Fall Chinook

[pdx1]

Caught this one last weekend..
Gonna try again tomorrow

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[pdx1]

One more today.... not for me, but my buddy
Both from the bank, on a bobber

 

[Timbertodd]

Rockin the nooks and the stash. Nice fish!

 

[KKG]

They're way too small!!! Tossm' back - My way.

 

[TDH]

Right on- what river if you don't mind me asking?

 

[pdx1]

It took me a long time and wet line to find
this place
I have to take the photos as to not show the hole, but I will say somewhere on the salmon river

 

[TDH]

Totally understand I don't want to give up the honey hole!

 

[Sniper03]

pdx,

I am envious of you NW guys. Maybe someday I will get out your way for a fishing trip. I have some good friends in Tualatin OR. who fish a lot. I had to laugh last year even though at the time it was not funny to them. I guess they had a good fish on out there and some Seal came up grabbed the fish and took it! WOW! Is that common?
However, in Tennessee we have some great fishing of another kind here on the lake. (Dale Hollow - 650 Miles of Shoreline) Home of the world record Small Mouth Bass. They average here from around 19" to 22" with once in a while 24". Still hoping to catch a record bigger than the record! We also have Lake Trout, Walleye, Large Mouth Bass and an occasional Muskie, Crappie and Blue Gills. But looking forward to someday a trip to the NW. "Great Fish and Photo!"

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[KKG]

RE: The Fish-On and the Seal. The worst thing that comes to mind is when a Sea Lion comes up and all it takes is the entire belly and you're stuck with the rest. The Law says if it's Dead you have to keep it and what's left counts towards your limit! THAT really SUCKS!

 

[Sniper03]

WOW~!
That really does suck! You are correct it was what they call a Sea Lion! Is this a common occurrence?

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[KKG]

Is this a common occurrence? 03

I don't suppose it could be called "common" but it does happen and the Down side is really Down. It's more common if you fish anywhere near a set of Locks but then the Fishing is generally better there.

 

[Caveman Jim]

One more today.... not for me, but my buddy
Both from the bank, on a bobber

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Fishing is addictive, CONGRATS.
Love the frantic search scanning the water for my bobber then feeling the tug of a fish on the line.... It's my drug!!!

 

[No_Regerts]

pdx,

I am envious of you NW guys. Maybe someday I will get out your way for a fishing trip. I have some good friends in Tualatin OR. who fish a lot. I had to laugh last year even though at the time it was not funny to them. I guess they had a good fish on out there and some Seal came up grabbed the fish and took it! WOW! Is that common?
However, in Tennessee we have some great fishing of another kind here on the lake. (Dale Hollow - 650 Miles of Shoreline) Home of the world record Small Mouth Bass. They average here from around 19" to 22" with once in a while 24". Still hoping to catch a record bigger than the record! We also have Lake Trout, Walleye, Large Mouth Bass and an occasional Muskie, Crappie and Blue Gills. But looking forward to someday a trip to the NW. "Great Fish and Photo!"

03

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If you come up this way, don't forget that we too have great fishing for smallmouth and blue ribbon walleye fishing!

 

[Mikej]

I guess they had a good fish on out there and some Seal came up grabbed the fish and took it! WOW! Is that common?

At times there are so many fur bags in the Willamette River just below Willeamette falls that 50% of the spring chinook hooked will be grabed/chased by them. The Willamette flows into the Columbia at Portland. I don't fish it because of the crowds, and the sea lions. From what I hear, when someone hooks a salmon in that area no one in the boat should stand up, shout or show a net. The guy with the fish on has to crank as hard as he can, and at the last second the net guy will jump up with the net and scoop the fish. Fisherman that anchor along side each other in "Hog Lines" will have the fur bags just hang out below them waiting for someone to hook a fish then steel it. A couple three years ago a guy in the lower Willamette had a salmon grabbed that was IN THE NET. It about took the netters finger that were in the mesh of the net to bring the fish aboard, and could have very well pulled him into the river over the gunnel. We call 'em "Seal Huggers", the ones that fight ANY measures to eliminate or reduce the numbers of these beasts at choke points for salmon, such as below dams, at the entrance to fish ladders etc.

So to answer your question, YES, it's very common in some places.

 

[pdx1]

At the falls it is very common, thats why i drive to the coast.
Even there your not safe, but they arent in rhe rivers....
Oh yeah, for the addicts,
Chum r runnin!!!!!!

 

[Caveman Jim]

One of the major factors of where are the salmon & steelhead?

 

[KKG]

When I first moved to the PNW I was about to enter Grade School. All the kids were so excited that Fishing Season was about to open and having come from NW Minnesota I too was looking forward to some Great fishing. Then they burst my Bubble by telling me that we would be fishing for Trout and that a "Keeper" was anything over Six inches (6"). You see we had been fishing for large Northern Pikes and Muskellunge using 9" Suckers!!!

 

[Medic!]

I hear the late season fish are good this year.

 

[KKG]

There just might be a "Keeper" there. CONGRATS and well done.

 

[Mikej]

When I first moved to the PNW I was about to enter Grade School. All the kids were so excited that Fishing Season was about to open and having come from NW Minnesota I too was looking forward to some Great fishing. Then they burst my Bubble by telling me that we would be fishing for Trout and that a "Keeper" was anything over Six inches (6"). You see we had been fishing for large Northern Pikes and Muskellunge using 9" Suckers!!!

Yeah-butt, We don't need to wait for 3' of ice to melt to get to those 6"ers, actually I think it's 8". But I know what you mean. I grew up in UTAH fishing trout waters that are now, 30 years later, call "Blue Ribbon" something or other. I was spoiled to say the least. Browns, Brook, Rainbow/Cut-bow. We wouldn't have thought about keeping 8'ers, unless we were camping in the high country. Above 6000' or something.