Good outing Clint, really glad to hear  you got into them.

Good to hear you' re able to get out and abuse your upper body again!
 
Up in the " Zone"?  Did you have to get there at 3:30 and take headlamps out of the branches to get a spot?

Lucky13
Good to hear you' re able to get out and abuse your upper body again!
 
Up in the " Zone"?  Did you have to get there at 3:30 and take headlamps out of the branches to get a spot?

Nah it's really funny that alot of folks really dont know the water. I am a novice at best but I have fished there so much I know most the seams. I literally had100 feet of really good water to rotate up and down on. The trees above my head were a pain but oh well. There were many fishing very "stale" water.

Straight forward Clint. Glad you got a few tugs and put one in the net.
Someday I'll fish again

I went up today for the last 1.5 hours of daylight. Did not see a single fish hooked , not even a splash. Not even from the "usual" good places. FWIW there were a few folks who it looked like did not have a clue as they were standing chest deep right in the middle. To each their own.

Have had some fine fishing days standing behind the belly button deep conga lines  and high lining in back of them where the fish are really running.

We've been up there a LOT this fall, I missed the salmon because of my finger injury, but since Columbus day, I've been in Pulaski about as much as I've been home, and my odometer shows it!  Twobob has characterized it as the worst run he has ever seen, worse than the thiamenase years when we at least encountered fish early, before they started whirling down the river.  He has landed one steelhead, and played a couple more, I've landed two browns, and had maybe three chromers for very short contact, and one beauty that, when I got the flyline back on the reel, I broke off because she was dorsal hooked.  I have seen bobber doggers get bit when a pod goes through, but the pods are small (sometimes one fish) and few and far between.  And therew are fish ijn UFZ, but you've got anout 5 legal hours up there until April. An Article in the latest Great Lakes Angler says fall runs are getting later, and I've heard at least a couple of folks blame this year's lack of fish on the small run of salmon contributing a poor egg load to draw in fish, but the 4000 cfs a few weeks ago should have brought a lot more than what came in.  I'm  hopeful that they show up over winter, or droppie season will be very limited, and who knows what we'll see in 2020, which will be the first 20% redux in 3 year old kings, with a 36% redux in 2 year olds. 


Randy Jones will tell you that everything is fine, but we've heard from quite a few other guides that things are way off.  But if you want to go up, no problems getting a room this year.

Am resigned to the fact that SR fishing -in my life time- will never be what it once was.
Yes- they come in to eat the eggs but it aint like they have a newspaper to tell them eggs are there lol- its an instinctive movement learned over generations.
Might think that the annual Fall push is all we have seen, which might mean the long trickle to follow wont be all that impressive either.
Sad.
( as usual hope to be proven wrong)
Can say what they want about fishing pressure but I got rooms ( 2 each trip) on just a couple of days notice both trips this Fall -first place called both times too. THAT used to be impossible.

L13, you've missed the best and now its the rest. Why don't you think I spend times in other places. I haven't been in 2 years now.
Keep cutting the stocks and it may be 20 years.
Pretty sure i could go hook a few if i wanted, but more fishers than fish, i really don't want.
Once the wave is over ( on the net) i will be back.
Probably still see pukerbush creek, creep

Well today wa as much better, there were a few around to play with. I fished from 8 until 230. I would guess I had around 10 on during that time. I got 2. One time I had 3 casts and 3 fish on. They came in spurts. Some fought like a boot and some were hot. There were even a few nice silver ones jumping around. You had to work hard for your takes. All were on little green nymphs, that's all they wanted from me. I can't figure out how to post a pic from my phone. Maybe HT will enlighten me LOL. Same guy standing chest deep today , ruining it for those above him. The people across from him did ok though. One guy fishing a float 2 feet above his fly. When you see stuff like this do you guys say something or let it be. I would want to know, (if said in a nice way) if I was doing something like that. I would be afraid I would get an earful if I tried to help so I just let it be.