It has been too long since my
last update. Long days on the river have a tendency to do that. As many of you
know the salmon fishing has been extremely poor. This has been a bit of a surprise
to me, because I did expect a little better return from last year. But that’s
how fishing goes, some years we have great runs and some years we do not.
Welcome to the natural world, Mother Nature loves throwing curves at us. Even
though we have had some wet weather, Water flows remain stable at 335 CFS
release.
For now the salmon fishing is
starting to wind down. There is a fair number of salmon in the upper river
finishing up their spawning. However do
not be surprised to find some new arriving salmon mixed in. There’s still
plenty time for a run or two of Chinook salmon to come in. Keep in mind for the
most part the salmon are in rough shape.
At this point I am no longer
looking for salmon, it is time to focus on steelhead. At least here everything
appears to be relatively on schedule for now. This past week we started to see
consistent runs of steelhead coming into the Douglaston Salmon Run. We will
have to see of this pattern holds up over the next couple of weeks. We just
went through a sharp cold front; it actually snowed for a day. We had 9-degree temperature drop in less than
36 hours. You can imagine what that did to the fishing. How do you say
shutdown. At this time of writing this update we are coming into a warming
trend. With warming water temperatures And some wet weather we’re having at
this time. We should know exactly what the steelhead-fishing picture is going
to look like.
Productive flies; this week
has been pink and purple Crystal buggers. Those two colors are favors for Coho
Salmon. We are also using the standard earth tone colors, Black, brown, copper,
olive wooly buggers. For steelhead the standard round of egg pattern is working
just fine. Nuclear row bugs and eggbeaters in colors Orange yellow and pink are
the top producers.
NOTE:
November
dates 28,29,30 Open. This is Brown trout and steelhead fishing. Note; Rick Smith, many of you already
know Rick, Will be available to do trips on the Salmon River and the
surrounding Creek for steelhead.
December
remains wide open, this can be an interesting month to fish with lots of
opportunities and light fishing pressure.
If you have any questions
please feel free to contact me cell 585-233-0436