Northwest Fishing Reports

Since the Fall chinook run is predicted at around 1.6 mil
I have booked a few trips with this Fishing guide!! She seems to know her stuff. Following her direction earlier this year we got into several Springers and today she told me she thought she could show me a few of the fall run. So on a whim I booked a trip with her in the morning to see. Says this is a beach run and once she gets the speed control back for her boat perhaps a midweek run or this next weekend. Since they are allowing 6 clipped fish I will go with her choices!!!

She has told me I can't post any photos of what she knows either.

Thats a happy guide right there!

Well after listening to her sales pitch and she showing me the count's I bought in on her tale!!!
She is a prefabricator of falsehoods!!
We hit below Little Goose this morning 9-14 and it was a ghost town. Only one other fisherman. The conditions were nice and Sunny at around 39 degrees.

But the water was as flat as my head!!!

Some local guys were running a bass tourney and beating the banks. Talked to a guy in the boat and he was marking fish just laying above the bottom but I had no Magic in my tackle today.
Oh well thats why they call it fishing

What is her fee for a guided trip?

fishinChristian wrote:What is her fee for a guided trip?

I think she is more reasonable than most guides. Her usual fees are a bag of snaks and some cold bottled water. She is at her best when the client is fighting a fish since that allows her to check out the snak bag!!
She has told me I get the Veterans Discount as well.

She also has a "No" fish clause. If we draw a blank she doesn't charge for the next trip of her choice. She is hinting that perhaps mid week she would like to make a Vernita run. That way we aren't fishing with 400 of our closest friends we haven't met yet!!

Since she is a versatile guide I booked a Grouse trip with her this morning. We left the lodge around 6:30 to see what she could find. We encountered 1 Skunk running to get under the neighbors tin pile,2 coyotes hot footing thru a hay field, 1 bear to which we had a bear tag a 20 guage and the guide. The next species was we had a nice Bull Moose in a swamp. We did see one Road Cheeken but it has played the game before and my guess is when it took wing it landed in Canada!!

How'd that skunk taste...?

From years of experiance we chose to leave it alone.

Good gir... guide!

Have only had to do a tomato juice bath once with all the dawgs I have had but thats plenty!!!

Sounds like the cost of the guide is going up!!! Seems she has her eye on a newer tractor and just got off the phone with the old owner!!!