Funny! Can I use your story in my book Roy (with name credit if you dare
). -- Excuse the sidetracks Cureless Mike, I figure there may be more so I will suggest some bank holes quickly here: The Trask run is earlier than the Wilson so with lack of rain I would expect Trask tidewater holes to be the best bet right now, especially for fresh fish; some of the more urgent greying ones have skinny water crawled on up the river and should be left alone to spawn. If you don't mind getting up real early and fishng in a bit of a crowd, fish the Hospital Hole (out 3rd street just past the hospital on the right thru the pay gate and down the road a few hundred yards to the huge deep hole with fishers there. Floatfishing eggs and shrimp is the norm but spinners deep flutter slow retrieved will work also (try Blue Fox Vibrax's in size 4 and 5, silver with a blue body - many good colors work). Another place is the 101 take out hole (both big 'Nooks and, after the river comes up a little, driftboats take out there
) just a couple hundred feet above the 101 brdge over the Trask. Access it from the south side gravel road in. Some have success fishing up and especially down from the 5th Ave. launch parking lot. Others who can find a parking place do real well in the "Ditch", a Trask tidewater channel (better let you research how to get there and not post directions here). Another very good couple of bank holes are up near the nursing home. The one around a corner a couple hundred yards downriver from the 101 bridge is especially good. You will be competing with boat anglers there however, but that's your right and guys do it successfully. Another excellant hole is accessing the railroad bridge hole via the tracks on the south side a ways above 101. There are others to find. The lower Wilson tidewater, which will get a few Sept. fish, comes on better in Oct. However, much to the delight of those that get in there, the tidewater there is difficult to access because of no parking on Makinster Rd., Chritianson's crane launch no longer operates (still?), and because the floods have shallowed many areas of the lower end of tidewater and deposited deadhead stumps along in there too, making it a "fun" skinny jetplane ride up there on the upper half of the tide; it accesses across and down a bit from the upper bay's Memaloose ramp. Fishers often do well using the same tidewater tech.s from the bank fishing the upper bay saltwater tide near the Cap Johnson stretch a ways below Memaloose. After the rains, the rivers will fill with fish on up throughout the systems, with a lot of bank access. But you'll be in your driftboat by then, right
. - RT
[This message has been edited by RT (edited 09-29-2000).]
No boat coast
Always wanted to try it though. One of those good ol boy stories I have heard of when the wardens didnt care about a fish.
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