Point Defiance, and yes the seals are always there, maybe we'll get lucky and have orcas come and get em. I still haven't had my 115 E-tec in the water yet, anxious to see how she performs, I need to get a S/S Prop after I try out the stock 15" to determine which to get, short shaft is limited to 15". Hopefully the seals have left some fish around, I picked up a paint ball gun to keep them at a distance.

good Luck""

ill be somewhere with my line in the water. Not sure exactly where yet though.
Omar

The Sky has been coming down a lot lately but it looks like it may start to go back up before June 1st.

I'll be fishing South Sound as a shake down for our Neah Bay trip later in the month. No problem with crowds here! Just not a lot of fish...

Gators on the Lower Columbia for Team J and L

many of you mentioned fishing the Lower Columbia.. for those of you who actually go be EXTREMELY CAREFUL! The river is Very very very high ( higher than i have ever seen it) with run off and is full of logs and debris. just a heads up be careful

It'll be interesting to watch the amounts of people, that "hit the rivers", as the price of gas increases.

Went to Olympia on Friday, about 2 pm.......just for fun I started counting, trailers, camper, motorhomes......by the time we got to "I-5"...we had counted 118, headed west........maybe the last clam tide???? Maybe the 3 day weekend but that seemed like quite a few for us to count in a 45 minute drive.

Diesel......wow, $5.05 in Olympia.........

I'll be close to home, but I'll be there........I have a rock "with my name on it".......lol

be EXTREMELY CAREFUL! The river is Very very very high ( higher than i have ever seen it) with run off and is full of logs and debris. just a heads up be careful [/quote]


Words of Wisdom....This is going to be true for most rivers in the state...
wear your PFD...once you've hit the water, it's too late....

I'll be working on the opener... and then reading reports to see where to fish the day after.

More like "hole" isn't it?

Scouted the Sky on Saturday coming from the east side accross Steven's Pass and along the South Fork, Index and actually got out at High Bridge- water is high and powerful, too colored to fish. The water level is around 14,000 CFM which is about twice ideal from what I understand.

Went all over the Green on Sunday- from the headwork through all of the State Parks and it is completely shot! water is colorful and up in the trees! actually, the water has been closed by the Sherriffs department on account of safety.

Might be OK for plunking, but no drifting or spinning for a little while still.

http://ahps2.wrh.noaa.gov/ahps2/hydrograph.php?wfo=sew&gage=glbw1

sky should be flowing at 8-9k on the opener unless we get some hot weather then its doomed

If you can't beat em, join em.

i cant wait to get my boat out there im going to stay below the wallace flats should be a good time to run my sled on the sky bought it a few months ago and dialed it in on the cowlitz

Like troller I used to hit the Green every opening Day, I lived on it, Them were the Glory Days, long passed. This year I'll be going down to check to see if the toutle is fishable, If not, with all the high Water I think the elocoman might be a good hit. Every body have fun and be safe, with the high water it's not the time to take chances.

If you're on the Sky this Sunday, do it on the bank and you'll get treated to the sight of seeing sleds trying to sidedrift at 6 knots...anything over 10K cfs on the Sky is virtually impossible to fish from a boat, as all the fishable water is within about four feet of the bank, and the water is flying by outside of that.

Add to that that the Sky will more likely be flowing at 14,000 or 15,000 cfs on Sunday...finding a traveling lane near shore off the bank will be your best bet...sidedrifting will be spending a lot of gas money for not much fishing, I'd say.

Fish on...

Todd

I was also curious about the Eloc with the high water around here- thinking that it would clear out faster. But I have never been there in the summer since it gets so low... does it have much of a summer return? The 2006 WDFW smolt plants are pretty skimping looking- 34,000?

I just stopped by the Wallace Hatchery and there was not a single fish in the trap.

I stopped by the Wallace last Saturday to see what was happening, but at that time, they weren't allowing any fish into the trap. The upper end of the trap was open too, so they must have just dropped the gates in.

I heard of a couple kings coming from the mouth of the Wallace.