David Johnson
04-18-2001, 08:40 AM
I was going to start up at Wind River yesterday but I got a slow report from there and then a good report from Bonneville so I went to Bonnevill. And what a day! I've never seen spring chinook fishing like this before. True, I've seen bites go on with action like I saw yesterday, but never for all day.
I started at seven and from the time I got out there until 1 o'clock you could not look out over the fleet of boats without seeing three to six fish on at a time. In the afternoon it slowed but there was still at least one fish on at all times. There must have been hundreds of fish landed.
We ended up catching 10, 8 of them being hatchery. We lost four or five and had at least six other grabs and several misses. We also hooked one oversize sturgeon. We broke her off because there was no chance of landing her with the hundreds of boats out there.
A guide friend of mine, Bob Singley, hooked five oversize yesterday, all on eggs. Could this be the new hot sturgeon bait? They also got seven chinook.
It seamed like almost every guide out there took home salmon limits or just under limits.
There were some caught on Kwikfish but most were on eggs. We caught all our fish back bouncing eggs with 12 onces of lead in 40 to 60 feet of water.
The Columbia was fun while it lasted and we should be thankfull we even got a season at all. Hopefully NSIA will be able to get us a season again out here next year.
David Johnson www.davidjohnsonfishing.citysearch.com (http://www.davidjohnsonfishing.citysearch.com)
I started at seven and from the time I got out there until 1 o'clock you could not look out over the fleet of boats without seeing three to six fish on at a time. In the afternoon it slowed but there was still at least one fish on at all times. There must have been hundreds of fish landed.
We ended up catching 10, 8 of them being hatchery. We lost four or five and had at least six other grabs and several misses. We also hooked one oversize sturgeon. We broke her off because there was no chance of landing her with the hundreds of boats out there.
A guide friend of mine, Bob Singley, hooked five oversize yesterday, all on eggs. Could this be the new hot sturgeon bait? They also got seven chinook.
It seamed like almost every guide out there took home salmon limits or just under limits.
There were some caught on Kwikfish but most were on eggs. We caught all our fish back bouncing eggs with 12 onces of lead in 40 to 60 feet of water.
The Columbia was fun while it lasted and we should be thankfull we even got a season at all. Hopefully NSIA will be able to get us a season again out here next year.
David Johnson www.davidjohnsonfishing.citysearch.com (http://www.davidjohnsonfishing.citysearch.com)