: July 17 Report: The river was low and clear (one board) caught one small sockeye and a bunch of cutthroat but no steelies. There were lots of sockeye last week but have not found where they went. Thanks to: Sunfighter Water: Lake Crescent Date: July 7 Report: Got a monster slab of a cutt. 24 inches and fat 'n sassy. Park says there's a shortage of fish but I think they can't count past their fingers ... best I've seen in many years. Thanks to: Sunfighter Water: Lake Crescent Date: June 28 Report: Fishing's getting good. Got a 19&18 in. cutthroat and several in the 14 to 16 in. class. Still trolling small flatfish on top of water. All healthy acrobats, a lot of fun and hardly any pressure. Good any time of day, just troll past a point and you have a bite. Good luck to any who get out and try. Thanks to: Sunfighter Water: Lake Crescent Date: June 9 Report: Trolled small black flatfish and black wooly bugger with red tail for rainbows in 14 to 18 inch class. Trolled along spruce trail to mouth of lyre river. Stay close to top and troll slow. Lots of hits, about 10 landed and released. Thanks to: Bob Water: Want To Date: May 1 Report: WOULD LIKE TO FISH THE ICICLE RIVER- HAVE ANYONE HEARD HOW THE RIVER IS-HIGH LOW? AND IF ANY FISH IN THERE YET?? THANKS Thanks to: Rob M. Water: Skagit Date: 4/21-28 Report: Fishing's been gooood! Sunday hit eight landed three, Wednesday four landed three, Friday three landed two, Saturday four landed two, Sunday two landed zip. Nice to see a healthy run of fish in the Skagit this year. All the fish seem to be the same cookie cutter size of about seven or eight pounds. Did hook one nice one about eighteen to twenty on Saturday but barbless hook popped out right when I was about to land it. Thanks to: Steeliestevo Water: Quillayute Date: 4/19-20 Report: Me and my buddy Matt fished it hard, I picked up one native steelhead, nothing to brag about. There were a lot of eagles, raccoons, seals and Indians dragging their nets. It was quite the experience ... L8er Steeliestevo. Thanks to: Mark C. Water: Calawah Date: 4/19-20 Report: My buddy and I fished the bank on Friday and Saturday, Friday I landed a nice chrome native hen about 10 lbs, Saturday three fish on landed two, both chrome one fresh hatchery fish about 8 lbs and one native about 12 lbs. Fish on!! Thanks to: Bud Mickelsen Water: Lower Columbia Date: 4/10 Report: Springers are showing up in good numbers, now if weather cooperates expect good fishing next couple of weeks in lower Columbia. Know of several limits taken, beautiful fish! Thanks to: Dan Water: Sol Duc Date: 4/9 Report: Fished the upper part of the river and the water was clear and low but the rain was falling hard. Saw a few fish holding tight to the bottom but they seemed uninterested in our flies. In addition to getting really soaked, I managed to hookup a small but very spunky fish (long line release). Thanks to: Andrew Water: Sauk Date: 4/1 Report: Fished the middle run of the Sauk river today. Weather was great, fishing was fun, catching was a big zero. Talk to several other guys and they reported that fishing has been very slow for several weeks. Where are the toads? Thanks to: Fishinbeast Water: Wind River Date: 3/30 Report: I fished the mouth of the Wind on Saturday and it was very slow. I seen one springer caught, yet it was only about 15lbs. I fished a mag wart and I think that the man got his on a wart as well, it was an orange with black. Thanks to: Joe Water: Middle Columbia River Date: 3/23-24 Report: The fishing is just starting to pick up for Springers. We hooked two the first day, Both hatchery fish, about 20 pounds. My wife caught a nice 30 pounder the second day. Looking forward to a good year! Happy fishing Thanks to: Floating Fool Water: Queets Date: 3/9-10 Report: Fished Saturday with Quinault Tribal Guide. With four of us fishing, we boated six fish, only two were spawners. All over 12 lb, one close to 20. It poured all night Saturday and the river picked up a lot of color. Sunday we bank fished for a couple of hours with only one long line release -- it, too, was a monster. Thanks to: Ray Water: S. Fork Hoh Date: 3/9-10 Report: Fishing was great, catching was poor, camping was wet. fished hard sat and sun. - didn't get a sniff even though conditions were perfect. water started to come up Sunday after the rain. but, still perfect fly water. Thanks to: Fishhook Water: Hoh Date: 3/9 Report:
Water was low with 4 feet of visibility. Thanks to: Steelheadnut Water: Hoh Date: 3/3 Report: Bank fished the Hoh above 101 for seven hours Sunday. What a beautiful fishing experience, and at 2:30 in the afternoon it got even better! A chrome little nate hen about 10 lbs. followed by a 8 lb. nate hen half an hour later. Thanks to: Mark C. Water: Green Date: 3/1-3/3 Report:
Can it get any better than this?? Friday I caught 1 hatchery fish about
8 lbs, On Sat my buddy caught a hatchery fish about 8 lbs and on Sun we
had a double header, first thing in the morning at Flaming G., we landed
both fish, my buddy's went 16.2 lbs and mine went 15.3 lbs, it was just
as fun to catch as it was to watch them swim away!!! about 20 min later
I caught another native about 7 lbs!! Thanks to: James Water: Green Date: 02/17 Report: On Sun. I took the dog and hiked into the gorge above Flaming Geyser. After an hour hike to my favorite run I hooked into and landed a native hen that went about 15 lbs. My biggest ever. This fish went after a jig and float combination at around 2 in the afternoon. Only one fish that day and what a pleasure it was to see her swim away. Good luck and good fishing. Thanks to: Jeff Water: Skykomish Date: 02/16-17 Report: Saturday tried all the usual offerings. Water was low and clear and fish were off the bite. Had a bit of rain Sat night and Sun the water had more color to it. Caught and released NICE 16# wild buck. Saw a small hatchery caught and heard of a few more. Wild Fish are some bad muthers! Thanks to: Mark C. Water: Green Date: 02/15 and 16 Report:
Fished the green again Fri & Sat my buddy and I each landed 1 fish
apiece on Friday 1 native buck about 8 lb's and 1 hatchery buck about 7
lb's, and fished all day Sat and another buddy had 1 on and lost it, I
believe the weather change slowed the bite down!? Thanks to: High Rod Water: Grande Rhonde Date: 02/16 Report: Bank fished at Cottonwood for four hours. Two hatchery hens. One native buck. Corky and yarn. WDFW guy I talk to said these fish are heading for Oregon so they are spread up and down the river. Thanks to: Mark C. Water: Green Date: 02/3 Report: Fished the Green Wed. after work, Bam second cast, fish on!! huge native and it owned me, fought it for about 3 min. before it came out of the water an spit my hook, about 20 min. later, fish on, landed about 8 lb chrome hatchery hen, Fish on!!!!!!! Thanks to: Justin Water: Skykomish River Date: 02/11 Report: Headed out to fish Upper Pilchuck Creek. Stopped at hardware store in Granite Falls to pick-up some sand shrimp for bait; they were out. Drove down to Texaco; they were out. Decided to bag the idea of getting any sand shrimp. Headed out of Granite Falls on Menzel Ck. Rd. towards Pilchuck Creek. Got to the gravel road to head up-river; access gate was locked. Decided to head to Monroe. Bought some sand shrimp at the (Guns, Tackle, etc..) outdoors store in Monroe. Headed up Hwy 2 to Railroad Bridge two miles west of Index. My brother pulled in a 10-inch trout. Decided to fish Boulder Drop; after 40 mins. of fishing there, caught zip. Headed to Sultan; fished there for an hour; caught zip. Started raining; decided to go home. Thanks to: Mark C. Water: Green Date: 02/09 & 2/10 Report: Fished the Green again this past weekend. Caught and released two Nates about 7-8 lbs on Sat. and caught about a 