Salmon River Report DSR 9-20-07-Fishon!

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2007/09/21 10:07:59 (permalink)

Salmon River Report DSR 9-20-07-Fishon!

Holly Salmon is all I can say. Myself, scudbug and TB went for a ironman trip to the Salmon River in Pulaski, NY. Conditions were forecasted as  being bad for fishing (low flow, sunny and warm). We arrived at the DSR and the conditions were as described. We immediately thought we'd be in for a slow day. We could not have been more wrong. At 9:30am all hell broke loose and we watch 100's of coho and king salmon run up river. I estimate between 9:30 am and 2pm we saw anywhere from 500-800 fish atleast. We ended up hooking up with over 150 fish between the three of us. We landed approxiately 50% of them. Most averaged between 10-25 pounds. Hot flies were Woooly buggers, estaz eggs. I fell bad because one of our cohorts T*****-T** was stuck at work riding his gov't desk. I spoke to several old Salmon River salts and they all said this was the best day on the Salmon River in 17 years. Man did we hit it good!
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    upnorth
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    RE: Salmon River Report DSR 9-20-07-Fishon! 2007/09/21 10:44:45 (permalink)
    Glad you hit it good, but I'm having a hard time swallowing that a sportsman fishing wolly buggers and estaz flies would have a box of dead fish as his ID picture...especially if they are of the variety of your screen name.  Sorry, but imo that's poor taste, dude. Just my take...but again, glad the fishing seems to have picked up.

    -Up^
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    RE: Salmon River Report DSR 9-20-07-Fishon! 2007/09/21 11:33:13 (permalink)
    Hi UP^!
    How have you been?  I trust all is well.
    I hope to meet you on the river when there is a river again...
    Take care & check in often-
    Salmo

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    RE: Salmon River Report DSR 9-20-07-Fishon! 2007/09/21 12:45:38 (permalink)
    Up north, my picture is the smoke box at poor richards. In my life I have caught many steelhead an have never kept a one. I don't support keeping any steelhead. It's a joke that you can keep 3 even. I hate the fact that people profit on them. IMHO I believe that the smoking operation makes it too easy for people to keep them. Sorry I don't have some dumb picture of a chick holding a steelie in a bikini. Fishing was great.
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    RE: Salmon River Report DSR 9-20-07-Fishon! 2007/09/21 12:50:38 (permalink)
    It is too bad people can't see the sarcasm in your efforts Catching Chrome.  I think the fact that we caught over 100 salmon yesterday and never kept one is a testiment.  And they are going to die anyway...
     
     
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    RE: Salmon River Report DSR 9-20-07-Fishon! 2007/09/21 12:52:50 (permalink)
    Congrats on the great day fishing.............    Makes me jealous 

     



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    RE: Salmon River Report DSR 9-20-07-Fishon! 2007/09/21 12:56:39 (permalink)
    It was good!  We were fortunate enough to be in the right place at the right time.  It was funny to walk into some Pulaski fly shops afterwards and hear them giving advice which was so far off of what we saw...
     
     
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    RE: Salmon River Report DSR 9-20-07-Fishon! 2007/09/21 13:03:28 (permalink)
     Fished the upper end of the river on 9-16-07 and there were not to many fish to be found anywhere. You really had to work to get any fish. We went to the estuary and there were quite a few fish and also quite a few rippers. Do you know if the fish are still down at the estuary as well.
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    RE: Salmon River Report DSR 9-20-07-Fishon! 2007/09/21 13:36:21 (permalink)
    Don't you mean flossers?
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    RE: Salmon River Report DSR 9-20-07-Fishon! 2007/09/21 18:40:07 (permalink)
    Up^:
    man you been lurking lately..
    still coming oct - 1 ?
    don't bust the dude for keeping his catch....if thats what it is?
    as long as it goes to use and within the limits i'm cool with that.
    anyway, i headed up the thruway to work this morning @ 2am and thought keep going , fish are there but alas with all the hub bub i figured everyone else would have the same idea.
    going to stick with my plan and hit the ponds sat & sun for brookies
    this internet report thing is cool but finding solitude is utopia , to quote "flyguy" aka chrome....

    Catching Chrome:
    kudos to getting it on with the salmon
    thats what it's all about , making dreams come true
    my bad but i think you ma be a little high on your average wt.
    seemes to me 8>12#'s seems about the avg.
    with the honker mixed in now and then.

    be well all and maybe see some folks the first week of oct.
                                                                         Peace & Tuna
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    "whats that smell like fish oh baby" .. J. Kaukonen
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    RE: Salmon River Report DSR 9-20-07-Fishon! 2007/09/21 19:57:30 (permalink)
    Hot Tuna,
    We caught a mix of Kings and Cohos. I had my 30# boca grip and of about 20 or so we weighed that was the average. I am sure we had some smaller but they seemed to be all the same size. The fishing really was intense I'd say between 10am and 1 pm at any given time I could see atleast 10-30 fish infront of me. As for keeping my catch, I almost never keep one. The pic is of fish to be smoked at PR's I disagree that they will sell the service of smoking with exchange. It just rubs me the wrong way.
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    RE: Salmon River Report DSR 9-20-07-Fishon! 2007/09/21 21:56:53 (permalink)
     where is good clean loudging near the upper for couple fisherman ? last year we got skunked with our spinning outfits in the upper pools while watching you flypole  guys clobber them.. Hoping this years trip again later oct. is luckier for us trying catch and release salmon brown steelhead!
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    RE: Salmon River Report DSR 9-20-07-Fishon! 2007/09/24 12:12:06 (permalink)
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    As TB pointed out, sorry I didn't pick up the sarcasm in your photo...should have...I'm one of the most sarcastic blokes you will ever meet. Anyway, no offense intended...just me bustin' balls. I do that now and again just to stay amused. Thanks for the report. And we share the same views on C&R. No problem with the occassional fish kept (I do it too w/ salmon only) and Tuna is right. If the rules are followed, let it be. Sometimes the rules suck, especially if they are not made in the best spirit of the resource.
     
    Salmo and Tuna -
    Lurking a little, not much. I've got the bug pretty bad as I always do this time of year. Plans are still in tact for next week, arriving late Mon 10/1 and staying through the week. Bummin' about the water, but we take what's given and make the most of it. We will be tying in some wing shooting on this trip as well and are quite psyched about it. Let's see about sharing some stories and beers next week. Let me know your schedule...send me private email addresses to do it off-line. Tuna, do you still have mine?
     
    Skip -
    I yearn to be the tail of that dolphin. Wow.
     
    Good fishing.
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