9/1/12

Well I had to work today, but I flew up after work as I wanted to buy some hooks for tying so why not give it a few casts.   Today I parked at the staircase and walked down.  I will say I am the slayer of chubs, but nothing else.   Not even 1 fish seen.  WE NEED RAIN BAD.

Some remnants of the hurricane are heading north. Not much, but maybe some. Dismal stuff, but thanks anyway, Clint and Dime.
I hope the fall gets wetter. Nothing like a cold, drizzly day with a chance of  flurries in the evening to make me think STEEL!
 
Charlie

Does n't look like there is enough left of Isaac to mean much,I don't see anything in the long range to mean anything either.I'm waiting for a few more days and if nothing changes I'm cancelling my trips for Salmon.If this goes on there is n't going to be any quality fishing at all this fall.
I look forward all year to fight the King and Coho and this happens.I hope they're happy that they made a couple kayakers happy,dumb asses should have never released all that water with no snow pack!

twobob,this is what you will find if conditions stay as they are.First off yes they will come but they won't go very far as there will be a trickle for them to swim in.The hordes of GOONS will be lined up shoulder to shoulder at every hole,as that is the only place the fish will be,slashing and yanking at them,the fish will be scared ****less and will hit nothing no matter how well it's presented and none of the fish will be caught legally.
You did n't say if that was Sept or Oct that you plan on coming,if it's Sept there may not be as many GOONS as Oct so you MIGHT find a place to actually fish ethically then,but I would n't bet on it.If you come in Oct you might want to try the DSR as they try to keep control of the GOONS down there.
Lets all pray for Leslie to hit the east coast and drench us!

Just give me a tranquil lake in 4 days and I'll be happy.
River was very quiet as expected today. Threw some stuff in the memory bank for trout toady.

Guys its not so doom and gloom here.
Last year was a fantastic trout fishery and I would have to expect the same going forward.

I'm leaving to camp in the Moose River Plains on Wednesday.  That pretty much guarantees rain Thursday through Sunday!
 
l13

pafisher to be fair to my friend he did say that at the time he was talking thet did change the flow for short periods during the week.
he did say i should suck it up and pay to fish in the dsr.
he did say the holes even down there would be crowded with as he called them sight fishers.
but he did say to find a spot between holes where from a bit back you couldn;t see the bottom and salmon woukd rest there giving me a chance to fish to them.
he said these fish are the most aggressive fish.
 
with all this talk about drought and no fish running does the dec ever consider pulsing the water a little bit just after dark so the fish could move upriver a bit towards the hatchery before the "GOOONS" as you call them can slaughter them? or just the opposite and run it a little more during the day making it harder for those ripping at them and then dropping it at night to save water to run the next day.
prolly a reason but i'm just learning so i don't get it.
why should they run it super low or as high as they can 24  7.

Too funny big bear...twobob, bear is right about dec having no control...and even if they did, there is no water to pulse it up at night. They may have to shut it off completely if things continue this way...on a brighter note, i just checked the weather underground forecast for redfield and this evening through thursday evening is full of scattered thunderstorms. Sometimes these storms can isolate certain areas and dump heavy rain in certain areas of isolation...2" an hour storms sometimes...so we may get lucky andpick up some slack for the res...but then we are folllowed by a dry week next week...so i guess we'll see. I could care less about the salmon at this point...the reservoir coming back to a sustainable level and the unfortunate folks without water i think matter more...the salmon will come no matter what.

hot tuna

A spurt of kings coming through estuary right now.
Guys are lined up on side channel below rt 3 bridge and hooking fish off the bridge. Seen 4 landed

As a few of us have been saying the salmon will come no matter what...

Thanks for the streamside report RJ

;)

It lasted about an hr then the more guys that came the less fish moved through.
Learned something though. The bait of choice was some sort of small floating orange egg with 3 heavy shot. Seems the fish are hitting off the surface.
Must be the hot bait as everyone was using them.

Funny thing:
2 kids with their dad & pops were fishing off the sweet platform using bobbers & worms. They were having a ball catching fish on every cast.

Rich,some small floating orange egg with 3 HEAVY SHOT,the fish were hitting off the surface?How was the bait on the surface with three HEAVY SHOT?
What species of fish were the kids catching with bobbers and worms?
I'm watching Leslie on the weather station,thought maybe she would soak us in a week or so,but it looks like it's going north to maybe above Maine,east coast will get some heavy waves.The only hope now is sustained thunderstorms but it's not looking good.

The water is 3-4 ' deep. Sinkers dropped to bottom , super bright orange egg to surface. I know the theory ;) . Just never stood on bridge and watched in action.
Go figure .

Rt it was nothing like how you fish the lake from shore.

i understand that there is no water now.
i was guessing that at some time there would be though.
it was then that i was talking about.
why not pulse it to move the fish at that point?
i know the power company is in control not dec but from reading other boards i have seen they are having a meeting so dec must have some inout.
they also issue the license for the power company so it would be in the company's best interset to listen to dec if the bottom line was not effected too drasticly wouldn't it?
 
 

hang around while the same conversations happen year after year and then you will have your answer grasshopper :)