5-6 lb hatchery on Sun! Fish-on!!! Thanks to: Justin Water: N. Fork Stillaguamish Date: 02/09 Report: Headed out to the Fortson Hole around 1pm. Tried shrimp and salmon eggs.....nothing. Tried some lures.....nothing. Saw guy across river with bobber/bait setup pull one in. Fished for about 3-4 hours. Caught 0 Thanks to: Justin Martin Water: Puyallup Date: 02/09 Report: Water was up a tad from yesterday. Did manage to hook up with 2 nates on pink/chartreuse aerofly. Explore and put your time in to find fish in this system. They're out there! Thanks to: Curt Gowdy Water: Puyallup Date: 02/05 Report: Water is real nice, but little to no fish. Fished hard today and hard last Friday. Go up river or to Carbon to fish, some taken up river. Thanks to: Mark C. Water: Green Date: 02/02 & 2/03 Report: Fished the Green Sat & Sun. Landed 2 on Sat, 1 clipped fish for the smoker about 5 lbs and 1 chrome bright Nate (c&r) about 10 lbs. Sun hooked 1 colored Nate about 8 lbs (c&r of course) Fish on!............. Thanks to: Frank Buell Water: Sol Duc Date: 02/02 & 2/03 Report: Hooked 18, landed 12. One fish was 40.5x24.0, lost another that was bigger. Thanks to: Stlhdh2o Water: Wynoochee Date: 02/02 Report: Water conditions were perfect. Everyone we talked to had boated or touched fish. This was my first time floating the Wynoochee, spent a little too much time floating...we had one takedown. A few fish in the teens were reportedly caught upriver... Thanks to: Greg Morris Water: Salmon/Hoh Date: 02/01 & 2/02 Report:
Bank fished the Salmon with my buddy Joe Thanks to: Matt Howarth Water: Satsop Date: 01/29 Report: Still a good mix of Native and hatchery fish, starting to see more native action in the last week or two. Thanks to: Bene Water: Grande Rhonde Date: 01/27 Report: Fished the Grande Rhonde Sunday and my partner and I hit 7 steelies (5 wild and two hatchery) in about 2 hours. Nothing the rest of the day. Thanks to: Lastcast Water: Snake River Ice Harbor Dam Date: 01/26 and 01/27 Report: Started early Saturday fished my butt off all day and nothing a little windy though. Sunday: one fish about 9:00 am that was it. A lot of wind and very few fish. Maybe better next weekend I hope. Thanks to: Curt Gowdy Water: Puyallup Date: 1/27/02 Report: Water was great and my partner nails a nice 8 pound native hen and gets it hung up in the rocks. I wade out get it free and got to play the fish till my friend was getting excited and wanted the pole back. So goes team work. Nice to put one on the bank. Thanks to: Curt Gowdy Water: Puyallup Date: 1/23/02 Report: Got out about 1400 hrs. Fished till dusk and on the last cast was working it and not 2 feet from shore a tap tap like a little trout and I set the hook and a 8 to 10lb chromer, long and slender spits my goody out. Four casts later WHAM, fish on and fish off. Steelhead 5 Curt 0. But not quitting. Thanks to: John A. Water: Sol Duc Date: 1/20/02 Report: Slow on Saturday, missed one fish. Hit 3 on Sunday; 5 lb. Hatchery, Released one dark Wild, and lost another. All hits came on a solid blue or green hotshot size 30. Thanks to: LastCast Water: Columbia River, McNary pool Date: 1/20/02 Report: Fishing was a little slow early but picked up a bit later in the day. Picked up a couple pigs about 11:30 am still nice bright fish both about 14 pounds. Thanks to: Mike Water: Kalama River Date: 1/19/02 Report: River was up a bit today and fairly dirty; almost walked back to the truck. Drifted large corkies and eggs all morning and my buddy threw every thing but the kitchen sink - nothing happening here. Talked with a seemingly well informed and very talkative angler who claimed it was the same story with everyone he had interrogated maybe if this weather will slow up we can get some better water. Thanks to: Dave Water: Kalama Date: 1/17/02 Report: Saw six boats on the river from Prichard's down to Modrow Bridge. Got one nice fish on a blue and silver tad. Guys in another boat had one and said they lost two more. Slow fishing for perfect conditions. Thanks to: Low Holed Water: North Olympic Fly ONLY Date: 1/17/02 Report: To you who were gear fishing the fly only water this week...and you know who you are. Gave you a break 'cause you were fishing with your family this time. Next time license plate # etc will be reported to "fish cops". There's not much fly only water around. It's not much to ask to respect that. Thanks to: Bob Huck Water: Kalama Date: 1/16/02 Report: Never saw a fish, neither did about 9 other fisherman I talked to. Viewed the Elwha, it was "blown out". Thanks to: FishingFool Water: Kalama Date: 1/15/02 Report:
GREAT COUPLE OF HOURS AFTER WORK! DIDN'T HAVE ANY GEAR EXCEPT MY KID'S
SPINNING ROD AND SOME HARDWARE. SECOND CAST HIT A NICE 10# BUCK
NAT.20MINUTES LATER A 5-6# BRAT HEN. WHAT'S UP!? WATER SEEMED AWFUL
CLOUDY BUT WHAT DO I KNOW? BOTH CAME ON BLUE FOX PIXEE SPOON (RED. CAN
ANYONE OUT THERE TELL ME ANYTHING ABOUT THE DOSEYWALLIPS/DUCKABUSH RIVER
SYSTEMS??? TIME OF RUNS ,SUMMER FISH ?SALMON,/STEEL? PLEEEASE I CAN FIND
NO INFO ON THIS GORGEOUS PLACE.. THANKS FISHFOOL Thanks to: Capt. Steelhead Water: Barrier Dam, Cowlitz R Date: 1-5 and 1-6 Report: Fished Sat. noon to dark with fly rod saw three fish taken. One by the gates one below first break, and another at tailout one hundred feet up from boat launch. Sun got there early daybreak, fished hard with fly till about 10:30, switched to drifting eggs worked far side of current seam nothing. Oh well, nice days on the river saw and heard about five fish taken on Sun. Water was good visibility with green in the eight foot depth. Tight Lines. Thanks to: Mike A Water: Skykomish Date: 01/03/02 Report: Water was low with a little bit of color. Hit a nice nickel, chrome bright!! above thunderbird park. The week before we hit a 14 pound hatch/hen in the same hole pulling plugs. Thanks to: Andy Water: Skykomish Date: 01/02/02 Report: Went out to the Skykomish River around 9:00 AM. Fished the Lewis Street bridge on the boat launch side. The river was really low and super clear. Caught a nice steelhead after maybe 2 hours. The fish pulled the scale at 8 lbs. A very chrome hen with sea lice. Hooked the fish with a corky and yarn setup. I had a hell of a time trying to land the fish because I hooked it right by a log and the fish attempted to wrap my line around it, but I managed to horse him right out the there. Didn't see anymore fish caught on either side of the river. Two steelhead for me so far, YEAH!!!!!! Thanks to: Jimmy Water: Lyre Date: 12/28/01 Report: The fishing was bad for me. I got there around 12:00pm and fished in the campground, did not catch a thing. Walked down to the mouth, people were catching fish there when the tide was coming in, said they caught three fish in total. River was still very high but the color was not half bad. Thanks to: Boon Dogin Water: Noochie Date: 12/28/01 Report: Water was at 1500 CFM green color and fishing was ok. Lots of hatchery brats 8 to 12 lbs. Few old summer run late fish on way out. Low is the place to be. I fished 2 days straight, all the fish seemed to be down on the lower end. Next shot of rain will do wonders for my upper drifts. Thanks to: Mr. Beef Water: Salmon River, Olympic Peninsula, WA Date: 12/22/01 Report: Water was slight jade green tint to clear. Lots of Coho in the slack water and steelies in the quick. Saw a few fish caught with light pressure, many out Christmas shopping I guess. Caught 2 chrome bright; 1 on metallic blue #4 Vibrax and 1 on eggs. Thanks to: G-Man from B'Ham Water: Skagit / Rockport Date: 12/22/01 Report: Nice silvers still in back eddies. Big Chums also. Remember, must release all Coho. Metalheads are in. Long, light leaders. Small corkies, wool, eggs or sand shrimp. Water is super CLEAR. Fish above the Sauk.
