Fishing on the Rogue

[Tyee 12]

I am taking a trip that direction this weekend and I was wondering how the fishing was. Does anyone have any information.
Thanks

[Huntar]

I just talked to my brother who lives in Central Pt. He said it has been spotty - good one day, slow the next. Overall, it would probably be worth the trip, some of the fish were good ones for down there (8-9 lbs.)

[RichH]

I just got back yesterday. I fished 2 days from Shady Cove down and yesterday on a 1/2 day float had 7 takedowns, 4 fish to the boat. All on size 30 hotshots, metallic green and blue pirate. 3 were hatchery hens, about 5-6 #.
The other was a wild half pounder. Lost 2 that were around 5-8 #, kinda hard to tell due to the way the light was on the water. Saw a few fly tossers getting some fish. Good luck!

[Straydog]

It's raining hard as I type....... finally!!!!!!
Thank you lord! :grin:

Should be decent fishing this weekend. It will take a lot to soak the soil and blow out the tribs although they say we could get a lot.

Lots of Steelhead through out the system and this rain should bring a bunch of Silvers up..... there have been a lot stacked below Rainey I am told.

[Navigator]

I had a good trip there a couple of weeks ago. Lots of steelhead spreadout throughout the system. I was in the Shady Cove area. The hatchery steelhead are running good size - 25-28" (5-8 lbs). Enjoy.

[RogueFishr]

you should do good anywhere you try. Pretty much seem to be fish scattered all the way from GP to Shady Cove. Lots of decent size fish this year also. If you want any specific info email me and I will try to hook you up.

RF

[Fishing freak]

Tyee,

Here is the fishing report from yesterday for the Rogue. Their should be some nice steelies available if the river doesn't blow out ( the rogue usually holds up pretty well, especially since the ground has been so dry it will absorb most of the first rainfall). Good luck!

November 7, 2002

Fishing and Hunting Report

River Outlook

ROGUE — Summer steelhead-angling with lures and bait remains good in the upper Rogue where those techniques are legal, while catches
have started to taper off in the Grants Pass area.

Fall chinook fishing is fair in the lower Rogue, where coho fishing also has slowed down.

Best bet for the weekend is the far upper stretch of the upper Rogue, where catches have been best in the bait-fishing water that
re-opened Friday. From the Hatchery Hole down to the Rogue Elk boat ramp, anglers can fish with roe, worms, plugs and flies for a good
collection of hatchery steelhead present there. Roe cast in fast water is the best bet, because the bigger steelhead are there eating
washed-out salmon eggs. Egg flies also will work well, with plugs a good choice in long riffles or pocket water.

Most anglers are concentrating their efforts from the Hatchery Hole downstream to Casey State Park. It’s a short stretch, but anglers are
making a day of it by pulling out their driftboats at Casey Park and hauling them back upstream for multiple runs of the same water. Fish as
large as 30 inches have been taken there in the past week.

From Rogue Elk downstream to Gold Ray Dam, fishing is allowed with flies and lures beginning Friday, but no bait. Plug fishing has been good,
but catches have come primarily during the day. The cold mornings have been poor.

The retread steelhead released two weeks ago in the TouVelle and Modoc areas should start moving upstream if the forecasted rains
materialize. Until then, bank fishing for these steelhead should remain good in both of those areas. Casting spinners or drift-fishing with single
egg flies should be good from the bank in most riffles downstream of Dodge Bridge. With the current low-water conditions, the recycled
steelhead likely will not be moving too much.

Flows out of Lost Creek lake remain at 900 cubic feet per second of 45-degree water. The cold flows are meant to help keep wild spring
chinook eggs incubating on their natural schedule.

The steelhead limit remains two adult fin-clipped steelhead a day.

Anglers can legally fish for chinook salmon upstream of Gold Ray Dam, but not in the Rogue from Gold Ray Dam downstream to Hog Creek near
Merlin.

There are lots of chinook around, but most are so dark and decaying that they are unsuitable for handling and should be released unharmed.

In the middle Rogue, steelhead fishing is still good on roe, pink plastic worms, single salmon egg flies or worms and corkies. Most of these fish
are wild steelhead and must be released unharmed.

The Lower Rogue Canyon is slow for salmon, but bait-fishing for salmon and steelhead again is allowed. Fly-fishing for summer steelhead,
primarily halfpounders, remains very good downstream of Blossom Bar, but catches should drop on flies when the water levels increase.

In the bay, trolling anchovies with spinner blades in front of them has been fair for cohos.

Only fin-clipped coho may be kept as part of the limit of two salmon/steelhead a day.

Above tidewater, fishing for cohos is fair with small spinners, with pink, orange, red and black the most popular colors. The fish tend to
congregate in slow-moving pools and in canyon waters. Only fin-clipped cohos may be kept.