More Rain & Wild Steelhead
Well, the rain is pouring once again and there are some awesome wild fish in the rivers right now. We got these and a few others yesterday on the rise. After this next drop fishing should be good. It has been a wet few months. Yesterday the Hoh was flowing at 1,500 CFS and now it is at 23,700 CFS and just peaked. That should get some of that wood moving around, it might wash out some of those sweepers in the upper river. There have been some big wild fish getting caught. I am looking forward to getting back on the rivers when they are falling, fishing was good on the rise. I still have some dates open for the winter season, here is what I have open in January: 18, 19, 28, 31. There are still some prime openings in February, March, and April. Call or email and I will let you know
Happy New Year Fishing Report
Happy New Year! There have been enough hatchery fish around to make it interesting and the wild fish are showing up now too. There are some major changes on the Hoh, well the whole upper river is different. I will be checking out the lower river in the next few days. There are some big sweepers about a mile below the park line and another major blockage before the last high bank above Minie’s. Below Spuce Creek the main river heads right under a log jam and you have to take a small braid to the left. The channels connect back up below Owl Creek. It is going to be fun learning it over again. I hope your Holidays went well. See you on the river.
The Silvers Keep Coming – Olympic Peninsula – 11/18/14
We’ve been fishing the Bogachiel and the Hoh lately. There are a ton of Coho salmon around and some hatchery steelhead are starting to show up. Bogachiel: The river had about 2 ft of vis, coming off a small bump the day before. This was Jeff’s and Kyle’s first time chasing salmon or steelhead. We found some nice silvers. There are still a lot of bright fish moving into the rivers out here. Pink and orange were the colors that were working good for us. The trick right now is to put your rig in front of as many fish as possible, which means posting up on a pile of fish sending a bunch of casts through them. That has been better than running and gunning all day. Hoh: The coho are still coming. I took Eric and John down to the Hoh to see if there was a good amount
Klickitat River Fly Fishing Report – 10/5/14
There have been a lot of chinook and steelhead in the Klickitat lately. Norm and Jimmy came out from Pennsylvania for five days and had an epic trip. They were really out for the Fall chinook, but after their arms got tired of pulling on 15-30lb chinook they were glad that there were plenty of steelhead around. The weather was not quite salmon or steelhead weather, 60-80 degrees with bright sun. One morning we saw a black bear across the river. It just hung out for about 10 minutes, looking in the water and pacing up and down the bank. We were able to get some great pictures with the low light just coming over the canyon walls behind the bear. The amount of angling pressure on the Klickitat is more every year. But, there are a lot of fish in the system.
Washington Fly Fishing Report – 9/4/14
The past week has been pretty good fishing. We have been getting summer steelhead nymphing and on the swing. The steelhead have really been coming in the rivers and the little bit of rain we have been getting isn’t hurting at all. It will actually help to keep some of the fiberglass on the bottom of my boat.