Thanks to: Ken Martinelli Water: Trinity River, Calif Date: 12/17/01 Report:
Great fishing all day.!!! I caught and released 4 nice adults, plus
numerous 1/2 pounders. All fish caught on the fly Thanks to: Mike Carey Water: Reiter Ponds Date: 12/05/01 Report:
It was slow fishing up at Reiter. My brother and I started at 7am. There
were about 8-9 guys on the pond side, 4-5 on the south side. Most were
using floats. I was drifting small corkie and eggs. Water was moderately
low and a nice steelhead green. I saw about 5-6 fish caught, some bright
ones. The snow mid-morning was quite heavy! Thanks to: KamiahKid Water: Clearwater Date: 11/30/01 Report: Cold, but fishing good. Caught 3, 1 hatchery fish (buck - 16#) 2 Wild (1 hen / approx. 40") Used bait diver with sand shrimp. Thanks to: Jimmy Water: Lyre Date: 11/26/01 Report: I hooked into a 10lb steelhead but I did not land it. River is to high and to fast color is good though. Some guys catching at the mouth of river on salmon eggs. Thanks to: RNewberry Water: Kennedy Creek Date: 11/26/01 Report: I'd like to get out to Kennedy Creek near Shelton to fish for chum. Have the chum been running up the creek in large numbers yet? Thanks to: Eric Tallman Water: Kennedy Creek Date: 11/24/01 Report: Outstanding, The chums are really coming in strong. Caught and released over two dozen chums. Fish at the lowest tide possible using small green or chartreuse corkies and yarn. Thanks to: John Water: Cowlitz Date: 11/23/01 Report: Fishing was good everywhere. I caught two 9 pound hens using a small pink corky. Fish are everywhere and so is the pressure. If you can tolerate the asshole long-lining 30 yards up from you it can be pretty fun and challenging. Thanks to: Riverrat Water: Sol Duc Date: 11/18 Report: I showed up Friday, I had to see the Solduck blown out. It just seems like it has been forever since I have seen the river in the woods. I fished up above the hatchery at afternoon and released a couple of fish. Sunday was awesome! My wife and I hooked a total of 23 fish! Just casting hardware from shore. My wife finally had her glory day with thirty pound king on 12lb test. She fought another one that I would of liked to have seen, after an hour of tug a war. All the fish bit right at our feet, making it hard to fight at times. My wife was using a cheap dime store lure that nobody reading this forum would ever think about using! I am sure the river is going right back out now. Thanks to: RagNailer Water: Hoh, Bogie, Solduc, Quillayute Date: 11/2-11/10 Report: The fishing was excellent. We based out of Three Rivers Resort. Four of us fished for eight days. We floated the Hoh with a guide for four days and limited out on Kings and Silvers every day. We jumped from river to river bank fishing and did equally well. By the fifth day we had 34 fish. We started catching and releasing the 6th day keeping fish only 15lbs and above. It was a great time. Thanks to our guide (who would shoot me if I name him) Three Rivers Resort and the nice people of Forks. We will be back! Thanks to: Chris Water: Sol Duc Date: 10/26 Report: The experience was rainy cold and awesome. Caught two nice kings, one in the 40lb range. My friends and I were in two boats so we had a rivalry going to keep us warm. Our boat was hot, theirs was not. Ha ha - had to get one last shot in. Jeremy did a great job on the oars. Thanks again. Thanks to: Rich Water: Skykomish Date: 10/26 Report: Hit the Sky near Monroe. Fished between 9am and 2pm, landed and released 11 really nice Chums. Fished with jig and float with a little piece of shrimp. A couple of them were mint bright and the rest were in great shape! Practice C&R
Thanks to: Dan G. Water: Satsop Date: 10/20-21 Report: the fishing was alright Saturday, with low waters and not many fish, the day seemed to drag on and on. I landed one pretty dark chum 12lbs. Then on Sunday night the area received some rain, and helped move some more fish up the river, not many though. Within 2 hrs I caught 1 13lb coho (beautiful spawning colors), and another chum that weighed in at 19.7lbs, it put up a pretty good fight. I think that the fishing will pick up next weekend because rain is in the forecast, so get out there!!! Thanks to: Travis Water: East Wishkah Date: 10/20 Report: Good fishing here, we spent a couple hours out there and caught some small Halibut and had some Herring. No one caught any Salmon today. I am new to the area so was not sure what kinds of fish are up here. Was pleasantly surprised. Thanks to: KRIZ Water: Cowlitz Date: 10/16 Report: LOTS of dark spawned out kings at the barrier dam. you cant get thru em to the silvers. saw a lot of kings on and had 2 bumps myself. water is in good shape. Thanks to: Dam Mcafterty Water: Mouth Toutle / Cowlitz Date: 10/6 Report: My dad and I got there at about 2:00 lots of people. Lots of dark silvers not worth keeping, saw about 8 fish caught the hole time we where there which was until dark. There are some decent kings still but not very many. About dusk dad hooked in to a 18 lbs buck king and landed it, he was in good shape. I got a couple hits all day but that was it. After the rain we have today the dark fish will probably move up to the mouth of the green and fresh will come into the mouth of the Toutle or just head straight up hard to say. Thanks to: LDR Water: Puget Sound Date: 9/04 TO 10/03 Report: Fresh slivers now in 8-2 and area 9. They came late, and the big bucks are coming. Skunkless in September, and I've been out Monday / Sunday all month, limit every day. Big hook noise. 18lbs is my big one, I've seen 20+ ! STAY BARBLESS! SEE YA IN THE RIVER SOON! Thanks to: Brad Hay Water: Vedder, British Columbia Date: 10/1 Report: Fished all day and hooked and released 10 big coho, hooked 4 big white springs and landed 1 at 38 pounds chrome as can be. Great fishing but we need more rain as the river is dead low Thanks to: Fish Boy Water: Sky Date: 9/30 Report: Fishing was great had about 15 pinks on and landed 10 or so. drifted green corky green yarn. Yesterday my buddy landed a 13 pound hatchery steelhead, one coho of about 8 and one about 10. Fishing was good get out there and try it. Thanks to: Dan G. Water: Nisqually Date: 9/23 Report: Well the fishing on the Nisqually has been pretty hot from the bridge and below. Today I got one nice BRIGHT 15lb king and one small humpy. Saw only about 7 fish landed in 5 hrs. of fishing (today), but previous days have been lots better. I think that the river closes next week for 2 weeks so get out there when you can, good luck!!! Thanks to: Fishkiller Water: Chehalis Date: 9/22 Report:
Fished down from Montesano, started at daylight, fished till 10:30, got a 25
pounder, but didn't see anybody else even hook a fish. Lots of boats. How
has fishing been, anybody catching anything, how about Johns river? Thanks to: Darin Water: Possession Bar Date: 9/16 Report: AWESOME!!! Big hook-nosed silvers to 13lbs. Caught on Red flasher and white squid at 50ft. Also hooked sea lion. Lots of them out there also. Thanks to: Woody Water: Columbia / Cowlitz Date: 9/4 Report: Hot! Chinooks 18lb-32lbs. Coho 12-14lbs.Jacks and some Steelies. I caught a 14lb Coho. My partner caught a 12lb Chinook and a 25lb Chinook. The third guy in the boat caught a Chinook Jack. We fished inside of Cottonwood Island, but the report at the boat launch was for hot fishing everywhere to the Rainier Bridge. I must have seen 35 fish boated in 8hrs. Thanks to: John Heib Water: Edmonds ... Area 9 Date: 9/2 Report: We fished out in front of the ferry dock in about 600 feet of water and limited on hooknose silvers by 7:30 am. Smallest silver was 8lb and the biggest was 12.5lbs. Thanks to: Alex Water: Sky Date: 9/1 Report: Great fishing! No steelhead, but lots of salmon. Fished with eggs, landed 5 kings: 30, 28, 24, 22, and 20 lbs; one coho, about 9 lbs; and a few humpies and jacks. Thanks to: Ben Water: Rogue Date: Late August Report: We hiked in 2 miles. We got there in an hour. Then we fished a little; I had one on, but it got off. It was starting to get dark, so we went to bed. The next morning, we woke up at about four thirty in the morning then started to fish. I had about 5 on but lost them. But the next one I hooked I brought in, it took me about 1 hour. It was 40lbs. Then a guy that was fishing next to us hooked into one and my dad helped him land it about 3/4 of a mile downstream. Then I hooked into another one and brought it in, it was 31 pounds. Thanks to: Nuuese Punimata Water: Nisqually Date: 8/9 Report: There are not many kings in the river yet, but