Any Coho reports from folks fishing above the falls on the Willamette? I know the counts have been low, but I'm curious what folks are seeing.
I may not be the sharpest tool in the shed but we will have slow fishing until some coho actually get over the falls. Otherwise all there is to catch is smallmouth and pikeminnow. Last year may have been a real fluke with the big numbers. Hopefully not but we had a lot of fish above the falls by this date last year.Slow fishing, bite still needs to improvement.
Nice. Might go to a #3, pink body nickel blade for the daily win. Straight up nickel-nickel and copper-copper have their time and place also.found one today. Throwing a #4 blue fox. What I learned today was, if it feels like your bass fishing (throwing into cover) you’re probably doing it right. Tried pulling maglips for a bit but no dice.
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I think we run the same exact boat other than the colorLast Saturday I dragged my boys with me at 6am and we struck out. Nobody wanted to go with me today so I slept in and got there at 8:30 and ended up with two 6ish pounders, a hen and a buck. Caught both on pro-troll/spinner setup, 6oz lead with 25' on the line counter, going about 2.25mph. the first one was fun, it jumped right behind the boat and then immediately smashed the spinner.
I felt fortunate, didn't see much action for all the boats out there. These are the only pictures I took since I was by myself. Had to show my wife I'm not totally useless.
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