Salmonz

[stevejordan]

Was up with a friend for the weekend, SR was slow, we only played with a few in town and all the rest of the river was pretty dead. TON of fish were stacked below the hatchery. We went to Oz for the afternoon but they had already snagged all the fish at the dam, only saw 1 hook up in an hour. My buddy had one on a plug off the high wall but it came off, only saw 2 other hook ups on the wall, all on plugs. We took a drift boat trip yesterday with under the float guide service and had pretty consistent action trolling plugs which was awesome. Whacked my PB at 25 angry lbs! Highly recommend this guide, was a great experience (underthefloat.com if you want to look him up). Heres some pics, enjoy

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[kcritch]

Nice..great pics too. Glad you got into some.

[dakota560]

Great pics and sounds like you had a pretty good trip under difficult conditions. Everything I read says the water is insanely low up there, they need water badly. Do you know if the fish at the hatchery were mostly Kings or Cohos? It's been a couple very tough years for the salmon and especially the steel head fisheries in that area. I think they figured out the cause, hope they can correct it soon if it's something that's correctable as opposed to mother nature at work. Did you see any steel head or browns at all in your travels or just salmon? It's still early but there should be some of both in the rivers.

[stevejordan]

Thanks, didnt see any trout, just a mix of kings and hos

[JDTuna]

Very nice!

[bassnblues]

Looks like a fun trip.

[Mikey topaz]

Yeah we had same crap conditions low water more fishermen then fish guys, when u did see fish guys would just rip em lol estuary loaded up pretty good but with all the boats blockin the mouth of the river no wonder why fish are not running😂 Dakota we checked the hatchery too most of those fish steve has pictured were cohos nice and red. Sat nite they closed the lfz to drought conditions and make sure a good amount of fish get to hatchery for the egg quota thats when u know its bad

[njflyfisher]

Nice trip!!Saturday saw about a mix of kings and ho's running. Probably more ho's than kings. Also saw a guy get a little Steely and another guys said he got a 15lb steely but looked more around 10lb to me.