It’s been a while since my
last update. As you can imagine I’ve been on the water a lot lately. If you
follow my blog, you know my statement that conditions can and do change
quickly. True to form this is exactly what has happened. We have gone from low
water drought conditions, to high water flood conditions. We’ve been begging
for some rain and that’s exactly what we got. I often say be careful for what
we ask for, we may just get it. When all this rain finally settles out, we are
going to receive approximately 7 inches of rain. This is a lot of rainfall
without being generated by a hurricane. As of now I am still fishing the Salmon
River. We are making a shift from salmon fishing to steelhead fishing. We had a
great salmon run hopefully this will continue on to the steelhead run. As for
water flows, as you can imagine, water flow is up. Water flows went from the
minimum flow of 185 CFS a present flow of 1800 CFS. This is not adding the
heavy runoff. The run off was so heavy that Douglas salmon run closed
operations down due to high water flows for Saturday October 22nd, A
rare event to say the least. As for the
fishing, the salmon run was very good run to say the least. We had fish
trickling in almost daily, which made the fishing consistently good with just a
little bit of effort. Over the last two days I’m seeing a sharp drop off the
new salmon coming into the river and a slow but steady improvement in the
steelhead fishing. Keep in mind we will still see a few new salmon trickling in
periodically and of course there is salmon spawning all through the river as of
now. At this stage of the game we will concentrating our efforts towards
steelhead fishing. I would like to tell you the type of water and a few
techniques we are using catch these steelhead, But the game has changed. One
thing is for certain Standard flies will produce, egg patterns in colors of
Orange, Chartreuse, and her Oregon cheese. Egg sucking leech, I like the Orange
heads on this fly pattern. For the high
water break out all the fun stuff we like to swing. It will take a couple of
days to figure out the new patterns with the steelhead fishing. Conditions can
and do change quickly.
Saturday, October 22, 2016
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