I went to my honey hole low on the river this morning. After all the low water and a dead opening day, I had not ventured back there yet this year. Much to my disappointment, there are still no fish holding there. I am beggining to think that the hole has changed with all of the material coming down from the slide and the fish don't like it there anymore. Then I went up higher on the river and found a good group of fish. The fishing was not hot, but pretty consistant. Ended up with 5 fish on and a limit for 4 or 5 hours of fishing. I saw 4 other fish caught and kept and also saw one king caught and released. I am very pleased and encouraged that there seems to be so many chinook around in the river still this late... of course it doesn't help that there are gill nets across the river catching those endangered fish... One at I-5 today covered the whole main channel just upstream of the bridge.

Jimbo

9/20/2014 8:05:00 AM

Thanks for for the report. ya it's so sad to see that netted off every year now.

ampfish

9/20/2014 8:22:00 AM

Yeah pretty ridiculous even after the big deal of shuting down the steelhead hatchery fish to save the wild fish and the media makes a bigg deal about it and then talks about how the indians do all this restoration to smolt habitat witch is all fine and dandy but doesnt matter if they keep taking these fish a female king lays 2500 to 7000 eggs at a one percent return thats 25 to 70 fish out of the system now times that by the hundreds of incidental catch thats a lot of fish out of the system its time that they stop blaiming every thing else cause they dont want to deal with the real reason ive found the best way instead of bad mouthing them to people who dont fish is to throw facts out like i just did it makes them think instead of making them think your a raciest prick who just hates the indians

stillyfisher

9/21/2014 9:57:00 PM

The idea that everybody has gone to selective fisheries exept the tribes which acount for 50% of the catch is mind blowing to me. They should be taking a leadership role on resource stewardship. Let the healthy stocks of fish get caught - take meaningful steps to protect the threatened ones. I have seen several BIG fall chinook on the stilly come floating down that clearly had been killed by gill nets. (one went home with me... I was young and dumb at the time...) Why set kill nets that are non-selective? Running a beach sein operation is a great way to harvest the fish you want without impacting the non-targeted species. Really frustrating...

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