The current weather report isn't looking particularly extreme

 

Where you seeing that? That looks more like what I’m seeing for tomorrow. Everything I’m looking at still says 17mph from the east today 🤷‍♂️
Only one way to find out lol

 

At CL now between errands. Stiff wind but I've experienced worse out here. I'll still probably try this afternoon but we'll see.

 

At CL now between errands. Stiff wind but I've experienced worse out here. I'll still probably try this afternoon but we'll see.

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When in doubt, Leeroy Jenkins.

 

Salmon success calculated at 32.3333%. Repeating of course.

 

Many of the weather stations in town on WU have essentially irrelevant wind reports, especially when it's from the east. Ducks Moorage and Paradise Cove on Fairview lake good ones if you want to know what the east wind is really doing on the water.

 

Fished 630 to noon Monday out of CL with a good friend and his son. Went 2 for 4 breaking a 6 trip drought! Might have been the good karma bringing along friends but a lot of thanks goes to all that post great advice and share their experiences.

 

@Bobber Downey Jr. - Boy, it looks rough out there. Stay safe and tight lines!

 

Net meeting on Wednesday The 17th.

 

still windy at 2:45 0, 4 1 so far . 70.8 degs .hoping for a Birthday fish, but I might of already had that chance.

 

Happy Birthday cowboy.

 

Brother in law & I each caught a small Chinook this morning below I-5 and Davis Bar. Wind made for a rough ride back to Gleason boat ramp around 11 am and cross wind at boat ramp made docking and loading boat a real test.
Good luck out there tomorrow!

 

3/6 today on 2 rods @ the DeadZone deadline including arguably my best fish of all time - size and quality. Had the rod in my hand for this take down.

Decent action all around but not on fire. Spinners outperformed stuffers.

Looks like we have a meeting tomorrow to hopefully keep the lower river open. Hoping for some good news.

 

1 23" Jack for the cooler, no real Birthday fish, but a Birthday fish it is.

 

🎂 Happy Birthday!

 

Well the wind wasn't unfishable, but the weeds were. Worst it's been since mid August. Managed to lose a nice URB while trying to solo net. Lost my balance on a big wind wave and that was that. Oh well, back at it tomorrow.

Edit:
I admittedly made that post a couple minutes before I intended to take out. Things happen sometimes 😂

 

Well the wind wasn't unfishable, but the weeds were. Worst it's been since mid August. Managed to lose a nice URB while trying to solo net. Lost my balance on a big wind wave and that was that. Oh well, back at it tomorrow.

Edit:
I admittedly made that post a couple minutes before I intended to take out. Things happen sometimes 😂
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Looks like a really nice meal happened

 

So, the weeds made it unfishable, but you caught a fish... how does someone catch a fish if they aren't fishing.

 

Prior to that I was fouled up within a minute every drop. I was actually effectively fishing a small fraction of the time I was out there.

 

Deadline good this afternoon..30 ft water. Mexican spinners

 

Fished deadline this afternoon..decent bite. 30 ft of water. Mexican hat spinners.

 

Music Video of day

 

Don’t have quite enough time to hit the deadline before work, but a buddy and I went downriver far enough to hide from the east wind that was howling at my house and went 2/2 by 0715. Still made it to work early.

 

Piles of fish on the sonar tonight. Only managed to wrestle with two and they both beat me. Have high hopes for big counts coming and an extension

 

This is good to see. Hope progress is made where I failed. I brought this to Pat Hoglund's attention a couple years ago, so hopefully others chimed in as well and helped get this moving. I don't think their proposed boundaries are quite sufficient and I suggested moving them all the way up to the 52 wing dam since the upper mouth flows East some years, like this year, vs straight out.

 

This is good to see. Hope progress is made where I failed. I brought this to Pat Hoglund's attention a couple years ago, so hopefully others chimed in as well and helped get this moving. I don't think their proposed boundaries are quite sufficient and I suggested moving them all the way up to the 52 wing dam since the upper mouth flows East some years, like this year, vs straight out.

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Hope it is not to late for this year , coho are moving in now.

 

Last nights troll, turned into a maintenance project I wasn't planning on OUCH. I was in the channel headed to port, up on plane but just a slow cruise. We never saw what I hit but thought I was ok till I pulled out at the ramp. taking today off to plan my next move.

 

Where did that happen?

 

First, glad everybody’s OK. That damage and repair is going to sting. Good luck😉

 

Davis 630-8 today. Found a non-committal group of following fish on the livescope again. Ran tight laps on them switching up gear, watch them follow and snap at the gear each pass till a jack hit a lady bug super bait and this hen slammed it as soon as it went back in the water again.

 

The fish wanted to see what a multiple-eyed mutant fish tasted like!

 

PSA: Someone's white truck with no trailer got towed out of the boat parking area at SBM. Hopefully it didn't have a trailer connected to it when he parked it 😬

 

fished out of langsdorf 6-830ish. Weeds were terrible and as soon as it was getting better, I dropped my rod and reel in the river. If anyone drags up a okuma cold water low profile with half of an ugly stik, please message me. Saw lots of boats catch fish today.

 

Great way to wrap up the current season opener! Fished 4 rods from 0600 to 0930. 9 hits. 6 hooked. 3 landed. 2 tagged. Released a dark native coho. We had our chances, but just couldn't convert. We didn't see a lot of fish on the LiveScope compared to last week.

The guy pictured is outfishing me :-(......