mouth of the sandy and upriver brights

[ampersat]

so, with the sandy pumping mud out to the columbia and likely doing so for most of the summer, what's this going to do to upriver steelie fishing at the mouth? conventional wisdom in the past was that upriver fish would pull into the flow at the mouth to cool off on their way upstream. however, if it's running dirty, are fish still going to stop by to cool off? if they do, what would you suggest as a good rig to fish in that water?

[Artwo]

ampersat,
In past years when the Sandy would silt up we would do well trolling the mud (silt) line out in the Columbia using either shrimp spinner (same as prawn spinner only with a sand shrimp) or pulling plugs.

JK

[FishinMission]

If it were me.....I'd sit just upriver from where they'd be coming out of the dirty, cooler water.

We used to knock the crap out of them just upriver as they headed up on their way upriver.

Mark

[Jooky]

dirty sandy water is 63 degrees
columbia water is 64 degrees
not too much to cool off to