We need a series of "river-cams" to establish the truth around here sometimes and get around these ministeries of disinformation.

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That was all I was trying to say. If you have any info share it.

Fishing must be a little slow?

Matt

Google Sol Duc river cam, should give you a pretty fair idea of whats happening.

the DUCMAN is yankin yer chain. Who would put in and start surfing the net before making a cast. Look at the time he posted. I doubt the DUCMAN knows what the river looks like at 3 boards...it's not 7 anymore

This is good advice! Make friends and ask them, but (as had been said before) in the case of this river: If your report wasn't being typed from a boat on the river it will be old news by the time it's read.

If you know anything about this zone then you know it goes up and down very quickly. It WILL NOT be in the same shape as the report says by the time you drive over from Seattle.

The link to the gauge was posted above. If you don't know how cfs relates to "boards" and how "boards" relate to boatability or fishability, then you either need to find out by going there, counting boards (thanks to whoever just repainted them), comparing what you see to what's on the gauge, OR go hire a guide who can tell you (but they probably won't hold yer hand and tell you which rock to cast behind on-line because that is bad for business).

As for the report: The water condition (or lack thereof) isn't the problem. Yes, fishing has been slow. Some caught fish, some didn't. Mostly the Quill's caught the fish... Yeah, the NATIVE COHO that "we" can't keep. Single barbless in the whole Quill Zone, and they were "knockin' 'em over" (as they say) downstream.

The bottom line is that there is a GAUGE to tell you what the river is doing.

(It's the same info we all have)

No one can predict EXACTLY how much/little rain a certain drainage will get. Seems that more often than not conditions will change before/during/after your trip.

When people say "go check for yourself" they are prob not being diicks. Rather, they are encouraging "you" to go and find out the same way "they" did.

I was down at Richwine bar on wednsday. The the drift net fisherman I talked to said that they had only a handfull of kings that day, and were only picking up maybe an average of 3 coho a drift. It was interesting to watch the guys work, there was at least one drift net in the water at all times. Maybe a big push will come with nets out.

Matt

This points out my number one problem with these boards; People that only are members to get reports from everybody else and never give anything in return.

Ducman.....this was not intended at you so please don't take it that way.

Tim

...that # exponentially increased by time they pulled the nets out.

...there! Nobody can say I didn't contribute some info...

Maybe a big push of leaves and tree branches from the forecasted rain will destroy all the nets when they put them back in when the big push of fish show up... One can only hope...

Well, I am sorry to report was not able to make it to the river this weekend. Daughter came down with pneumonia and spent the
weekend taking care of her and prego wife. Am planning trip this weekend again. Did not mean to stir anything up earlier in post. Some good points were made about the day of fishing the river count boards and croos check river flow. Will post results after this weekend.

sol duc was in good shape when i left forks yesterday afternoon. my buddies got blown off the river with the wind and sheets of rain. but boggy and sol duc were still in shape. heard of 4 pulled off the duck in the last few days(silvers 8-17 lbs.). fish are pushin in when the nets are out. buddy lost 4 on the hoh on friday(kings) went fron 1400 to 1900 sat night. shes blown now. be a bit before it comes back in. suppose to rain out there for the next 4 days prolly blow them out. ganna chase horns for a while in stead.

elk report. muzzleloader. forks was producing this weekend. one in our group got a 4 pt. on sat we were fogged in our zone sunday. heard of another group with 3 and one other with one. goes till friday my elk season is over though.