Northwest Fishing Reports

I have been blessed with the opportunity to spend A LOT of time on the rivers the last few weeks, and it has been paying off quite nicely! Been picking up a few early Silvers on the Stilly system by pitching spoons and spinners into slow moving pocket water. A lot of the fish have been small, like 3-4 pounds small but the other day I got a real nice buck that didn't even fit in the cooler. Watch him follow the spinner out of his hiding spot. Casted in the same spot and boom! Of course the Humpies have been plentiful and at times a bit annoying. It doesn't seem to matter what lure is on the end of your line, if its in the water there will be a Hump on the end of your line. With the rains a few fresh Pinks are still trickling into the lower river, although its almost October, which means targeting Coho and drooling of the upcoming Winter Steelhead.

Wow Nice chrome indeed. You'll be eating well this week. No more soup lines for you. Hehehe

How do u like your okuma sst? Interested in buying one. I'm leaning toward the 9.6" medium lite. Thoughts?

Found some coho today! Although not all that Chrome really. Three for me two for my daughter, the location is blacked out to protect the innocent.

Bmastro777 wrote:How do u like your okuma sst? Interested in buying one. I'm leaning toward the 9.6" medium lite. Thoughts?

I just bought 4 sst-s-862m which is this 8'6" med and i really like them. I dont know if i would go much light then that though. The extra foot would be nice for float fishing. As far as the strength, I have done the bass master fling with a humpie and it didnt snap

Where did u buy them? I see them on ebay for $85 after shipping. Id use the 9.6" for float fishing, might pick up a 8.6" casting rod for spoons too. Those are all great fish btw! I have yet to catch one on the sky :( so I might try the Green next...

Have any of you ever caught a hatchery coho on the stilly?

primetime wrote:Have any of you ever caught a hatchery coho on the stilly?

100% wild run

I caught a hatchery coho last sunday on the stilly.

It's the coho on the right

wierd.... any one have any info on this?

As of 2/25/13, WDFW predicts a return of 3066 hatchey and 33100 wild coho to the Stilly. What ever the actual counts are who knows. But they are hatchery in there.

4steelhead wrote:As of 2/25/13, WDFW predicts a return of 3066 hatchey and 33100 wild coho to the Stilly. What ever the actual counts are who knows. But they are hatchery in there.

Thanks. Wonder where the hatchery is? Fortson or off Harvey creek maybe. I fished the stilly for years and never heard of hatchery coho there

primetime wrote:I caught a hatchery coho last sunday on the stilly.

I'm not 100% sure on this but it could be a wondering coho from another river that decided randomly to go up the stilly with the school of fish it was traveling with, I've heard of that happening before.

Did i hear... Chrome?

Ill do some digging but I thought the ESSC started a hatchery on the North fork of the Stilly but could be wrong. I do know they took over one a few years ago and started running it. Ill ask the powers to be and get back to you.

And there goes Danny! Haha

Looks like the cascade (kiddie pool) has been pumping some fish out again

Nice!!!

Whoa, Cascade limits already? I had friends that were up their that morning, they said that it was so hot that EVERYBODY limited, even the newbies with bass rods!!

Shes not chrome, but she was real fun on a Steelhead rod!