IT'S ON!!!!!!!!!!!!

ALRIGHT........I'm on my way!!


Wait...... what......... wrong board??...... heh heh...... sorry.... thought Clint was talking about the eyes of Pymie.:-\

GO GET EM CLINT...... FISH ON!!

Gonna miss it . May those fish all frequent the secret spot just for pafisher ..

DSR post confirms that they ran pretty good. Dime's post on the Facebook did not state a huge run, but they were into fish.

Hope the fish  continue like ya say Charlie. Would be nice to have some cold water upriver kings into Nov.
Hope all you fisherfolks can get up and have some decent fishing.
Might be that a lot of unfortunate folks have already used their vacation time and after a couple of weeks it isn't as crowded as during an earlier run.
Report says they are still coming in this  morning.( likely ran all night IMHO)
Good luck-----

Well the DSR reported a slow in action today.
It was on as far as getting stuff done today. Got my 15th cord of wood in, just need my emergency 2 stacked and I am set.
 
Plow truck from hell hit me today. Smog pump seized and shredded the belt. Need to take the alternator off to change it. Bolt head stripped out. Welded multiple nuts on and it finally broke off. ENDED UP CUTTING THE ALTERNATOR OFF with a sawzall. On to the smog pump, same scenario, bolts stripped and broke CUT THAT THING OFF TOO.  Took the aluminum bracket off that holds it all on with all the broken bolts in it.  Buddy will take it to work and heat it with a torch and try to save it, if not need a new one. Hopefully I can reroute the belt to eliminate the pump. Hate putting money in it, but the driveway will not clear itself. My buddy did all the heavy stuff so he bailed me out big time.

Well it was not on today, after the late night I went to bed with nothing ready. Got a late start. Fished from 1000 till about 100 had 1nice steel on and lost it after a tussle. Played with a ho and had a few kings on and off. Did not see jack even though he walked right by. Went up to the corner and he Glenn and I had a good long chat about this and that

Closing the job at Selkirk today and got one hour to swing at them before I had to be home and try and teach my 10 year old daughter how to ride a bike. I hit below the root and fished it hard for an hour saw 3 fish go by and saw no fish on out of 20 guys in sight. Will say after the guy got out of the middle of the river at tail of root I was able to get up and fish the seem and saw all 3 fish come and stage there, if he was not there I would have been able to get a taker, this is the latest time in 30+ years I have not landed a salmon.

Will be in SR  country Tues PM and staying for a few days- looking forward  to Golf and campfires more than the fishing- Never thought I'd say such a thing.
At this time of year to have a very few sneaking in and only one push- lousy-to say the best.
Sad commentary.
With the possible exception of a very late run ( a real run- not a push or two) its  late enough for folks to start wondering what the heck happened.
In a season where Hos were predicted to be very low and poor showings of Kings gotta wonder if the lack of eggs will affect the Steel.
Without the regular great feed will they go out and return in the spring to spawn or find very  little food and stay anyhow???

Jack , the only thing I really miss from the river is sharing good times with good people.

r3g3 gotta wonder if the lack of eggs will affect the Steel.
Without the regular great feed will they go out and return in the spring to spawn or find very  little food and stay anyhow???

At least one writer in the last few months has suggested that Steelheads hanging below salmon are more interested in the insect larvae that are dislodged by the movement of the gravel to first create the redd depression and then bury the eggs that have settled into it.  Between caddis and stoneflies the SR is loaded with food items, so I can't see them starving.  A lot of the reports have indicated small nymphs for the ones coming in now.  We've always thought they moved around in the river, and in smaller tribs we've seen them head back out to the lake when the water dropped.  But the open water is not exactly a feedbag, and the nearshore in winter is inhospitable to everything except scaup and snowy owls.  The steel can live on accumulated fat and protein, same as the salmon, for the winter, as metabolism drops way down, spawn and then turn back onto food as the water warms and they have thinned out and darkened up into the drop backs everyone will be after in April.  And the eggs are pretty well gone a few weeks after the salmon, and they found things to eat in past years, so I don't think the chrome are effected, unless their numbers are doing the same thing R3G3 sees happening to the salmon. 
 
L13

I'll definitely agree with you on that one, R3.  When you look up the river and every hole has someone playing a king in it, it has got to be a lot easier for a brown or chromer to find its way through the gauntlet, and then find a spot not so "friendly" to the salmon to hold in.  I don't think there are necessarily more trout running early this year, but they are conspicuous in the absence of a lot of the salmon.  I am wondering why we've heard nothing from DEC, but the reports indicate that the hatchery has fish, so they may see numbers in the river as secondary, and the hotels are booked solid whether the fish are there or not.  Does anyone know if egg taking has started yet?  Are there fish cutting in the upper river, hens with 2-3 bucks working the gravel?  It might still just be late. 
 
However, I talked to a guy who lives above the Genesee gorge and walks the Seneca Park pedestrian bridge daily, and he says he is seeing spent carcasses coming down river with the gulls working them, which says things are already well along in a river that is usually 2-3 weeks behind the Salmon.
 
L13

A lot of thoughts here from someone ( myself ) who has not seen the river.
Could it be a sparse number of salmon then previous ?
The lake reports I have been givin and found on my outings have indicated fewer mature salmon . Lots of alewives and some say too much out there. Hence they ( boaters ) want increased chinook stockings, all this due to a down season mind you .
Again in my adventures out there I found the kings sparse , the one steelhead we caught had a full belly of emeralds , and it was a small fish. The boaters did well on trout , bows & browns, maybe to well ?
I don't think the trout will go hungry as to L-13 pointed out on fat reserves or the fact of the amass of caddis, stonefly in the river. Once they make it to that critical stage ( close to spawn) the salmon smolts and other minnows will fill the slot per and spring to keep them healthy. The only unhealthy ones will be on ropes, coolers and grills.
My hope is that folks get their fill of salmon kicks for the year and leave the trout for the next guy.
I'm looking forward to a Holloween adventure and my last vacation day will be spent 11/10 for a few days during vets .

Good luck to all that weta line, I'm back to sawdust before much needed sleep .

Water Obstruction WORK!
 
L13

Sux 13!
 
I should also have mentioned that even below town all the kings I saw were greenies.
No nickle brights mixed in.
These fish have been staging in the lake until they decide to run.
Plenty of water since I never happened to see any moving.
They were just there suddenly after fishing blank water for 20 minutes or so and then 20 minutes of fish and then blank again.