Here comes salmon season...

[rseas]

It's funny, for such a short river, there is a LOT of diversity. Big snaggy hole with skeeters, nice deep drift holes, long shallow sections with no main channel. I'm glad that my skunked, net filled, retard laden, trash gathering trip, was at least skeeter free.

Oh I never mentioned, when I went to the skok, I left with a FULL 13 gallon bag of garbage, and I didn't produce any garbage when I was on the river, so that was ALL other people's crap. It's by far the trashiest river I've ever seen.

Did this at Blue Creek a couple years back. I had stuffed a industrial 55 gallon trash bag in my vest and after a few hours of fishing I picked up trash on the way back to the parking lot, the trail looked great and the bag was full. The next morning I made the walk into the creek again and the trail was lined with trash again, there was even used pampers (squishy and full) about 1/2 way in. Who would have stopped along the trail to change their baby? No trash bag on this trip so I just stuffed what I could in to a plastic grocery bag found along the trail. Why would anybody just dump their trash along the trail? I rarely fish Blue Creek any more but the trash problem is evident every time I head that way.

[jens]

Thanks for your cleanup efforts bionic.

Jens, are you saying you don't have a new picture of a monster chromer to show us?......now what am I gonna look at to get my vicarious fishing fix?!

Nope. I suck at drifting/flossing.

[jens]

Ive also heard people gettin ticketed for calling out the fish. Not sure of any rule against this. Im gonna read the book again. And see if I can find anything on this.

I call BS. I called WDFW last year when some haters said it was illegal to do so when we were at Puke. One of our group was above us like a wingless angel telling us where the fish were.

Per the rep, no illegal activity was done.

[donman]

I havent seen anything in the regs or emergency rules about spotting fish. I think it's a big lie brought about by tree huggers and shirt lifters who dont want to see us succeed.

[donman]

The Skok is one helluva place to fish if you like wall to wall combat fishing. I need to head back up to the Sol Duc and hook into some up there where the fishing is hot and no one is around. This report comes from fisheyesoup.com . . .

The Sol Duc is in great shape at less than a board with 20+ ft of vis.

Some Summer Chinook are making a showing. Fish are stacking up in the deeper holes and small groups of tidal fish showing as well. Summer steelhead are sneaking their way in as well and stacking up around the hatchery. Sockeye are still making a very strong showing! Sockeye have been very fun this month with limits boated daily. You should give this a try if you are up for a great OP summer fishery!
Some of the deeper holes have been fishing good with a diver and Bait. Most holes are getting to slow for divers. Fish a #20 diver with a 5ft leader and any combination of Eggs, Shrimp, Sardines and Mackeral. Sit on the holes and wait for them to bite. You might also try to use some floats and eggs in the deeper holes.

Fishing is well, AWESOME!

[BentRod]

I havent seen anything in the regs or emergency rules about spotting fish. I think it's a big lie brought about by tree huggers and shirt lifters who dont want to see us succeed.

What's a "shirt lifter"?

[jens]

I havent seen anything in the regs or emergency rules about spotting fish. I think it's a big lie brought about by tree huggers and shirt lifters who dont want to see us succeed.

What's a "shirt lifter"?

I know what a skirt lifter is , but what is a shirt lifter?

[donman]

[lol] LOL [lol] , the opposite of a skirt lifter. My friend's great grandpa used to call gays, shirt lifters. Hope i'm not offending any gays here on the forums . . .

[flinginpooh]

I know that my cuz is no tree hugger. He witnessed the $500+ ticket being issued. I had heard from talking to other that they handed out a few of these tickets on Monday, Tuesday, friday, and saturday. Im not sure what happend this weekend, maybe theyre not as active when its overcast. Wed was really nice out, fish was active. Overcast not so many fish. And yes the skeeters are fierce. My arms look like I have track marks up and down them. Definately put on some spray and pray they are not immune to it. Cause They are thick and my arms are itching as Im typing this.

[scott080379]

Don when do you want to hit the Sol?...what are you doing Wednesday?

[donman]

@Scott - I wish I could go wednesday, gotta pick up my son from el aeropuerto. I wont be able to go for probably another week.

@Flingin - I know that people can't just be making this up. But I just don't see it anywhere in the regs. And Im too lazy to call F&W. If this is true and a warden was around when I was doing it Thursday, I'd be $500 broker. I think that is an incredibly steep fine for just saying, "Hey try fishing here, I see one hanging out!" There's alot worse going on in the world than persecuting someone for spotting a fish that's going to die anyways.

F&W is def not on our side, that's my opinion. I seen them walking around this week, and they look like they have a chip on their shoulders waiting for someone to just piss them off. I don't like fishing wondering if Im doing anything wrong with the possibility that a warden is hiding in the bushes somewhere seeing if im tying up any barbed hooks or casting 25 ft within the nets or fishing too early.

Like I said I didnt know about the spotting thing until someone pointed it out to me. Glad, this career criminal didnt get caught for spotting fish.

[flinginpooh]

Ok sat on hold for a bit cause of this damn calling out fish rumor. There is no law against it. They said there has not been any tickets for it issued. That there sees to be a rumor going around about it but its not true. So that info is straight from the horses mouth in OLYMPIA, not Joe Blow river fisher that heard of a guy that got a ticket. Also to those that heard you cant use just yarn on the river due to the selective gear rules. Horse crap as well. You can use just yarn. I have been hearing alot of crap this year when it comes to river fishing. Record numbers of fish bringing out record jack asses obviously.