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#225618 - 12/31/03 11:53 PM Green river summer runs
floatandjig Offline
Juvenille at Sea

Registered: 12/31/03
Posts: 154
Loc: Puyallup
Anyone fish the Palmer Kanasket area on the green for summer steelies? What techniques are consistent producers?

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#225619 - 01/01/04 01:08 PM Re: Green river summer runs
Mooch Offline
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Registered: 12/24/01
Posts: 1972
Loc: Kingston, WA
floatandjig,

floatandjig.
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#225620 - 01/01/04 03:45 PM Re: Green river summer runs
Metalhead Mojo Offline
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Registered: 11/26/01
Posts: 555
Loc: Browns Point
floatandjig, you are asking the wrong question...

when summer fish are that far up the green, you just need to put something in front of their nose and they will almost always hit it. you would do just fine to use your moniker, or a spoon, or a spinner.

the question you should be asking about is run timing. 99% of fishing the upper green is finding the fish, once you do that the catching is the easy part.
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#225621 - 01/01/04 05:38 PM Re: Green river summer runs
Fishingjunky15 Offline
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Registered: 03/22/03
Posts: 874
Loc: Puyallup, WA
Float and eggs.....

Or if you can find the right water: spoons, drift fishing, and flies.
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#225622 - 01/01/04 08:12 PM Re: Green river summer runs
Mooch Offline
Three Time Spawner

Registered: 12/24/01
Posts: 1972
Loc: Kingston, WA
f&j,
Sorry I couldn't resist earlier.
But seriously, fishing the Green is generally not much different than fishing for summers anywhere else. But if you don't mind hiking, I have found that the Green does lend itself better than some rivers to a technique that is more like stalking or hunting fish than your typical cast and thrash style of fishing. After the light was up, we would spend the bulk of our time cruising the headworks or the canyon away from the river to look down and spot fish before casting to them. Where they were situated usually determined how we fished for them. Spotting fish and then casting spoons, spinners and jigs worked better for me than soaking bait in the deeper pools. If the fish didn't move after our first attempts sometimes we'd even toss a big red mag wart or Kwick fish with surprising results (didn't have pink worms back then). When all else failed, we'd fish the riffles and fast water hard before moving on to spot more fish.
Hope that helps.
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#225623 - 01/02/04 12:45 PM Re: Green river summer runs
Yakutat Jack Offline
Juvenile at Sea

Registered: 06/18/01
Posts: 175
I used to fish that area often, but it has been 20-25 years ago. Ugh! But we did very well back then.

I had heard that summer run plants were discontinued and the summer run in the upper Green declined as a result. Are there now healthy numbers of summer fish in the palmer-konasket area and worth fishing again? thx!

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