Hang in there Clint........ Full moon coming on the 7th thru the 8th with a full lunar eclipse occuring in the wee hours of the 8th. This is the Hunters Moon but, will also be a Blood Moon.

If the fish don't move on the night of the 7th and morning of the 8th they ain't comin'.

Fish and animals use the lunisolar calendar. In order to keep the lunar year aligned with the solar year a 13th month must sometimes be added. There are 7 thirteen-lunation years in a 19 year cycle.

WHAT???....... Anyone else have a better explanation of why the fish are running late? :-/

Good luck to all and to all tight lines.~ BTDT..... said that

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

My tank finally ran empty today. Midnights totally kicked my azz last night and I'm having a hard time leaving the comfort of PJ's and the king size bed.
So much to do and so little time now.

Sure wishin I was fishin and sharing those chats about this and that. Going to be a long rough week here .
Hope you folks do well on the water .

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.

Me too 3man. Maybe I will get a shot on Holloween .
I bet you daughter enjoyed every minute :)

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???

Lots of Steel being caught on small nympths on the swing....but not by me! Had one Steel on today before it shredded my tippet on some rocks,later played with a small brown about 20",then played with a couple Kings but landed nothing.Sunday evening I had 3 Coho on and landed one.Tomorrow going to look for new water to thrash!DSR was dead today according to what I was told and others that fished various parts of river had nothing positive to say.
Rich so far you have n't missed anything great on the SR this season.

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

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

Absolutely the best part .  RG, I'm wondering  about the feed bag, myself. Less biomass in the river to keep the steel fat and happy. On the other hand, nymphs may be on the menu more than eggs. That and smaller fish.  I saw my first October caddis on the river. I'll fish some big pupae next time. 

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. 
 
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