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TrophyTaker
06-25-2009, 03:41 PM
Hey Everyone,

as my first contribution i thought id do a little fishing report on the Nehalem River. about a week a ago me and my dad went over there to do a little cutthroat fishing. we went down highway 26 to the road that leads to Nehalem falls campground. stopped off at the second bridge and fished underneath it to the bend downriver. the fishing is so hot right now i could have beat the water with a stick and still caught em. we spent about 3 hours at that small stretch of river and caught 30-35 fish between the two of us.

we also fished a few holes down river farther but none even compared to the first stretch.

all in all we caught 40-45 combined. as for flies i used red or black wolly buggers and spruce fly works well too. Royal trude, coachmen, and wulff work well for dries.

somewhat easy to fish, although access is a problem. i recommend bringing waders if you don't want to get wet

etacada
06-25-2009, 04:26 PM
Very cool, thanks for the report and welcome aboard!

cb

Ladyangler
06-25-2009, 05:58 PM
How big were the fish you caught, just curious. Sounds like you guys got into them. Did you see anyone else fishing?

TrophyTaker
06-25-2009, 09:02 PM
about half were 8"+, my biggest was about 11". the rest were 5"-7"

not another person fishing that we saw

Seansquatch
06-25-2009, 10:37 PM
Nice a friend of mine was telling me he went down there and had similar results. Your name doesnt happen to be ryan does it?

TrophyTaker
06-25-2009, 10:46 PM
ha. sup sean

Wild Chrome
06-26-2009, 01:36 PM
Are you sure they were cutts and not steelhead smolts? Picture?

TrophyTaker
06-26-2009, 03:39 PM
sorry no pics. I'm positive that the majority were cutthroat. but I do remember catching a 1 or 2 that had a lesser amount of spots and more of a rainbow-ish pattern on them, but they could have just been natives. my dad thinks he caught a small steelhead (11 or 12") but he wasn't sure.

halfrack
06-26-2009, 03:45 PM
man thanks for the report! the fly recomendations are a great help thank you!

blacktail
06-26-2009, 04:04 PM
That many in the same area and in the size range you described sure sounds like smolts.

Trout
06-27-2009, 07:57 PM
Cutthroats, steelhead smolts, or goldfish - I am just glad you had fun out there. Release the fish carefully and they should be fine. The last thing I am worried about is a couple of catch and release fly fishers decimating the steelhead run.