there a 20 and 15 pounder taken yesterday. Try a single egg, jacks have been hitting on that. I caught one 1 foot long jack with a single egg. Good Luck Thanks to: Tad Dodge Water: Sol Duc Date: 8/4-5 Report: Silvers were in the lower river. On Saturday there was a good number where we fished. On Sunday it seemed some had moved up, but there were some left. It was a typical early morning thing. Our party of 3 caught 2. We figured we did alright for tourists. At least one local did a lot better on both days. Fished Vibrax spinners, no. 4 and no. 3. Mostly they were caught on green or orange. One party at our campground caught 2 silvers out of the Quillayute on the high tide during mid-day on Saturday. Thanks to: Scott Water: Cowlitz Date: 8/4-5 Report: We got there Saturday evening and heard there were three nice steelhead taken that afternoon. We glow-balled all night and saw fish rolling and heard them jumping throughout the night another guy left that night with a nice 8-10 pounder. We did hook into a few but didn't get the pleasure of putting them on the shore. All we landed were three 10-14 inch trout; they are back in the river waiting to grow up. We left the river around 8am on Sunday and a couple kids with bicycles (really, at Blue Creek) left with a couple nice steelhead around 7am. There were a couple dozen guys on the river that morning with about 5 sleds and a driftboat. A guy plowed the gravel bar on the other side of the river with his sled about a 1/2 hour before light. He totally damaged his boat and plugged his intake to the point of the boat smoking downriver with no power at all. The water is low and they didn't have a good light on the boat. All in all, it was a great night of fishing with wonderful weather and moonlight. Thanks to: Bob D. Water: Tacoma Area Date: 8/3-5 Report: The fishing has been really decent!!! We got one and lost two on Friday. Sat we got one 25 and another about 20 and Sun was really good for us, we boated 3 and lost one by 8:15AM. Fishing the river mouth. Trolling shallow and slow with good bait! Thanks to: Lewie Water: Sky Date: 8/3 Report: My son landed a 15lb STEELHEAD on a peach corky and shrimp with red yarn. I myself got a 17lb steely but lost it on eggs and a bobber. Thanks to: Lewie Water: Sky Date: 7/31 Report: Had at least a 16lb steelhead on and lost it I said #*&^. Hooked on yellow yarn and eggs. Thanks to: Bob (another one!) Water: Lower Kenai Date: Last week of July Report: The Red fishing was the best I have seen in 5 years. Kings were fair some days better than others. Trying to go back in mid to late September for Silvers. Can anyone let me know how the fishing is late September for Silvers. Thanks to: Jigman Water: Sky Date: July 17-19 Report: Fished 3 days, hooked 10 Steelhead and landed 8 to 12 pounds. All fish on classic marabou jigs. Thanks to: Cigar Man Water: Snoqualmie Date: July 11 Report: We floated from Fall City to Richter, saw no fish--caught no fish. My friend floated Richter to the Tolt catching one hatchery steelhead and spotting four springers. Locals advise wait until August or Sept. for the Raging river Steelies. Thanks to: Cigar Man Water: Snoqualmie Date: July 8 Report:
The river was dialed from Fall Thanks to: Rain Drop Water: Upper Hoh Date: July 5 Report: Water was really milky, but the fish are there. Thanks to: Cigar Man Water: Lake Washington Date: July 1 Report: Fished north end off Kirkland, caught one big rainbow and six cutts. Fish are all hanging out at 70 to 75 feet Thanks to: Rock Magnet Water: Klickitat Date: June 16 Report: Is the river fishable, floatable, and are there fish? I'd hate to make a 300+ mile trip to see the river glacier grey now that the weathers warming up. Thanks to: Jim Leons Water: Sol Duc - Bogachiel Date: Past Week Report:
The big boys are starting to make their way into the Sol Duc, boated two
over 35 the last couple days heard of another guide boat with one over 40.
If you're not into the salmon game head to the Bogy and spend most of
your time around the forks and the first few holes seems to be the most
productive for the summer run hatchery fish. Thanks to: Reed Armstrong Water: Snoqualmie Date: 6-15 Report: Slow. Saw (1) fish hooked & landed at the Falls Pool in 8 hours. Thanks to: Ltl Cleo Water: Hoh / Hood Canal Date: 6/14 Report: Spent last weekend on the Hoh, drifting, only a couple of dollys. Came home to the hood and found some beautiful summer fish. They are still here guys, just takes some work to find and catch. Good luck! Thanks to: Eric Carr Water: Klickitat Date: 6/9 Report: We did a drift trip with Dan Little, excellent guide, I've done plenty guide trips and he's #1 on my west coast trips, we caught and released 3 wild steelies as well we released 3 hatchery steelies plus 4 rainbows, I can't wait for a return trip to Washington....fish-on!!!!! Thanks to: Scott Water: Green Date: 6/9 Report: My buddy and I fished the upper river with no steelhead. All we go was Four small trout. It is not worth the time yet, maybe in month or so. Thanks to: Peter Water: Wind Date: 6/7 Report: the fishing sucks don't even waste your time !!!!!! Thanks to: Ron Bob Water: Sky Date: 6/7 Report: Fished from the high bridge to Sultan 2 nates and a 7lb chromer hen. Saw one other fish caught. The water's gin clear, could be part of the problem. Thanks to: Jim Leons Water: Hoh / Bogachiel / Sol Duc Date: Last week Report: The Hoh has been fishing fair and is only going to get better as the month goes on. The Solduc has been up and down hot one day slow the next. Fished the Bogie on the opener caught a couple summer runs and some late winter runs . Thanks to: Wondering Water: Anywhere Date: 6/5 Report: Come on you guys give it up :) Thanks to: Dan the Man Water: Clackamas, OR Date: 6/1 Report: Awesome, steelhead and chinook are stacked like cordwood in front of the faraday powerhouse. The area at McIver park in the big hole below the mouth of dog creek is so full of fish it's silly! Thanks to: Crayfin Water: Wind Date: 5/14-15 Report: The fish are up in the river Fellas! Get there now!! Thanks to: Kalama River Bait & Tackle Water: Kalama Date: 5/11 Report: The fishing on the Kalama has been good all week for springers and moderate for the summer runs. I took a gentleman and his son who came into the store and were new to the area out and we all caught springers on glow balls in the dark if you can believe it! They are definitely biting better at night but the words getting out so the good holes are getting crowded. I hope the pressure will let up during the week. Any questions or river info: (360) 673-7466 Thanks to: Fat Chrome Water: Wind River Mouth/ Columbia Date: 4/22 Report:
Trolled the Mag Wart in all the " HOT" colors I fished last year
that produced. No take-downs! Switched to some nice cured herring on a
dropper, "nothing". Wasn't my day. 2 rods out. Saw 6-8 fish taken
and 15 fish at ramp. Pretty slow although there was a bite on, along
the buoys. Native Americans just tunin' em up with sport gear in
mid-channel. I think fish are just blowin' through to The Dalles. Thanks to: Kalama River Bait & Tackle Water: Kalama Date: 4/19-23 Report: Fishing has really picked up this week. I have several pictures of Springers in the 10-30lb class and steelies in the 8-16lb. Of those pics, 6 are mine! Shrimp and eggs are the bait of choice and spinners are also working well. If you need more info you can call me at (360)673-7466 and ask for Bill. Thanks to: Jeff Water: Calawah Date: 4/18 Report: Drifted the Calawah with Jim Leons, fishing was good all fish were fresh chromers 10 to 17 pounds. He was drifting, I was float fishing we each hooked and landed three nice fish. Jim knows this river I highly recommend Jim Leons to take you down this river, I had a great time and the water is turbulent and raging as you all know. I'm glad I went that 17 pound hen just ripped ass!!! Thanks to: RiverWalker Water: Columbia Date: 4/10-11 Report: 4/10 2 guys 5 hookups 3 landed all keepers. 4/11 3 guys 8 hookups 2 keepers 5 natives and one ? One was close to thirty caught on 15# test. Go get them before they close it. Thanks to: Noel Johnson Water: Columbia Date: 4/9 Report: According to the Longview Daily News, "Ridgefield fishing guide Bruce Gipple's two clients, on Friday, hooked 13 spring chinook and landed seven." This took place near Beacon Rock east of Portland on the Columbia. Thanks to: Riverwalker Water: Columbia Date: 4/8 Report: Threw spinners from the bank, had four hookups, saw numerous fish caught. It sure is nice to see a big run in the Columbia. Thanks to: Woodee Water: Wind Date: 4/6 Report:
