A friend of mine asked for a river update so here goes. Everything has been rather blah for a bit but in the last couple of days I have had several salmon doing the scoot across the water leaving the back V in the water when the tide is out. Little early for Coho so I imagine it is Chinook jacks (3 year olds I think) but one cannot say for sure.
A substantial number of some sort of small fish have been around and frankly it is a lot of them. The bald eagle has been going nuts going after them when the tide is low and judging from the ones he gets and I can get a look at as it flies up to the trees about 5 to 7 inches in length. No idea from me what they are but that bird is in hog heaven! The Blue Herons have been working the channel also and cleaning up on some fish but these are much smaller than whatever the eagle is after so we have a lot of small fish in schools around. I watched two guys sturgeon fishing hook one no idea on size but it took them the better part of half an hour to get it to the boat to release. It must have been a large one judging by the high fives and shouting!
Again be careful of the East end of Higgins Island when the tide is around half in or out. I watched a wave runner find the gravel bar and it caused a interruption in his race up and down the river. With no high water of any size for a couple of years the gravel bar is building and we have several new dead heads lurking around.
One thing for fishing. The weather forecast for September and October has much more rain than normal. While I never believe extended forecast day by day the patterns I do pay attention to and this forecast is different. C&P the link below to see but wetter and well below average temperatures appear to be in our fishing futures!
https://www.accuweather.com/en/us/aberdeen/98520/september-weather/336359?year=2025
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