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[fishnfun]

Hi everybody,
I have been watching here for a while, but just registered here on ifish.
My name is Keric Brooks, I am 15 years old, and addicted to fishing.

I was also wondering if anybody knows any good smaller streams withing 2 hours of home for sea run cutthroats any help will be appreciated.
Thanks

[AndyK]

I was also wondering if anybody knows any good smaller streams withing 2 hours of home for sea run cutthroats



Welcome aboard Keric :wave:.

If we knew where home is (general location) someone might be able to steer you in the right direction.

[Pete]

A strong clue is SEA run cutthroat. Closer to the sea you'll find more of them, but it'll take some learning and experimentation to know when they are running, since it tends to be a short time period. They are also in the Willamette and some of it's tributaries, although the numbers are severely depressed and it's probably not a good idea to target them there until their numbers rebound.

Oh, and welcome aboard!

[fishnfun]

If we knew where home is (general location) someone might be able to steer you in the right direction.




Whoops :redface: I live in Lake Oswego
Thanks

[MTL]

Don't feel too embarrassed, I just read the location ("Lake Oswego, OR") on your informaiton, located directly to the left of your post. Can't help with the SRCTs though, stuck a bit further inland than you.

[TillamookChinook]

Welcome aboard. It's nice to get the young, innocent fishers, ready to be molded into new IFishers; caring and responsible sportspersons who can spin dubbing on thread and spin lies worthy of the Saturday night campfire.

TC

[Gizmo Man]

Welcome aboard...Have fun and feel free to join in the fun.

Giz...

[fishnfun]

Thanks a lot for the very warm welcome everyone!!

[Old Coot]

I'm thinking that at 15 your boat access might be limited, so here are some random thoughts. For bank-fishing opportunities, look for streams that flow into the ocean or estuaries, and that have some significant public access. If you fish low in the estuaries, watch out for bottomless muck - especially in back channels - that will hold you like a vise while you watch the tide flood back in. Take a companion so you can watch out for each other.

If you have a float tube and can launch in tidewater, time your fishing so that you can float up with the incoming tide, then back down with the ebb. Don't try to compete with the salmon crowds, like on the middle Nestucca tidewater, you will lose. WEAR a PFD! Try laying some flies back in under the overhanging brush in tidewater, as well as around deadheads, sweepers, cutbanks and other structure. I used to have some pretty good luck working foam lines along the edges of bank eddies, too.

Upstream, you might look into riffly water during the weather we are likely to have in the next week, or dark hidey-holes. The sea-runs (aka bluebacks 40 years ago) are where you find them, and they are exquisite jewels.

If you fish in salt or brackish water, thoroughly rinse your gear at your first opportunity - do NOT wait for tomorrow. You can literally watch salt corrode fine metals.

Share your good fortune with the fish. If you are lucky enough to get out on the water, and lucky enough to strike some cutts, please consider putting them back so you can try for them again next week and next year. Family and friends might rag you for not bringing home dinner, but trust me, you'll never come home empty-handed from an angling foray, even if you don't bring back any dead fish.

Best wishes on the water, kid. You've got it all in front of you. Make the most of it.

OC

[Steve L.]

Hi Keric, Welcome ! check for PMs with more info. The coastal rivers are all good places. Pretty too so any fish you catch are a bonus. One request, please use barbless hooks either purchased or smash down the barbs. Easier on the wild fish worth bragging about and the smolts.

[jfsfish2]

Welcome Keric!! The cutthroat go through small in my area. The tualitin has some very nice fish in the Fall and the Spring. I see them going through our creek in Fall and Spring. I used fish them but they are released so I am busy going other places. Check out the Tualitin.
jfsfish2

[Patrick L]

Welcome aboard.

Try the Necanicum river just downstream (about 3/4 mile) from the largest Sitka Spruce tree in the US. It took about an 1 1/2 hours to get there from Lake Oswego.

May want to look at:
http://www.ifish.net/forum/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=900867&an=0&page=0#90086 7

Patrick

[Ryan Pultz]

Welcome!!! rp