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Carbon River Fishing Reports

Posted: 9/5/2012
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/1/2012
Hot Spots: 0
got to the river at 4 am. found out i needed a parkin perment to park where i park every year. so drove into town and walked the mile or 2 down to the river. fished for 4 hours and nothing. hooked int...
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Posted: 9/4/2012
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/3/2012
Hot Spots: 0
The Carbon was very slow on Monday (9/3/2012) compared to Saturday (9/1/2012). Saturday, we got to Orting at about 4:30AM and found out that we were late... so we parked about 3 blocks further away t...
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By: procaster
Posted: 9/2/2012
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/1/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the opener with a buddy. Started at day break at treatment plant. We saw a few fish waking but no hook ups. We walked alost all the way up the the hatcery and saw no fish so called it a day af...
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By: procaster
Posted: 1/9/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/9/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I read that the river is gonna close on the 16th so I figured I would go down one last time. There a few people down there trying to find a steelhead before it closes also. We all had the same resu...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 12/21/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/18/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Sorry this report is late. Been slammed at work and with holiday stuff, back to the report. I am new to fishing for Salmon and Steelhead in this area and was pointed to the Carbon for both. I know th...
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By: procaster
Posted: 12/11/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 12/11/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I went searching for that mythical creature that you only here about in stories called the Carbon river steelhead. No luck though. I did have one take down but it was mrs. chum and I lost her after...
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By: Ted G
Posted: 10/31/2011
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/29/2011
Hot Spots: 0
So fished a large section of the river, worked my way from the sakte park to the creek. Had a couple real nice hook sets along the way but fishing light gear I wasnt able to turn them out of the fast ...
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By: procaster
Posted: 10/27/2011
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/27/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished my usual section at/below the treatment no fish other than a nice dolly about 3lb. I took my fly pole but caught the dolly on my spinning rod with corky yarn. I tied the fly tried to make a f...
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By: Ted G
Posted: 10/24/2011
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/22/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Tried the Carbon for the first time on Sat. Hooked several nice sized fish, but fishing 12 and 10 I couldnt hold em in that fast water. Fishing up by the hatchery. Saw some really nice fish come out. ...
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Posted: 10/14/2011
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/14/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Tried my luck at the Carbon and boy was it slow. Didn't see any fish rolling at all. Water level was much lower than a couple of days ago.
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By: procaster
Posted: 10/14/2011
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/13/2011
Hot Spots: 0
There is still no silvers at all in the Carbon. I caught a dark one on sunday last week and that is the only one I have seen all year. Yesterday I parked at Calistoga and Train street and walked alm...
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By: wdavis10
Posted: 10/11/2011
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/11/2011
Hot Spots: 0
got there mid morning saw 3 humps on the bank - I wouldn't have kept them, they looked nasty. used every thing I had but no fish - lots of humps doing the back stroke and friend caught a king w/ the p...
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Posted: 9/29/2011
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/29/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Had a few hours after work so I hit the river tonight. Caught three in three hours, not to mention the four that got away. There are still lots of fish in the river.
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By: Toni
Posted: 9/29/2011
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/29/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I got to the river about 8am for the first time in 2 years. It had changed a little bit. I got 3 humpies that were released in the 2 hours I was there using different colored corky and yarn. I was, o...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/27/2011
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/23/2011
Hot Spots: 0
friday went to the carb at 200 pm my 10th cast i cought a nice 7lb silver and on my neet cast i cought a 10lb king i had a good day of fishing.
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By: Alex36
Posted: 9/23/2011
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/22/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went to the carbon yesterday. got there at about 4pm left at 7pm landed about 9 fish using corkie and orange yarn with about a 6ft leader. 3rd fish hooked was this silver. probly about 30in. really bi...
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Posted: 9/22/2011
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/22/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Spent the day looking for pinks, silvers, anything in the carbon river....not a bite a single bite.
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By: procaster
Posted: 9/19/2011
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/19/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished sunday from 3 to 5. Still pretty slow, maybe about one fish per five people or so. No hoho's yet. I took the fly pole and caught 2 pinks. Fishing is probably better today with all the rain....
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/15/2011
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/14/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing is slooow on the Carbon. Fished last night for a few hours. and caught a couple pinks but they were pretty dark. Didnt see any fish caught by anyone else. Still seeing Orting Police patrollin...
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Posted: 9/12/2011
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/11/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Took my 10 year old daughter down to the river today to catch her first pink salmon. I threw the corkie and yarn then handed her the pole. She caught one on the first cast! Unbelievable!!! We caug...
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Posted: 9/11/2011
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/11/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Well.there's definitely some fish in the Carbon and I caught quite a few like the other guys around me.I had a guy walk up and tried to help me to learn how to floss fish like he was doing. hmm,told h...
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Posted: 9/10/2011
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/10/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Had fun this morning. Things were going good until the combat fish started. Otherwise have lots of fun. Watch where you park in town or you'll get a tic Ya called orting P.D. they have a lot of place...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/7/2011
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/6/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the carbon for a couple hours last night. Saw a few fish rolling. Saw no fish caught for probally 30 fishermen. On my way out saw a Orting policemen writing tickets. Tickets were on every car ...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/6/2011
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/4/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the carbon a few times over the weekend. Caught a few pinks. Just a warning, City of Orting is ticketing cars parked in the housing developments. They have a parking area set up by the water tr...
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By: ahess52
Posted: 9/5/2011
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/5/2011
Hot Spots: 0
had a pretty good day today. Got on the river around 6ish behind the waste water plant in orting, and it was slow for the first couple hours. Pinks and kings alike were rolling like crazy, definatle...
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