Welp... hit down low for an hour and a half. No cohoes showed themselves but managed to hook a few wild Chinook. One was a solid player and it lost the battle. A high 20's wild female. Water warmed up noticeably for the first time in two plus weeks. I saw a few dead ones for the first time since they've been running. Luckily weve got cooler temps coming before the weekend to cool things off a little before the circus comes to town. Fishing is good. little movement this evening in the waters I targeted tonight. Probably a result of the warmer water.folks shouldn't expect to come up and have salmon at their feet. Its definitely time and place and knowing when and where to target. Have fun

Very nice Db.. So with what seems a fair amount of early fish in the low water, what do you think will happen when they give that traditional release ?
Well besides the ppl invasion . Lol

Good to hear from you Dime. I fished yesterday and hammered the kings. Didn't see any coho. Caught and released 12, lost a bunch to rocks. Tuna the cool water and on shore wind seem to be the only drive for these things right now. With another cool down coming hopefully it'll limit the floaters that were starting when I left at 3 yesterday. I fished up by Haldane btw.

Thanks tuna... funny you ask. As it usually does, it should suck a good amount of fish in. The past two weeks have been a west wind and it has been pushing closely staged fish towards the cooler river temps. Friday night is a shift to a NE wind and cooler temps... wow, could make things happen pretty big by bringing those deep fish in close. Its gonna be a killer season in to September I imagine.

Two Bob... I'm still holding down my original prediction from a month ago...what do ya think????.... ;)

hot tuna

Very nice Db.. So with what seems a fair amount of early fish in the low water, what do you think will happen when they give that traditional release ?
Well besides the ppl invasion . Lol

 
I'll have a crack at that............they're comming with the water,after all don't they always do that every year,don't they?
 
PS: the fish and the people will come ............FISH ON!

Hook, what's happening bud??? Our posts ironically posted at the same time. We're obviously on the same page

Read a post today on another forum indicating the release at the end of the month may have been cancelled very recently. As I recall this happened a month or two ago too. After all that rain early guess its been dry lately.
 Looked at the schedules myself and see that they havent been updated in a few weeks and could find no 'new' info--anybody hearing that ???
 Personally was kinda looking at a few days after the release for a trip.
 Have been able to just drop and run for a long time and this new house thing is really fouling up my fishing picture this year.

Trev, I haven't heard of the cancellation.. I haven't heard of or checked the reservoir at all but water tables have lowered locally at first sight just about everywhere. My bet is they're coming soon even if there isn't water (as a lot have already come)...

Well they canceled last years release due to a drought that lasted into mid season.
While I have no clue what the reservoir looks like but if they are hurting then someone needs their head examined or pull it out of their azz. Absolutely no shortage around here even with the short break we have had without any. It's coming again soon.

So db, I don't care what you have to do but kick them back out to the lake, at least until I'm done on tues.. I'm still not quite ready to SR fish yet ( to hot ) but sure as heck can't wait to lake fish :)
Yes , I think after the day of our Labor it will be full blown game on ..

Even with a lower table  the res should be in great shape compared to those LOW levels last season it was full up a couple of months ago when last there ( late June sounds right).
   The only real issue one may think is weather there is enough to run decent  outflows while they maintain a res resource.
 Heck- last season was so bad they barely managed those VERY minimum outflows.
 Nuts weather lately.
 Like the man said -they will come----