Kiss Springer hopes goodbye fer a while!!

[Ty]

You guys can forget about your springer's fer a while untill the water gets way lower.

Studies have shown that springers back way out with high flows and cold water.

Springers are the opposite of fall fish, the warmer the water gets the more they go, and the higher it gets they back off from movin.

[Fshklr]

March into April and May is best anyway..this will have little effect on our springer runs if any.
Tight lines :grin:

[fish_on]

I remember last year during the times when the river was blown a group of guys with orange sauce cleaned house fishing very shallow water.

[5-Cents]

Shudup :shocked: :shocked: :grin: :tongue:

[David Johnson]

What Ty is saying is right, radeo tracking of springers on the Willamette has shown that during high flows the fish back down river.

[Bounty Hunter]

You know, with this start I just keep thinking back to the late run in 2002 when ODFW and WDFW got scared that the run was going to be low and shut down fishing on the Columbia for a week. Then record 5 digit Springer counts occured at the end of April and beginning of May as we sat on the sidelines and watched. One of those days saw 25,000+ fish over Bonny, which was more than any single daily Fall Chinook count (for that year).

http://www.cqs.washington.edu/cgi-bi...nddate=12%2F31

[ 01-29-2004, 06:17 PM: Message edited by: Bounty Hunter ]

[ZaQ]

DUSTIN!!!!!!!!!! Quiet yo mouf!

I want to catch a Springer.