October River Fishing Help

[sermak]

My son and I would like to do some river fishing for 3-4 days during the third week of October. We would be fishing out of the Redmond area and would like to hit rivers that are within an hour or 2 of Redmond. I realize that river conditions at the time will probably be the biggest factor in choosing the water. But, in general, what rivers should we put on our list to consider for a trip at that time of year in that area? Would there be any summer steelhead around at that time of year? I'm assuming that salmon would be silvers and chum, correct? Thanks in advance for any thoughts/ideas.

[scott080379]

The best thing I can tell you is to pull up a map and start looking at rivers out to the distance you want to go. Then check the regs for those rivers. Once you got the regs down go into the river reports section and see what kind of reports were being put up that time of year from last. Yes the conditions of the rivers are going to play a big part in what rivers you are planning on fishing. I highly doubt you will find any summer run steelies around that time.

The green/duwamish river should still be good around that time.

Good luck to you and your son

[sermak]

Thanks Scott. We are both brand new to salmon/steelhead fishing in Wash. so I really appreciate the advise.

[scott080379]

Also when the time comes close use this site below to see the flow charts for the river you want to fish.

http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/rt

[HOOKEDONFISHING]

I'm in bellevue I have been going to the Skykomish 40 minutes from you Skokomish is 2 hours away in shelton and now Duwamish is right there in tukwilla 20 minutes away.