Has anyone been down to the wind for springers since 4-6 ? waiting to hear
the word when they are stacking up. Below the Bonne is thick if you want to
fish the bank 40kfish heading to the wind. 380k estimated total run this
year. Thanks to: Steeeelhdr Water: Columbia Date: 4/3 -7 Report: Springers are in. We fished out going tide. We tied up to a line of pilings. We fished #14, #15 kwikfish sardine wraps. Incoming tides we trolled blue herring with 5 ft leaders and ran a 22" 2oz dropper on a slide. Fishing was great! Thanks to: Tanman Water: Forks Rivers Date: 3/22-24 Report:
The planets were aligned for all of us. Thanks to: Fishn Fool Water: Somewhere with Bob Date: 3/22 Report: Thanks again to a patient and knowledgeable guide even the rookies could catch some fresh chromers. Double digit hookups and landed five 8-12 lb'ers. Even got a frisky late hatchery hen who surprised everyone with her active antics on a "slow" day. Hats off to Piscatorial Pursuits for patience and home river know-how to put us in front of some great fishing! How come it never rains on the OP and it still has all that moss? Thanks to: Fishaday Water: Forks Area River Date: 3/17-18 Report: Seven hookups on Saturday, four to the boat. All the fish caught on winged drift bobbers and sandshrimp. Three hookups on Sunday b-4 the rivers went out, two to the boat one was 21# the other was a 27# monster, same gear setup. Thanks to: RiverWalker Water: Peninsula River Date: 3/17 Report: woke up expecting rain, ended up being a pretty decent day. Between my girlfriend and I, we hooked 6 steelhead from 8 to 17 pounds landed four and also caught a nice dolly. They're out there you just have to work for them. C&R Thanks to: Can't believe my eyes Water: 'Duc Date: 3/16 Report: To all the fisherman I've been fishing the west end rivers for 20 plus years. Always hearing about the nets and how many fish they get. But it never really hit home until this week. I've been working in downtown La Push all week right on the water. I couldn't believe what I seen hundreds of steelhead this week this is no stretch of the truth. Giant bins of steelhead all week NATIVES may I add . All for a dollar a pound. 4 an half bins full Wednesday heck of a run . And how many were caught by us not many I'm sure. But I did manage to catch a nice 10lb. buck at Leyenedecker's on the way home and seeing that this fish most be very intelligent seeing he made it through at least 6 nets put in a maze, I released him back to the water. My point of all of this is Approx. 2000 lbs steelhead this week went up the 'Yute. And maybe a handful made it. This makes me sick to my stomach. So please keep practicing catch and release its are only hope for future returns. Bob keep up the good work! on the web your word of catch and release practicing spreads far. Good luck gentleman we're all going to need it. Thanks to: Hig Water: Nooksak Date: 3/15 Report: Unfortunately I couldn't get out, had to work, but brother-in-laws dad got out and caught 3 fish 15lb. 16lb. and 19lb. Of course these are estimated weights but being a former cash buyer he is pretty good at estimating the weight of fish. The catch is always a rush but not as much as watching them swim away!!! Thanks to: FishingFool Water: Hoko Date: 3/11 Report: Fishing was tough, I fished the HOKO on the 11th and it took all day to find a fish. I finally was able to entice a small hen approx #5 but just gorgeous, she responded to a tiny piece of shrimp tail with a strand of yarn. Thanks to: Fishguts Water: Area 9 Date: 3/11 Report: Fished area 9 from Four Mile Rock to Meadow Point. Caught 2 shakers in 5 hours. Dragged 4" green and blue spatter backs as close to the bottom as we dared. The Cabin is usually closed so I get depth hacks like "it's 180, and the next is ok it's 90 now" Of course by that time we are cranking furiously to keep from dragging our balls around. Thanks to: Dan Harvey Water: Little River, GSMNP, Tenn. Date: 2/27 Report: Excellent! And here is why! Because 90% of those of us that fish
Little River practice Catch & Release. Whether it is individuals or
guided clients, you rarely see anyone that keeps a fish. (Occasionally, a
person will keep enough to eat. This is usually someone who needs the fish
to supplement their family's food resources.) So where the heck is Little
River? It is in the Great Smoky Mountains, Tennessee. It is one of the top
rated trout streams in the nation and is barely as wide as the Sol Duc and
probably carries 1/3 the volume of water. It is fished by hundreds of
fishers a week due to it's location in the "most visited National Park
in the East." There is one more thing you should know. The Catch &
Release policy on Little River is voluntary. Thanks to: High School Fisherman Water: Forks Area Rivers Date: 2/24 Report: Dad and I set out early Saturday morning to do some bank fishing to avoid the boat rush. We ended up hitting two fish and I beached a beautiful big native hen which was 39+ inches long. We estimated that she tipped the scales at about 20 pounds. She put up a great 15 minute fight on my 8lb mainline and leader. I didn't have the heart to thump such a pretty fish and prevent her from providing us with future generations of steelies so I unpinned her. It was a great sunny day and we avoided seeing any other fisherman on the water. Thanks to: Disappointed Water: Hoh, Queets Date: 2/23-24 Report: 3 days on the Hoh and one on the Queets yielded a single fish. We tried it all! Heck, we even tried out-hardcoring the locals by getting on the river at 0'dark thirty-all to no avail. The place is beeeautiful but man, do you guys need some rain over there! Thanks to: I am hooked Water: Sol Duc Date: 2/23 Report: Fished Sol Duc Friday with Don Kinsey. The wife had 4 fish to the boat in 2 hrs. All in the teens. Only fish I got was a nice buck pushing twenty. ( I have pictures). What a great day ! Thanks to: FishingFool Water: HOKO/PHYST Date: 2/23-24 Report: The rivers again were quite low and clear. Scaled down to #8 main, #6 leader, I was able to get a nice wild hen, about #9lbs, lost another on the PHYST the next day. I have a big problem with the attitude and lack of respect for the wild fish on the Hoko, I was told by a local about 13 nates that were caught on the Hoko. The story is that all fish were kept after a quick fillet job on the river. I found proof of this on the banks the next day. a couple of huge carcasses revealed that not only had someone done a poor hack job on some wild fish but it looked as though a few were quite large and carried the ever so needed genes of this run. So here's the deal you guys watch who you brag about your manly conquest to kill wild fish, cause if I see you practice this behavior in my presence I will kindly take it upon myself to teach you a lesson of respect for one of gods gift to all of us. HOW DARE YOU. I was told that these two guys are locals to this area, I am offering to buy a trip for two on Bob's boat, for anyone who can help me locate these gentlemen. Contact me on the forum on this web site FISHINGFOOL is my name I will check it daily. THANK YOU! RESPONSE FROM LAZYDRIFTER: I am not
saying that I agree with the killing of native fish but the last time I
looked the Hoko had no wild fish restrictions. Not putting Bob down because
I know that he is believes in c/r. But what is the difference whether these
2 people keeping 13 natives or Joe Blow letting his clients keep 13 native
fish in a one week period? NOTE FROM BOB: Big difference - ethically, I don't like either one, but one is legal, the other isn't! Thanks to: Bobo Water: Fork's Rivers Date: 2/12-23 Report: Tenth annual trip to Forks. Bank fished on Thursday morning, terribly low conditions. Moved to another stream after noon and spotted a huge pair of steelies under a deep pool. After several minutes of freaking out, back lashes and tree snags, I was able to present a purple Aerofly that was smashed by 40'long, 22' deep buck!!. Fight of a lifetime, on ten lb. test too. Attempted a photo or two and then he was on his way. My buddy also caught his first steelhead ever on the Sol Duc on Friday. Thanks to: Woodee Water: Sky Date: 2/19 Report: Nice blackmouth in the bay, 3 days 16 fish on . A nice keeper for all 3 of us all 3 days thanks to the hoochie god . Boy these white meat hatchery fish are good . Smallest was 14lb one at 17+ give us rain , it's bouncy out here! Thanks to: El Parquito Water: Sky Date: 2/19 Report:
Saukit2em, Brian, and Parker fished from Sultan down to the Lewis St.
