nothing to report?

The best time to go fishing is when you can.  And at this point, the run is on, and what you find one day or another is just up to chance.  If you want just mint bright cohos-7-10 lbs, either go to a fish market or stay home.  As Wader Boy used to say before he was banished to the cornfield "Ya pays ur ticket and ya takes ur chances!".
 
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lol
is this about to blow up into a spoonfeeding thread!?!?!

great report uf.
were there a lot of people mid river where you fished.
yellow and peach.
now i have to tie yellow and peach.
i always seem to have what they wanted yesterday or are going to hit tomorrow.
 

Id be there tomorrow with a crew that's heading up, but I have some father duties to take care of. Alot of fish spread throughout the river with mini runs happening all over. If you have the chance to breakaway during the week go for it, less people and more relaxed fish. Some salmon are starting to spawn which means more loose eggs drifting around for the trout. It is worth the gas money, go man!

Coho's point about  'mini runs' is well taken- when there a few days ago it did not happen to me but fellas around who had stayed put over a day or two most all had good reports of occasional nice pods working up. guess I kinda missed that as I moved around a lot.
  good luck -turning into a great season.

Hey Bob- fyi- the pod of upriver Hos I bumped into last Thursday were already getting  pink on their sides..still silver  and not gettin dark but just a nice light pink color on the sides--nice.
 Kinda think this trip I'll be sticking to the orange and blue colors  since the beds are gettin hotter and some  eggs may be rolling.
 Last time it was still a bit early for that and the dark colors seemed to work best for Kings and pink for the Hos -whatever reason-never know  till ya try---
 Good luck.

   Hope to have half the luck I did Saturday /Sunday headed up tonight through Friday.

twobob:
 You musta kicked all those fish up river today (well maybe the ho's did) as they were moving and not just holed up like yesterday..
 
In 3 days fishing I put 1, yes ONE salmon on the bank.. Not for lack of fish and not lack of players it was just a GREAT time for me to spend the days with some GREAT folks from here, this site..
They were the river masters..  Everyone of them caught fish, EVERYONE of them good fishermen and people, that was my reward..
 
Fishing report:
I was totally surprised at how many fish survived the low water and onslaught of people in the lower river.. YES there are plenty of fish top to bottom..
We never fished below pineville, never even thought of going down in crowd town.. We never had to share or compete with other anglers.. Heck at most all times it was just us and fish without a soul in site.. The fish moved in force just before evening making fishing at times insane.. During the day mostly they would hole up and you really had to work for the players..
LOTS of redds and LOTS of feisty males..
It was an AWESOME time all around for me..
My salmon season 2012 is compete with only 1 fish to gloat about here..
Good luck to all ..
See ya in late October..  

Tuna, nice report man and it was good to see you rivamasters the other night. Glad to hear you guys found some of those hohos today. Isnt it a satisfying feeling to know your salmon season is over in september??? I think your post is a shear example of fishing being more than just catching a fish... theres a lot more to it than that. Im glad you guys got out and enjoyed yourselves despite your low water concerns earlier on....this fishery is incredible folks...ENJOY IT!!!

thanks for the update.
i thought it was just because i'm a rookie.
i feel they have been beating me about the head and shoulders with a ball bat.

    Thanks guys- have lotsa respect for your abilities with the fly rods and am sheepishly pleased we enjoyed some of the same 'issues'.
  Also wondered about the diff between natural and 'hatchery' fishes- not just the earlier  entry to the river but if that also indicated some other strengths or weaknesses and aggressive behaviors.
   They are certainly laying eggs well before the hatchery does their thing so it may very well be that some kind of similar but different fish is slowly emerging here.        
     Biologists may well differ with that but we on the river are seeing something a bit different lately.
     IMHO at this point I think there may well be some differences. Never had so much play outa Kings- specially in low conditions.
  Also started out light- 8 lb Drennan and slowly worked up the leader strengths till I got to 14 or 15 lb. Flouro.
   WHATTA year this is startin out to be---3 more days an back--lol

nice fichy.
 
my main problem losing fish was line getting cut by rocks.
since i try to not have to chase them down sometimes i see my backing also.with the lower water i found my tippet sliced clean on a number of occasions.
ok reading that makes me see that the main reason was that i don't chase fish which causes a long low angle to the line making it suseptible to rocks.
 
truth be told i landed all my fish by keeping them fairly close by not bullying them but rather starting with a more gentle approach letting them lose a bit of wildness before rapidly changing rod angle keeping them trying to figure out where the pressure is so they could work against it
i have a pic of one tug boat approaching 30# by my eyeball scale that never got more than 40 or fifty feet from where i hooked it.
trouble is i like to show them the butt and have them go crazy and that is a formula for failure. butt fun.heehee

They all started from a hatchery and whether spawned in the river or spawned in the hatchery they are all wild after living in the lake for most of their life.So far I have caught all fish with a fin.

twobob

after last year i had seen enough.
i haven't even checked this year.

nothing to go on except gut but i think this first slug was born in the gravel in the river.
no mistake with the trailer.
just a very good survival year for the parr-smolt.
i think we are see what keeping a little extra flow makes a huge diffence to the natural presence.
if clipped fish don't start showing up in number my gut is just big not smart.

Dsr was loaded with unclipped fins yesterday ;) i saw no unclipped fins at all... i have been keeping a very close eye on it

Edit on my last post: DSR had all CLIPPED fins on thursday