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| Weldon Walshe with a chrome steelie, 2nd cast of the day. 10/22/2011 |
Have spent the last few day targeting steelhead and have not been disapointed. More numbers daily but still have to find them. I have found chrome in most of the traditional areas but not all areas holding day to day. This means that they are on the move and need to see the runs increase. The upper area of the river, Altmar to Pineville, is producing more consistantly. This is early in the run for steelhead so as we move into November I expect the numbers to increase through out the river. Also, still alot of salmon, most are looking a little beat up, but have landed a few fresh, clean kings in the last few days
We are getting fish (steelhead) and many are good sized fish. We hooked, and lost, a brute yesterday. I did get a couple good looks at it and I would guess it to be in the 14 -16 lbs range, would have liked to have slid the net under it.
We have had best success on blue egg sacks. Tried beads and flies with some success but eggs are the ticket on these fresh steelhead, blue eggs. Have picked a few on pink and chartruse, but blue is tops right now.
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| Good selectoin of egg patterns, need to hit the tying bench. |
Fly patterns to use are Glo bugs in Oregon Cheese with either pink or roe dot, solid cherise and solid orange roe. Sucker spawn (the fly) is also a good choice. I also do well with a purple estaz fly tied with a short chartruse poly tail and a set of bead chain eyes. The same estaz pattern tied in butterscotch estaz with a red or bright orange poly tail works good too. All my fly fishing right now is indicator fishing although I'd guess that swinging an Intruder or a Moal Leech would work on these fresh fish. Getting good results with indies fly fishing the head of runs in fast, oxygenated water. Lastly, for both spinning and fly fishing I am using 6-8 lb test florocarbon P-Lines.
The rowing seat is a great place to be this time of year. If you want to fish from the seats in front of or behind the rowing seat, give me a call.
