Steelhead Reports and Pics 2012-2013

[Steelheadin360]

Got a phone call last night at 6pm that my buddy was hitting the N.F. Stilly. crazy b*st*rd. So after a 50 min drive i pulled into his driveway and we went down to the honey hole by his house, pitch black outside. first cast with some firecure shrimp (no glow jig, straight shrimp, i was testing something) and my little glow stick is gone. See attached picture. Lost 3 more and landed another. off the river by 9pm. what i thought was crazy is i always thought you need a glow jig to fish at night. wrong!! some stinky shrimp under a float is all those fish need.

[Brat Bonker]

I thought you were kidding about fishing at night haha.

[Steelheadin360]

i love fishing at night! the fish cant see you which takes away the shyness. the only thing that p*ssed me off last night was a guy up at the hatchery creek that was spotlighting the hole river when it was dark. big no no if you want to catch any fish, so we moved down the river and it turned out to be a good night.

[NewJack]

Not sure where the hatchery creek is but I was on the NF last night with no luck on raw shrimp.

[Steelheadin360]

Were you at fortson?

[NewJack]

If your asking about the guy with the red light swearing up a storm then yes. I was out of there pretty early though.

[Brat Bonker]

so glow jigs and dyed prawns huh interesting, what about glow balling?

[Steelheadin360]

so glow jigs and dyed prawns huh interesting, what about glow balling?

Never used a glow ball.... i wasnt even using glow jigs last night. is a glow ball just a corkie?

If your asking about the guy with the red light swearing up a storm then yes. I was out of there pretty early though.

my buddy ight have seen you, he was over by the creek. i was down at the picnic table hole, then we went down by oso. some guy was on your side with a flash light shining the water. but the red light is the way to go!


I wanted to go tomorrow but looking at the usgs site she is gonna blow tonight. might be fishable be mid morning

[NewJack]

I was hoping to get out during daylight hours tomarrow as well but like you said, looks like it may blow out.

[Steelheadin360]

Im going up there about 3am, ill pm you a report. or shoot me your number

[racfish]

Fishing at night is nothing new. Certain natural baits have Phosflourescent in their skin . I feel thats why when there is a moon fishing tapers off the next day.We used to use Crawfish meat from the tails. When we would lite up the glo ball corkies we noticed the tail meat had its own light emitting from it. I could never prove this but through years of fishing the N. W we found fishing wasnt as good the next few days after the moon went down. I guess this is a "Racfish,Believe it or Not"

[Steelheadin360]

dont tell me the moon went down yesterday..... and lunar patterns have been an accepted way of calculating angling sucess for a number of years.

smelt is another one that almost glows at night.

[Amx]

Full moon was 7 days/nights ago. The New/Dark moon is 7 days/nights from today. These nights the last few years I catch more night Bass under the Dark Moon. I used to catch more Largies under the Full moon, and used the shadow lines just like day fishing and the shadows from the docks, logs, and all.

[Brat Bonker]

yeah a glow ball is a glow corky. Can you get to the fortson hole from fortson mill pond rd I saw a gamie go down there the last time we were up there but I have tried to go down it but the road splits in to 3 parts, pretty sketchy too.

[Steelheadin360]

yea but you gotta have 4x4 when its wet out. get a little soupy

[Brat Bonker]

which split road do you take though the right one?

[goodtimesfishing]

Got #6 today, nice brite 8 lb hen with lots of eggs. Only saw one other fish caught.

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[bcustom1]

Beautiful fish. Nice work!

[RiverChromeGS]

nice steelie marc! wonder if the numbers are ever gonna show up...

[RiverChromeGS]

Got a phone call last night at 6pm that my buddy was hitting the N.F. Stilly. crazy b*st*rd. So after a 50 min drive i pulled into his driveway and we went down to the honey hole by his house, pitch black outside. first cast with some firecure shrimp (no glow jig, straight shrimp, i was testing something) and my little glow stick is gone. See attached picture. Lost 3 more and landed another. off the river by 9pm. what i thought was crazy is i always thought you need a glow jig to fish at night. wrong!! some stinky shrimp under a float is all those fish need.

forgot to ask, summers or winters, or mixed? one in the pic looks like a summer hen