finally a springer

[Kc_Kracker]

Smossy & irl, what area do you 2 live?

[wildmanoutdoors]

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 

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...

[Smossy]

Smossy & irl, what area do you 2 live?

Together in Spanaway/Roy

[Kc_Kracker]

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 

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 

[Smossy]

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 

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 

Even the reports say people are nailing steelies in the cowlitz, Its slowing down but they are forsure there. I want some silvers! Nomnomnom

[wildmanoutdoors]

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.

[Smossy]

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.

I didnt say it was over, I just said it was slowing down i.e. meaning not that many fish are being caught. lol
Thanks for all the official stuff though. Whens is they're estimated "peak"?

[wildmanoutdoors]

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.

[Smossy]

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.

There's a-lot I don't realize, My brain has a very limited capacity to retain/remember information. Im great at catching them, Im just not great at remembering when they show up exactly 

[Austrian Hunter]

 

[kentrek]

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

[jackelope]

Cleaned this one up. If there's some sort of gamefishin.com rivalry or drama spewing over onto here between a few of you, I'd suggest leaving it on gamefishin.com.
I guess you can call that fair warning. Leave it off of here.
You know who you are.

 

[Smossy]

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

Yeah cowlitz is packed almost everytime Ive went down there. When I cant find a spot me and my girl usually will walk around and pick up garbage. Hate it when Im tripping over friggen braided line all day. I fell in the river at the carbon one time because of that crap. Floated down alittle way, Good thing my buddy snatched me up by the straps on my waders or It could of been bad.

[sirmissalot]

[Smossy]

Not funny lol Still waitin on you to take us out for them flat fish bro!