nisqually river

[fernsjd41]

Just wondering if anybodys doing any good at the nisqually?

[WSU]

Tons of fish, and an almost equal number of mouth-breather tweakers fishing for them!

[BigGoonTuna]

bring good bait, and when they go on the bite, it'll be lights out.

i bought some first bite marabou chinook jigs a few weeks back and gave them a try on sunday.  they're like a steelhead jig, except about the size of a baseball.  went 4-6, and outfished my dad and his buddy.  i almost couldn't believe it -- i'd never caught a king on a bobber/jig setup, and never thought in a million years that they'd outfish bait.  i'm gonna have to order some more come payday.

we weren't fishing in the snagger zone, we were in the tidewater in a boat.

[WSU]

Chinook jigs work even better when tipped with prawn.

[fernsjd41]

Went lastnight after work saw couple y guys hook some and loose them next to me , no luck for me might try latter on next week.

[crow360]

I am looking for a place to go fish on the river. Any ideas where a good start is?

[brokenvet]

Most people who do not have access to JBLM park their car along mounts road / old pacific hwy as close as they can to the bridged and walk across it to the south west of the river,  there is an area for the public on the south east and there is parking there as well.

Police patrol the JBLM side and check for military ID or affiliation and an access permit from range control.  With out those you will be asked to leave,  Not sure if they are issuing tickets for trespassing, they have done that in the past. 

[wraithen]

Most people who do not have access to JBLM park their car along mounts road / old pacific hwy as close as they can to the bridged and walk across it to the south west of the river,  there is an area for the public on the south east and there is parking there as well.

Police patrol the JBLM side and check for military ID or affiliation and an access permit from range control.  With out those you will be asked to leave,  Not sure if they are issuing tickets for trespassing, they have done that in the past.

They usually won't issue a ticket but if they do it's because of where you're parked. If you're drifting then the pay to play area isn't bad. If not then float your eggs down by I5. If you have your access pass park in front of the downed tree that makes kind of a curb in the woods where about 7 cars and park and walk down the trails. There's 2 bobber holes down that way. One of them you need to know where it is, the other just stay on the main path and you run into it. If you get lost, pretty much every path will lead back to the parking area eventually.

[BigGoonTuna]

it's sad, the nisqually never had much public access and about 50% of it was lost about 4 years ago when the railroad company put a rock wall and gate up below the trestle and the campground owner started charging for access to fish off the gravel bar above the trestle(i still can't figure out how it's legal, being that it's all below the normal high water mark).  a few years before thurston county made the entire stretch of on their side of the old pacific highway bridge "no parking", despite the county seemingly putting in wider shoulders for the fishermen when they rebuilt the bridge in 1998.

[wraithen]

it's sad, the nisqually never had much public access and about 50% of it was lost about 4 years ago when the railroad company put a rock wall and gate up below the trestle and the campground owner started charging for access to fish off the gravel bar above the trestle(i still can't figure out how it's legal, being that it's all below the normal high water mark).  a few years before thurston county made the entire stretch of on their side of the old pacific highway bridge "no parking", despite the county seemingly putting in wider shoulders for the fishermen when they rebuilt the bridge in 1998.

They are just charging for driving priviledges on their road. If you know some of the codes at the gate they don't rotate them very often. Never been asked to show my receipt there, but I've never gone by myself. I can't stand watching the flossing in that hole. 

[Bofire]

BN owns it and blocked it off, county had nothing to say about it. I am glad they did, litter, party pukes totally screwed it up.
Carl

[BigGoonTuna]

that i can agree with.  i can remember when you needed a 4x4 to get back to the upper gravel bar(which ended at the turn-off above the trestle before the big flood).   the local riff raff turned that place into a real dump over the years.  one of the last times before the railroad co gates went up and the campground owners posted the gravel bar, i was fishing just above the trestle.  there was a young couple hanging out a couple hundred yards above me with their toddler.  about 5 minutes later here comes a dirty diaper floating down past me   some people need to be thinned out of the gene pool.