2014 Steelhead season

[CoastRange57]

Yeah, this is going to be the flush we have been waiting for. Fishing the top of the river drop is going to be pretty good.

 

[Caveman Jim]

A few friends went plunking and had 10 take downs & limited by noon!!!!! I was unable to go (kicking myself in arse profusely)

The rivers in Grays Harbor are on a steep rise, looks like they will be out of shape by tomorrow....

 

[Sabertooth]

Good rain fall the last couple weeks. Steelhead should have started up the Rogue.
Open presents Christmas day, indigestion the next day, then go fishing.

 

[Caveman Jim]

Steelheading on my favorite river and got this...... that's my buddies fish..... I'm not that ugly.......

 

[U201491]

I have given up on Steelhead as all the rivers I grew up fishing on the Steelhead have gone the way of the dodo bird. Heck the count for Steelhead on the once renowned Salmon River (Mt.Hood) for 2014 from the region biologists is 6. The Salmon count wasn't much better at 500 or so. What a shame when it used to be a top Steelhead river in the state.

Fishing itself will become extinct unless they reopen all the old and build new hatcheries. There will never be a viable "so called native fish" run that is sustainable. Just population of people alone will insure that and the result of trying to make that happen will end fishing for everyone. Hatchery fish ARE native fish and the origins are the same. The only thing that makes them different is the late release of hatchery fish. Release more and earlier and they won't be distinguishable from native fish. AND stop that idiotic fin clipping BS and just accept they are all the same fish. The runs will grow and there will be more than enough fish to go back to the old limits and enough for EVERYONE. There was no fish shortage when the hatcheries were running at full speed. The runs declined when they began closing down hatcheries. The nature eco nuts be damned !
It was the Californians that moved here that fouled that up also. The native crap and the fly fishing only crap began on rivers like the Metolius and Deschutes and the fishing clubs mainly made up of out of state imported braindead enviro nut jobs. They got pizzed because they were not catching fish and the bait fisherman standing next to them limited out. It was born of Jealousy and retardation.


Sorry, had to do that. I love fishing and the enviro native brainwashed nutcasess are ruining it for all of us.

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[Quacky88]

Steelheading on my favorite river and got this...... that's my buddies fish.....

Wow Awesome Fish! Congrats on a successful run

 

[U201491]

Wow Awesome Fish! Congrats on a successful run

Jim always GETS FISH
Have had springer fever since thanksgiving.................

 

[Caveman Jim]

Quacky that was a silver (coho).......
We were targeting steelhead.....

 

[Quacky88]

Picky picky Jim. Your all business...
Lol

 

[Caveman Jim]

I know should have seen me at work (there is a reason why they call it work).....

 

[Duds77]

We really put the hurtin on the coho this year. Caveman, the river where your buddy caught the coho looks familiar if that's the case it's my favorite too
That's a picture of me with a summer run brat on one of our op rivers what a fun weekend that was!

 

[Caveman Jim]

It starts with a C Zach. Yeah it was one of the best runs in recent memory.
Really waiting for any positive reports for steel....
I know I need to go and make my own

 

[scrandall01215]

Ya we do Jim!

 

[Caveman Jim]

Ya we do Jim!

I'm leery of getting in the Cow at 10,000 cfs or I would have spent all last week there, but I opted to stay local where there are at least some fish that want to play in my boat...
Come on up Stacy, it's only an hour from the Cow..

 

[scrandall01215]

Sounds good! I might be off all next week too, ribs are still hurting.
I'll text you later
Stacy

 

[Caveman Jim]

COOL!!!!

 

[U201491]

You guys have some good steelie water up there. the regulators and de-hatchers have screwed up most of ours.
Our only salvation is our springer run. They well most likely screw that up before long too.

 

[Caveman Jim]

WDFW region 6 in Montesano is the states worst managed area. They have been in bed with the cowboys (commercial fishers) for eons and manage "paper fish" with no accountability for escapement!!!!

They know well & good how to bubblegum up a fishery, one river has a late run of steelhead (large fish 20+#) and it has had such a low amount of returning adults it is pathetic!!! And we have hounded WDFW for years and they have adopted a program that relies on conservative numbers instead of "paper fish".

 

[Sabertooth]

And the rains came!!!! Rogue is rolling brown!

 

[Caveman Jim]

So are the rivers in my neck of the woods!!!!!