I live on the river in Elma. I kind of try for them there. Only because it is literally right there, if I was really wanting to go springer fishing for a day I would head south. When I want to go for an hour or two, I go down there. Consider yourself lucky that you live on a river that has a run of salmon in it, and just spend some time trying. I can fish it without moving my car, so it is a cheap way to get a fix for me if I need it.

There are some who have success, as mentioned above, but you just have to lower expectations a bit.

Not to mention the Chehalis is a difficult river to learn, overall, but living there I bet you know that.

I rate my trips like this; seeing one in a riffle = good day, or getting a pull down that was a "definite maybe" = good day. Anything beyond that moves to the great day category.

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