takeout. Parker and Saukit2em had had a good previous weekend, while
Brian was on a 0-6 losing streak. The day was sunny and beautiful,
while the river was painfully low and clear. Would this be enough to
get rid of Brian's Bad JuJu? Thanks to: J-Dog & M.O. Water: Elwah Date: 2/19 Report: Started at clay bank and worked our way up. Second cast found a small buck spawner about 4#. Saw two more fish, a 10# brat, and a pig pushing 20# the latter of which never made it to shore. Three fish in three hours! Not bad for this year. Thanks to: RiverWalker Water: Peninsula River Date: 2/17-18 Report: Hooked 12 fish in 2 days of trekking, ranging from 8# to 18#. Saw eagles, otters, and elk, what more could a fisherperson ask for? Thanks to: Mark Water: Queets / Quinault Date: 2/17 Report: Flogged the Queets for 6 hrs, lost one, saw 2 others caught, water actually pretty good a day before the nets went in. Beat it over to the Quinalt, it had a few downriver fish, caught/released a 15 lb buck. Beautiful day, so-so fishing, expensive boat ride. Thanks to: SteelHead Master Water: Sky Date: 2/17 Report: Great day. Hooked 87, landed 79. All fish were pushing 50lbs.....and then I woke up! Thanks to: BJAfishinforlife Water: Nooksak Date: 2/16 Report: the fishing was pretty slow. We heard of a few caught. Not many though! The fishing is not as good as it used to be in past years. Thanks to: Aerofly Water: Puget sound/ Elliot Bay Date: 2/12-15 Report: For those who can not make it to the river every day the Blackmouth fishing has been pretty good off all the local piers in Seattle. Seacrest, 86. Thanks to: FishingFool Water: Wynoochie Date: 2/12-13 Report: The Hoko was the only decent chance at finding any fish, due to low/clear conditions as unusual did some bushwhacking to find a few deep pools, and any likely holding water. SCORE...I smacked a chrome 13# hen, 10# buck chrome also. I lost an unknown missile that just kicked my 8lb main/6lbleaders' ass .I don't know if any other fish were caught as i saw no other anglers. both fish were wild and I BONKED my knee while releasing them back to their rightful place. 2/13 I fished hard as heck and drew a blank .. all fish took a #1 gamu with straight eggs. Thanks to: Irshiman Water: Wynoochie Date: 2/9-10 Report: Two of us spooned the Duc on Friday and Saturday. Hit 2 in the upper end Friday and that was it. Pretty spotty for this time of year. Thanks to: Al Water: Wynoochie Date: 2/10 Report: Wynoochie....why bother? Thanks to: Nick Petosa Water: Sauk Date: 2/10 Report: Bad, no fish yet and probably not many till after the closure, but water was good looking, of course there was no fish. Thanks to: CigarMan Water: Snoqualmie Date: 2/10 Report:
We floated Fall City down. Fish hooked, Thanks to: SpoonMan Water: Clearwater, Queets Date: 2/7-8 Report: Oh baby, was the fishing good up there, landed 6 fish on the Clearwater, Monday, and 9 fish on Tuesday. Those fish sure do like eggs. but was surprised to see no body fishing it. used nothing but small gear and a lot of wading was dun. Tip up Bob. Thanks to: Don Water: Wynoochie Date: 2/4 Report: Fished upper Wynoochie Sunday. Water was a little high but good color. Heavy boat traffic for upper stretch. Saw only one fished hooked and lost out of a dozen boats. Didn't here of anything else. Where are all the fish, it should be peaking now. Good fishin! Thanks to: Travis Milward Water: Cowlitz Date: 2/4 Report:
We fished the Cow yesterday and surprisingly it was on fire. We hit three
fish by the first hour one nice 18lb buck. The rest of the drift down the
river was great (pulling plugs) we had on 9 more fish and landed six. Hope
everyone was as successful as us! Thanks to: Craig Water: Snoqualmie Date: 2/3 Report: Fished the Sno on Saturday and with little pressure. After an hour I hooked a fish and a fellow fisherman that had been fishing a good 100 yards up river from me, drops his rod and made a b-line for me and my fish. The spot I was standing had 2 feet of bank to land this fish on, and this guy is standing only 3 feet from me! Talk about crowding someone! I tried landing it once and he was right in my way. I had to give him an ear full! I myself have many times watched people, but from a distance. Some people need to mind their manners. The fished was a chrome 14# hen. This was the only fish I seen or heard of all day. Thanks to: Peter Water: Washougal Date: 2/2 Report: The fishing on the river to day was very slow I think that are still a couple of fish in the water, but boy is it spotty. I heard of only one being caught right off Hathaway park an old summer fish and that all I got for now:: fishinbeast P.S. is there any report on the Sol Duc and the Boggy???? Note from Bob - see above, most every day :) Thanks to: Peter Water: Washougal Date: 2/1 Report: I fished the Washougal yesterday and it was very slow ad the water was low and clear . Talked to a drift boat, he said he got 2 ,1 old summer and 1 native he released them both . I never touched a fish I was trying my now noodle rod out so I was getting used to that . Well, that's all for now ::: fishinbeast Thanks to: Isherfa Water: Sky Date: 1/28 Report: Fished the cable hole down to High Bridge. Caught one 12lb hatchery at old man hole, broke one off ... The water was low. Someone pulled two out of cable hole later that day. Thanks to: B Bryant Water: Bogey Date: 1/28 Report: Fished from Ponds to Wilson access. water very low and clear. no action!!! Heard of only 1 fish out of 8 fishers. Thanks to: Aerofly Water: Snoqualmie / Sky Date: 1/27 Report:
Slow on the Sno, Fished from Boat lunch to Neal road. Not too many people
either. Sky was slow too but saw some fish. Thanks to: Fishweiser Water: Skagit / Stilly Date: 1/22, 26 Report: fished lower Skagit good cutt-dolly action and a 9lb. hatchery buck on a worm. Fished middle N.F. Friday lost 1 caught 1 12lb. Nate hen hope she makes some babies for us. see ya on the river.... Thanks to: Butch Water: Wynoochie Date: 1/21 Report:
Water wasn't too bad. Saw 10 to 12 other Thanks to: Scott Water: Vedder Date: 1/20 Report: Of course, the weekend was crowded, but we did the battle. Fished from the park down to town. Fished almost all the water. We saw 3 fish, two were natives, and released. It was real slow. It need rain BAD!! Will be at the Quinault on Fri. Will send report that night Thanks to: J-Dog & Sy-Guy Water: Hoko - Sekiu Date: 1/20 Report: Started at the hatchery on the Hoko and worked our way down for a couple of miles. Fished the Sekiu from the first log jam up a couple of miles. Prawns and # 10 corkies, cheaters, and even some metal tossed there way wasn't enough to entice even one of the dark brats to give it a kiss. Heard of two dark hatcheries caught! Kind of disappointing. Keep fishin. Thanks to: DBSteelie Water: Vedder - BC Date: 1/17 Report:
After coming back from the Peninsula the Thanks to: Dan S. Water: Wherever Bob is ... (Note from Bob: Mongolie Grill, Whistler, BC) Date: 1/17 Report:
My god, Bob, you really are The REALLY Big One.....big eater that is!
