GutshotApe
11-22-2002, 04:11 PM
Made a quick trip over the hill and fished "the gravel stockpile" hole (a mile above The Horn) on Lake Creek this morning. Very clear and low water. No fish seen and not much happening up or downstream although a guy I talked to said there were some silvers rolling at Indianola.
Then went on down and fished my favorite bobber water on the Siuslaw. A big boulder slide dammed the river eons ago making a 10' drop with a 1/4 mile-long pool above. As usual there were fish rolling & breaching - looked like both soreback chinook and medium-bright silvers plus searun cutts. And, as usual, they weren't biting. Someone had apparently hooked a silver or a small chinook and it ran between two submerged boulders where the line jammed and broke off. The fish was still hooked and is now dead, floating just below the surface but tethered to the bottom between the big rocks. Wasn't there last time I was but birds have already begun pecking their way into the carcass where it just breaks the surface.
Chinook are spawning in Lake Creek under the BLM's concrete Fish Creek bridge about 2 or 3 miles west of Triangle Lk just off hwy 36. Its closed waters but if you wanted to show the wife & kids spawning salmon, this is a good place to do it. :cool:
Then went on down and fished my favorite bobber water on the Siuslaw. A big boulder slide dammed the river eons ago making a 10' drop with a 1/4 mile-long pool above. As usual there were fish rolling & breaching - looked like both soreback chinook and medium-bright silvers plus searun cutts. And, as usual, they weren't biting. Someone had apparently hooked a silver or a small chinook and it ran between two submerged boulders where the line jammed and broke off. The fish was still hooked and is now dead, floating just below the surface but tethered to the bottom between the big rocks. Wasn't there last time I was but birds have already begun pecking their way into the carcass where it just breaks the surface.
Chinook are spawning in Lake Creek under the BLM's concrete Fish Creek bridge about 2 or 3 miles west of Triangle Lk just off hwy 36. Its closed waters but if you wanted to show the wife & kids spawning salmon, this is a good place to do it. :cool: