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Mmmmmm fresh bumper chrome springer, damn a nice early one too, i bet someone got their fat kid on last night at the grill hey smossy my boat aint ready yet, maybe we need to drive down there and bank it
A buddy sent me a pic yesterday of a springer he got so I grabbed my gear and ran to the river to meet him and give it a try and right before dark my pole got hammered and I landed this 17 pounder. My first one of the year and theres nothing like that first springer. The one my buddy got was also 17 pounds. Cant wait to go do it all over again
hey SG, they been in downtown Portland for 3 weeks, its a blood bath right now, and the cow has been warming up, right now if you dont leave with a springer youll leave with a nice metal head
Smossy & irl, what area do you 2 live?
Quote from: Kc_Kracker on March 21, 2013, 02:58:36 PMhey SG, they been in downtown Portland for 3 weeks, its a blood bath right now, and the cow has been warming up, right now if you dont leave with a springer youll leave with a nice metal head A bloodbath for what? Springers in P town area? Its dead as dead. And there are very few Steelies showing in the Cow. Very few...
Quote from: wildmanoutdoors on March 21, 2013, 03:07:27 PMQuote from: Kc_Kracker on March 21, 2013, 02:58:36 PMhey SG, they been in downtown Portland for 3 weeks, its a blood bath right now, and the cow has been warming up, right now if you dont leave with a springer youll leave with a nice metal head A bloodbath for what? Springers in P town area? Its dead as dead. And there are very few Steelies showing in the Cow. Very few... says who i have buddies doing VERY well for a few weeks. the steel has BEEN in the cow
The Cow is a ghost town for steelies. Even Clancy and Ron Holt have cancelled there trips as of this week. Slowing down? Its not even near the peak. Some are trickling in but its far from good. And far from were we should be by now. The numbers are way down from years past and were it should be for this B run. They released over 500000 smolts but there not here. Im not saying dont go. A slow day fishing is better than a good day at work. But fishing is severely slow overall for either run. Period!And the Big C is no where near a bloodbath. Here is Mondays reports from the Oregonian...Here's a Monday afternoon update regarding spring chinook in the lower Columbia: Test netting — There were 16 drifts made on Sunday in the Wahkiakum and Cowlitz portions of the river with a catch of three spring chinook and eight steelhead. Two of the chinook were lower Columbia-origin salmon, while one was headed for upstream of Bonneville. One of the three fish was wild. Among the eight steelhead, five were hatchery and three were wild. This is not the ratio of chinook to steelhead that state managers like to see prior to a commercial fishery and the chinook per drift is — obviously — very low. Dam count — Twenty-two adult spring chinook were counted Friday at Bonneville. That was the first double-digit day this year. The cumulative count through Friday is 68 adult spring chinook and one jack. Sport fishing — Washington sampled 2,348 anglers with 82 adult chinook and one jack, which is a fish per 28 trips. All but one chinook came from boaters. Seventy-six percent of the catch were fish headed for upstream of Bonneville. In the estuary, 123 boaters were sampled with 13 chinook kept and two released. Between Warrior Rock and Kelley Point, the numbers were 293 boaters with 11 chinook kept and four released. Between Davis Bar and Portland airport tower, there were 550 anglers sampled with 21 chinook kept and two released.
Im saying it never got good yet. You do realise there are 2 runs? It was ok to pretty good for the A run. (smaller, earlier fish. And now we are waiting on a B run of Big fish. Which should have started showing and building strong 3 to 4 weeks ago but hasent.
i caught 15-17 wild one on the big river and lost a toad on the cowlitz...prolly fished for a total of 9 hours wont catch em at home...btw smossy an kc, good luck getting a spot on the cowlitz,it seems fishing is very popular this year
Well I went back out last night tthe river had dropped again and the only action I had was about a 5 pound sucker fish. Even the guys who had been there all day said they never seen a take down all day. And no smossy we werent using cork and yarn. Ive been just running a spin glo with a prawn or sandshrimp and then slidding down a cut plug herring its worked really well for me the last couple years I usually average 12-16 fish a year wiith that setup.
The interesting thing about the Internet fishermen is that usually the majority of people who post reports are the ones who caught fish. I know plenty of guys who wouldn't go on a forum and let everyone know they got skunked or had a slow day. When there are loads of people fishing, of course you're goin to get reports of people catching fish, but if you look at actual catch rates... It's usually a different story. Smossy, my usual crew has me full for most of the halibut season, and with a good spring bear tag in my pocket I'm going to sit some of the openers out.
As am I, its much more helpful than the guys just getting on there to brag.
Some of you guys may know the guy i fish with, if you are on gamefishin or ifish he goes by Born To Be Wild, he has been banned on most of the sites he frequents because he is passionate about the fish and fishing and he rarely will see the other side of the argument and ends up getting himself banned. But he has been one of the most helpful people when it come to fishing on the river. He has been giving me reports of no fish. Or 1 fish, it has been very slow. He lives on the river so i wait until he calls me and all he is saying is slow. And he fishes the Cow a lot.
By all means I wasnt really posting that pic to bragg I was just excited to get that first one of the year under my belt. The fishing on the cowlitz has been very slow and I put in a lot of hours the last couple weeks and the most I seen was 3 steelies in one day so it is definately far from being hot right now
Nice springers right there. I'd take one of those over 5 steelhead any day. Good going.
