Sandy and Clackamas Rivers

ORoutdoorsman · 01-01-2004, 12:33 AM

I was wondering if anyone was having consistent luck on either the Sandy, or the Clackamas river so far for winter steelhead? [img]graemlins/1zhelp.gif[/img]

TAILOUT · 01-01-2004, 06:23 AM

Yes, there are plenty of fish in both systems from the top to the bottom.

SteelieSteve · 01-01-2004, 04:54 PM

Good luck getting there in this snow and ice mess. Gresham is a mess on the side streets per tv weather reports. All those hilly roads going up the Sandy will be very nasty. Oxbow :shocked: . Be careful out there.

traskriverhouse · 01-04-2004, 08:15 AM

Do you have any information on the pipeline hole?

ANDYCOHO · 01-04-2004, 04:03 PM

What sort of info do you want on the Pipeline Hole??

PM if you want to know where it is and how to get there. As for fish being caught? I drive past the parking lot every day and have yet to see a fish being carried out, but that doesn't mean too much....

Navigator · 01-04-2004, 10:02 PM

Fished the Sandy today for about 3 hours in the afternoon. River is running cold and clear.

A fisherman I talked too said he heard of one caught upriver (he did the Dodge Park to Oxbow drift). There is talk that there are fish in the Sandy system - but I have as yet to see one hooked and have done nothing myself. Today I drift fished - pink and metallic blue corkies w/ white yarn and some roe. Fished good looking water - I am just thinking it is just too cold and that even the dumb ones aren't biting. (But that doesn't keep us dumb fishermen from trying).

Nice day - saw blue sky, the sun - but was it ever cold. Ice in the guides.

Lots of bird activity - varied thrushes, flickers, buffalo heads, kinglets and one lone meganser. And of course, Herman.

Corkie Monster · 01-04-2004, 10:34 PM

We banked it last night for 2 hours at Dabney. Did'nt touch a thing. Talked to someone waiting for their shuttle who drifted down from Oxbo, said they brought two nates to the boat.

CM

andy-ap emerger · 01-04-2004, 10:35 PM

kind of out dated but hope it helps...
SandyR on the fly w/ two handed rod

Christmas eve am= 2 (one was VERY nice!)
Christmas day (actually evening)=1 skinny clack looking snakey thing
Dec 30th=1
dec 31st am=0
jan 1st pm =0
jan 2nd=0
jan 4th=0

I'm going to stop for a few weeks & wait it out again. I think I'd just run into a lucky spurt.
uh...errr wait. What's that mean???

articulate leech · 01-05-2004, 10:29 AM

I'm new at steelhead fishing but had some success earlier this (last) year on the Kalama and the coast. Lately I've focused on the Washougal with eggs (and a luckless day of using spinners) and I've been skunked repeatedly. It's probably just me, but I wonder if the water's just too cold for the steelhead to be very active. andy-ap emerger's idea seems to make sense: will waiting for warmer water increase chances at fish?