I'm planning a day trip to the sol duc next week and was wondering what is the preferred method. I'll be fishing from the bank, from the mouth to the hatchery. Is this a river that is affected by the tides? I have heard to use spinners, spoons, jigs, wiggle warts,& etc. Any help would be nice

Check out the thread "Silver Techniques in River"and pay attention to what Dave said. The water is really low now so I think this is the answer your looking for.

There are fish in there too.

The most important thing is.......BE EARLY! You know how there are guys coming out with fish when you're just going in?.....there's a reason.

Fished the bark hole on the sol duc on Thursday, fish jumping and rolling every where, fished it until about 9:30 on our way out we ran into a local( Dewey) who has been fishing the river for 25+ yrs. He told us that we wern't going to get anything on lures, he talked to us for about ten minutes and invited us down to the river to us some of his eggs. We fished for about another hour, I caught one small jack coho that I released. He then told us were to go on the quill and what to us. We stopped at the three rivers store for some launch and saw a picture of a 38lber that was caught on the lower quill earlier yesterday. The ladies at the store were very nice and they told us the same thing that Dewey told us.Fished the lower quill saw one guy with about a 15lber. heard a Indian on the river say that he netted 60 kings the nite before. Ran into another local who caught 14 on monday, 1 tuesday, 0 wednesday and none on thursday so far. One thing that I have learned on my two trips to the forks area for fishing is that the people up there are very nice and are willing to help you out and give us pointers. I'm taking this fall and winter to educate myself on the rivers up there, if I get a fish that is bonus. I grew up fishing in the salt and now I am trying to learn the rivers. Am thinking of going with a guide to learn more if anyone knows of good guides up there let me know thanks.

my advice if you wanna fish the duc?

be here when the river crests after this rain.

fish low, put a spinner/spoon in the face of a moving fish.