By my calculations, you consumed just under 7 lbs.......that's a serious
gut-bomb! Thanks to: Shawn Ritzman Water: Willapa Date: 1/15 Report: Water is low and clear. Caught one 10Ib native and let it go and two spawners. Didn't see any other fisherman. Thanks to: B Bryant Water: Bogie Date: 1/14 Report: one hatchery fish, about 6 lbs. of the dozen people I talked to on the way down from the hatchery, only two had any luck. over all pretty slow. Thanks to: Fishingfool Water: Hoko, Physt Date: 1/13-14 Report: Both of these rivers were low and mostly clear, I worked the Hoko from the bridge down to the boat launch, and had no luck and saw no fish. I stopped at a hole right off the freeway, on the Physt I was pitching a #3 vibrax, chrome color. On the first cast I saw a flash from behind my lure, a few casts later all hell broke loose. This was my first steelie on a spinner, WOW. I landed a #12 chrome hen, took a photo and let it be wild again, and set her on her way. What a rush. Thanks to: Tad Dodge Water: Kalama Date: 1/13 Report: We fished the upper part of the canyon, down from the dead line. Water was extremely low and very clear. It rained all morning and it even snowed. Almost like winter steelheading. An encouraging thing was that the silvers are almost gone. Another encouraging thing was we saw a good number of steelhead moving. We caught one summer hen of about 10 pounds. It was a hatchery fish. When we landed it, we found it had two hooks trailing leaders hanging out of her jaw and another set-up hanging from her tail. We freed her from all the gear and, figuring that she was a warrior, I released her. She was, by the way, ripe, her eggs were loose. Heard other reports of seeing more fish and catching a few more. Too bad it didn't just keep raining. It had slacked off by 1 p.m., when we left, and there was no apparent rise in the river or decrease in clarity. Thanks to: Scott Water: Sky Date: 1/10-11 Report: Fished the Cable down to the High Green bridge. The 10th: no fish, due to sun. The second day: fished two hours and released one 15lb. native and lost one brat, of 12lbs. Thanks to: Ken Flatt Water: Cowlitz Date: 1/11 Report: fished at Barrier Dam, there 15 minutes landed a great big native, let it go naturally. Rest of day very slow, lots of fish rising. Good luck! Thanks to: Joey & Matt Water: Hoh Date: 1/10 Report: Thought we had it all figured out: five dry days after a big January flood, no wind and partly cloudy, clear water above Muddy Creek and even better than average clarity below...a fly fishers dream ... damn. We hooked one fish in the park in the first ten minutes and not another tap all the way down to the end of the drift. Thanks to: Godfather Water: NF Stilly Date: 1/9 Report: Surprisingly good, C & R'd one 8lb native, saw 9 other fish banked with at least that many on for 10 guys fishin. Water is low and clearing, about 4 ft vis today. Fish On:) Thanks to: Dave Water: Sky Date: 1/6 Report: Floated from High Bridge to Sultan. Only one other boat on that section of river, we didn't touch a thing all day. The other boat said they lost one. Piss poor for this time of year and the river was in pretty good shape considering all the rain that we had. Heard of a few fish being taken around the hatchery. Thanks to: B Bryant Water: Bogie Date: 1/4 Report: Put in at Rearing Ponds and saw our first fish of the day caught by a bank dude. Saw a lot of fish rolling and a few caught by other boats. only touched 1 fish but could not get it to the net. The rain was something else, 3 inches in a very short time. Thanks to: Craig Water: Stilly / Sauk Date: 1/3 Report: Fished the upper Sauk and Stilly. Sauk looked dead. Saw no boats, no fisherman at all, and no fish. Stilly was still low, but at least 3 to 4 people per hole. Fish in the Stilly are getting hammered. A few fish around at Fortson but they are hiding out and not biting. Need rain. Thanks to: FishingFool Water: Hoko, Clallam, Pysht Date: 1/2-3 Report: Rivers were running a bit low. Hoko was the best bet both days, I fished all day for two straight days and not even a fish on. first time this year that I got slammed by the BIG, BIG, SKUNK..... Thanks to: Scott Water: Sky Date: 12/30-31 Report: slow, fished about 4 hrs. Sat. and lucked into a chrome 9-10 lbs. hen, the only fish I saw or heard of. Sun. fished a couple hours and saw 1 caught. both days there were approx. 30 guys fishing, pretty slow. Thanks to: Aqueous Pete Water: Salmon River, Queets Valley Date: 12/30 Report: Fishing was fairly slow. Fished corky and eggs. Hit a bunch of steely jacks. Buddy broke his rod, kept fishing with butt, hooked (and lost) our only fish of the day, easily a double fig fish!!! What a sight to see. Saw one other on the bank. Water was low, need rain. Heard Quinault fishing is hot Thanks to: Wildoutdoorsman Water: Chehalis Date: 12/30 Report: The Iron heads are here water low punched hole in boat but fished any way big ones about 18 lb native had to release kept 9 lb hatchery dink its raining so the fish should keep coming be careful below the 'Scook until river comes up. Thanks to: Jeff Wright Water: Elochoman Date: 12/30 Report: Fishing was good, my fishing partner caught 2 winters on eggs. Most of the fish are being caught with jigs, one guy I talked to hooked 5 and landed 0. Water still to low for prime fishing, last Monday and Tuesday were excellent but then the rain stopped and the river dropped a foot in one day. Thanks to: Bob (not THAT Bob :) Water: Wynoochie Date: 12/30 Report: Put in at white bridge and pulled at the gravel bar. Water was a tad hi at 1200 cfs color was good at about 4ft. There were 15 or more boats on the same drift. Talked to a lot of people and only know of 2 fish got, on the small side 6lbs. Drift fished with sand shrimp and eggs. A lot of people plugging. Me or my partner never had a bump. I think I will sit on the 'nooch till 2nd week of Feb it will be better than. Tight lines. Thanks to: Thor Water: Bogey / Hoh Date: 12/29 Report: Fished Tall Timbers on Bogy but, not much happening (too low). One 10 lb chromer on the lower Hoh the following day. Thanks to: Fat Chrome Water: Kalama Date: 12/29 Report: Drifted from red barn down to Mahaffey's. Had two take-downs, landed one dark silver. The second fish I waited for the full committal on the take down, pulled back on the oars, gone! My partner had his drag cranked. what's up with that? The trailing hook was gone. Niiiiice! Saw a fresh fish moving up. River is clear. Thanks to: El Parquito Water: Snoqualmie Date: 12/29 Report: Fished with DriftBoat and Saukit2em. Went 2 for 4. Saw two others caught and saw two being cleaned at the take out. Not too encouraging, seeing how this should be the peak of the run. Thanks to: Fishkisser99 Water: NF Stilly Date: 12/29 Report: Shrimp under a bobber worked over rocks produced two fish of 6# and 7# this morning--after I'd lost two among the structure. Not often a guy limits before 9:00 AM anymore. Thanks to: Craig Water: Skykomish Date: 12/28 Report: Fished the Sky from the RV park and below Lewis St. bridge. Was passed by 2 dozen boats. Saw no fish taken. Had no hits. Cold and slow (very). Need more rain. Thanks to: Naggy Water: Cowlitz Date: 12/28 Report: Sorry bud got 1 today, 17.4!! Fishin was good today! Hope tomorrow works out the same! Thanks to: Fishboy Water: Bogachiel Date: 12/28 Report: Beautiful. The catching was lousy. Many fishers. Confirmed 2 fish caught by other boaters. Saw no fish on bank, despite lots of pressure. Thanks to: Tom Water: Bogachiel Date: 12/18 & 12/28 Report: The 18th was a great day! Even Bob was on the Bogie this day. We landed 3 by 10:30am and hit the last one before noon! Off the river by 1:00. Yesterday just a little different. The river is low and crowded! We lost 2 and landed one. For the number of anglers out there was not many fish taken. Thanks to: Dave Water: NF Stilly / Sky Date: 12/23-26 Report: Two trips to the N.F Stilly 3 fish on 2 landed. One trip to Sky 2 fish. I've had the hot hand lately. My biggest fish this year is 16lbs 3 and a half oz. I caught it on the Cowlitz. First place in the derby for three weeks now. it might hold up. Derby ends Jan.24th. FISH ON !! Thanks to: Fish-On John Water: Snoqualmie Date: 12/26 Report: Three of us fished from Plum to Fall City take out. Caught two at the launch, saw two more boated, and saw one more released. All were dark summer runs. Thanks to: Jus2Fish Water: NF Stilly Date: 12/23-24 Report:
