Live on the water report. Marking lots of fish Cape Horn and down. Saw nothing with the floatilla at 50. We are 1 for 2 on Skinnies (Hab, my favorite, and RB). Really beautiful, but smoke filled canyon. Wife just said we lost the fish at 66. Going back up. Really weird fishing a Saturday. Haven't done that in years. Where did all these people come from? jc

 

Ran back up to Cape Horn. By ourselves. Fish still there. Took about 5 minutes on the Habanero Skinny. 35 on the LC. My wife is being a meany though and not allowing us to fish for non-existent Coho. She says we are done. Oh well. I'm getting to really like that pink, panty dropper. Obviously, the fish like it too. Great day!

 

You were both quite excited! I'd have shared the excitement if I was capable of showing emotion 😂 I was also on a five fish losing streak since yesterday so was in a bit of a downer mood when you gave the woohoo!

 

We ran an experiment today. Went 2/3 at the deadline this morning - 9/20. We ran a bit downriver of the actual deadline but we did not fish the mouth of the Lewis where we took this photo. If anyone saw us out there, you know.

We’ve were getting them good at the deadline earlier this week so we decided to run that same program and avoid the crowds. Paid off.

Experiment:
All (3) bites came on a spinner. Exact same blade on all (3) bites. We switched one blade repeatedly and the same one kept getting drilled. We even switched the same blade from a red body soft-spinner to a pink body soft-spinner and they followed the blade to the other side of the boat and then back again! Everything else was identical down to 1/4” - rod, bumper length, flasher, leader length.

Opinion/Conclusion:
Some days, color matters. Tons of fish around. If you aren’t getting hammered, change your blade every 20 minutes until you find one they like. Run it at the bottom for 20 minutes and switch it. If you’re in 30’ FOW, multiple fish have seen your gear. If they aren’t biting, they don’t like something.

 

We were in the sameish area, 3 adults on spinfish, 1 jack on a spinner. Bite seemed to die off at around 8:30/9, so we bailed to head to kids sports 👍

 

Last few days have been good, 3 fish total out of CL and out at Davis. Good luck to all on the 'last' day tomorrow.

 

Only got one today, unfortunately it was the Ram 1500 instead of the Spinfish 3.0. Nasty ramp surprise but it looks like it still cut well.

 

Fished Davis last night 4-7:10pm. Sucked sucked sucked. Water still hot at 69.9F in spots. I blame the hot water. Weeds were kinda bad too.

Fish didn't want tuna or spinners. Saw 0 caught.

 

I was out there as well.0/0 Marked a few but they seemed to be on the move and uninterested.

 

Fished Davis last night 4-7:10pm. Sucked sucked sucked. Water still hot at 69.9F in spots. I blame the hot water. Weeds were kinda bad too.

Fish didn't want tuna or spinners. Saw 0 caught.

Fished Davis last night 4-7:10pm. Sucked sucked sucked. Water still hot at 69.9F in spots. I blame the hot water. Weeds were kinda bad too.

Fish didn't want tuna or spinners. Saw 0 caught.

Man what's the deal with Davis this year?? Love fishing there as it's close to we're our boat is. But man seems on the weak side !

 

tough year there for sure. WE blanked on Saturday and that's probably going to be it for me. Crazy good season last year and never had to travel far. this year, not so much.

 

Fished Davis last night 4-7:10pm. Sucked sucked sucked. Water still hot at 69.9F in spots. I blame the hot water. Weeds were kinda bad too.

Fish didn't want tuna or spinners. Saw 0 caught.

Fished Davis last night 4-7:10pm. Sucked sucked sucked. Water still hot at 69.9F in spots. I blame the hot water. Weeds were kinda bad too.

Fish didn't want tuna or spinners. Saw 0 caught.

Man what's the deal with Davis this year?? Love fishing there as it's close to we're our boat is. But man seems on the weak side !

Last couple years have sucked. They added those new pilings and barges and screwed it up.

Water is still way too hot. Should be 67-68F by now and I can hammer fish. Just strange this year.

Now it's so close to duck season, not sure I will get out again.

 

Fishing was really good the past couple weeks so it's probably not the water temp. Dam Flows have been up and down since the reopener. I'd guess thats got the fish off the bite and the weeds flowing again.

 

Yes... That is an excellent point. I have a guide friend I was chatting with a few weeks ago around the same topic. I could not figure out why so many fish were going through and not biting. He had me check the graph on the CFS. We were noticing the level going up and down with the fluctuating flows from BPA. As soon as the leveled off the fishing was better.

 

When we started fishing Davis a number of years ago, it was always the bottom end along the barges in the 20' to 30' water to the lower dolphin. Then our neighbor taught us to fish the deep water up high, starting above the Tidewater tug moorage. We now set up before we get to anything and troll down to the green buoy. We are banging the bottom in 50'+. Changed our game there. I also think the new pilings changed the bottom end for the worse. Just a thought. jc

 

They also dredged the bottom end of Davis near the barges this Spring/Summer. Seems to have changed some of the travel lanes.

 

Fished first light to 11 am caught our limit of chinook and a bonus jack we went 4for6 pretty good bite for us did not see very many nets around tho . I will say livescope has definitely helped put more fish in the boat and glad we got it! from seeing exactly where your gear is to seeing fish in your gear and not committing and switching lures out to get them to react. My crew always has a huge laugh and high fives when we do see fish come in our gear and then the rod buries . think that might be a wrap for this season . Unless they extend it .

 

Wellllll…… might as well throw in the towel…..

 

Dead slow yesterday evening at Davis from 130-445. Saw one fish caught and one other lost. Didn't mark very many either.

 

Fished Davis a little later than Little Tank, 3-5:30. Saw one boat at a distance doing something with their net beside their boat. Releasing a wild one? Otherwise it was a fish desert, didn't mark one.

 

Davis water temp yesterday?

 

My Garmin was showing 69 point, something (.7?).

 

Fished 3 rods yesterday, launched as Camas and started around Rooster. Lost one towards boat, moved up to Dalton, small Jack so went up further to Beacon. Hooked into two nice bright fish right away and put them in the kill bag. My almost 74 y/o dad caught his first salmon, so soon as we got that fish, it was a successful trip as far as I was concerned. Extra nook was a welcome bonus.

Good way to wrap up the season (assuming things stay closed).

 

went out to washougal saturday. didn't see one boat land a fish, but we got our limit around 10ish. had a problem with my battery charger for the trolling motor, so i started at 35%. after i got down to 20%, i switched to dragging bags and using the big motor. didn't even have a sniff on the TM, but when i switched to the big motor, bang, bang, done for a buddy and myself. found that a little odd, but whatever! didn't even do a half pass. 2 nice URB nooks.

 

You guys might have a point with the water flow. I plotted my September hook ups vs Bonneville flow. Less flow was better except for my outlier Friday night. I've always heard that but never tracked it closely.

Funny how they jacked up the flow last weekend. It wasn't even that hot Sat & Sun so why all the electricity needed?

 

You guys might have a point with the water flow. I plotted my September hook ups vs Bonneville flow. Less flow was better except for my outlier Friday night. I've always heard that but never tracked it closely.

Funny how they jacked up the flow last weekend. It wasn't even that hot Sat & Sun so why all the electricity needed?

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They do the same exact thing in the springtime for all the re-openers.