Had on a large steely on the Hoh for 15-20min. lost him in the brush! Had
him on a green butt skunk fly fished on sink tip. One smaller steely on
the Bog xmas eve morning on a purple peril, Both on flies tied by my
brother (thanks Rich) Shook the hook on second jump. Only fish I saw with
about a dozen fisherman just below the ponds. Thanks to: Fishkiller Water: Sky Date: 12/23 Report: Fished Startup at the mouth of the Wallace River the water was low and clear, fished hard tell about 1:30 never had a bump. need rain and more water. Thanks to: Pat Water: Bogi Date: 12/23 Report: I hooked a hatchery fish minutes after we got on the river. Looked to be 8lbs. ... as she leaped near the front of the boat spitting the bait I can only assume she wasn't finished Christmas shopping yet! Lots of fish rolling but no takers. Water was on the rise fish were on the move due to much rain the day before. Two fish in another boat at the end of the float. Thanks to: Mike Water: Peninsula River Date: 12/23 Report: Had the best trip of my steelheadin' career! Took my wife and brother on their first winter steelhead trip. Hit the river at sun-up, landed two by 9am, 6 lb & 12 lbs. Lost another one before my brother landed a 4 lb late summer-run. Fishing slowed late in the morning, until a little after noon when my wife hooked a slab! She landed her first steelhead -- a chrome-bright 16.4 lb hen! And...she was using 8 lb line! What a fight -- it was taildancin' like crazy, heading up and downstream. After a good 15 minute battle, she landed it -- the biggest of the day! Totals for the day were, 9 hooked, 5 landed. All on bobber & jigs. What a Christmas present! Good luck everyone. Thanks to: Jason Doig Water: Bogey Date: 12/22 Report: Put in at the hatchery, water was a nice color. Two good bumps in the first hole. Finally picked up an 8# hen about 2:00 p.m. Fished #14 corky and sand shrimp all day. Saw only 5 fish landed and quite a few boats on the water. Thanks to: Laws Water: Hoh Date: 12/20 Report: Late in posting but frustrating info ... Fished from Oxbow to Nolan Creek. Not 1 bump. Counted at least 30 nets. Netter was pulling out the same time we were. He was all smiles with 140 steelhead. We both saw it and went away with our tails between our legs. I'm sorry, but when we spend the time and money to go fishing, 1 bump would be nice. Thanks to: Tom Mahoney Water: Stillaguamish Date: 12/20 Report: Caught a 9 1/2 lb steelhead and few small ones, average 3lbs. We were using salmon eggs and sand shrimp. The fishing was outstanding, never had a day that good early in the season. Really looking forward to the later months when the native steelies come running up our river. Thanks to: Ron Bob Water: Snoqualmie Date: 12/19 Report: Went from Plums to Richters, about four boats along with us. Saw 1 summer fish caught. We worked all the good spots but no fish. The river was in perfect shape and using good bait. Where are they? Thanks to: North Water: Sky Date: 12/19 Report: Fished the Sky today below Reiter. Water was low and clear, hooked 4 and landed 1 hatchie about 9 lbs. Buddy hooked 1 and landed it,7lbs, also nice 20 inch dollie. Good day floating eggs and shrimp. Thanks to: Fishingfool Water: Hoko, Clallam Date: 12/17-18 Report: Fished the Clallam at first light on the 17th. River was a tad low, good color though. I was surprised to find all the holes occupied by some coho couples. Hooked a few while looking for some steel, decided that I should let them do their thing and left them alone. Fished the Hoko the next day and a half. Took (2)CHROME HATCHERY BABES,#6-#9, caught some coho jacks, 1 adult coho in decent shape, and a small buck summer dude. River was erection providing emerald green on the last day. Eggs, shrimp tail for all fish, great little river........ Thanks to: Godfather Water: Sky Date: 12/17 Report: About as bad as I've ever seen it, good water height, bad color and no fish from high bridge to sultan, heard of only one taken on the lower end, heard Whidbey island is doing good though, later in the week should be hoppin. G.L. Thanks to: Dave Water: Sky Date: 12/17 Report: The fishing was great the catching was really bad. Spent the morning at Reiter didn't see a single fish. Fished at Start-Up, nothing. Fished bottom of Taylor Hole same result. Talked to a few guys on the river who had seen two fish caught that morning, pretty bad. Thanks to: Glowball Water: Cowlitz Date: 12/17 Report: They dropped the water again and sounds like it could be awhile before they raise it. The lake is 60 ft. below required amount (power), anyways fishing is slow at best. Few fish caught but not like it was with higher water. 16lbs is leading the Fish Country Derby right now so the big one has yet to be caught. If you are going out to the Cowlitz I recommend you stop by the Fish Country Store and enter the derby which ends Jan 31. No cost. Good place to get tackle. Thanks to: Rusty Water: Kalama Date: 12/10 Report: When it's this low and clear they come in on the tide and hunker in lower end. My friend and I have hit 5 hatchery steelies so far (two on Sunday). Just throwing eggs. I think any tidewater location would work. Rip Lips Thanks to: Almost Local Water: Hoh Date: 12/10 Report: The best thing about Sunday besides the fishing was the people 3 boats yep that it. Just a smoking day on the water hooked and landed 7 steelies 1 jack coho and a 5lb Dolly all by 1:30 pretty good I thought 4 hatchery 3 Nates of course they went back in the drink. 2 boats ahead got 5 a piece. Good luck ......... Thanks to: Fred Water: Cowlitz Date: 12/10 Report: Drifted from Blue creek to Mission. Saw a few fish caught, but not good numbers. River was real crowded. Blue Creek drift looked like D-Day invasion fleet. Disappointed w/ our results. Needs a rain b4 we go again. Thanks to: Hampton Water: Elwah Date: 12/10 Report: People are catching them - steelhead, but the action is slowing down. Need some rain and the nets are back. Corkies, yarn, eggs, floats, jigs, etc. are all producing results. Good luck to you and me! Thanks to: Nelz Water: Hoh Date: 12/9 Report: Typical story, I took my brother in law steelheading for the first time. We put in at Oxbow, while I was getting the boat ready he made his first cast and had his first steelhead, a chromer about 6#. At first glance the rod was bent and he was reelin' as fast as he could so I really blew off that he had a fish. As he got more excited and no one was paying any attention to him it finaly jumped then I got excited. Just before we got to cottonwood he had number two on, a nice 10# nate, he even opted to release it. Thanks to: David Water: Green Date: 12/9 Report:
Fished the Green Just by the 277th bridge and just of river road. Got two
about 5 lbs each. Used float and roe bag. Thanks to: John Water: Snoqualmie Date: 12/6 Report: Drifted Fall City to Neal Rd. Missed one take down in the hole at the put-in. Missed two and boated a 10 pounder at the school house. Second fish taken by my friend at the Guard Rail, it was 6 pounds. Plugs used: Gold/herring bone Tadpolly, and custom painted Wiggle Wart with black top deep red sides and orange belly. Water was low and clear. Thanks to: Mark Christian Water: Green Date: 12/6 Report: Fished Flaming Geyser 12-6-00 and landed about a 13 lb. hatchery hen, in great shape, hope there's more!!! |
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