Washougal river help!!!

[quackkiller]

Well my buddy and I are down in camas working all week and were gonna give the washougal a shot, doesn't look very convincing considering all of the people swimming and floating, was wondering if anyone had any advice on where to go/ what to use, want to try and catch chinook or steelhead, any help or advice is greatly appreciated! Also any other places decent to fish down here right now, hope everyone is having a good one!

[ELKBURGER]

I know steelhead are running good in the columbia and should be hitting the washougal anytime. What is your work schedule?

[quackkiller]

The work schedule is 7am to 330pm, do you think there are any in right now, or a good chance to catch one? Or any idea how to fish em? Saw the water is Purdue low and slow... Thanks for replying

[ELKBURGER]

I know they have been picking them up at the mouth of the cowlitz, and in the N fork of the Lewis. There should be a little action in the columbia at the mouth of the washougal as well. Im not sure of the resource, but you can look at the fish counts at bonneville dam. They count daily and post to public....salmon and steelhead. If the counts are good then you know they are that far up river and moving in numbers.
As far as how to catch them....im no expert, but there are different methods. Plunking a spin and glow seems to work well. Different colors dependent on weather, tide, depth, and what the fish want at that moment. If you can find someone local, I'd say ask them for specifics.
I hope you guys can get out and pick some up. Good luck!

[quackkiller]

Hey thank you for the information! I just looked at the fish counts and it looks like there's great numbers of steelhead running through the bonneville right now! Gonna give a shot to plunking after work, hope it goes we'll considering my buddie nor I have ever tried plunking lol

[WSU]

I have never done it but try this setup: http://www.ifish.net/board/showthread.php?t=361519

[quackkiller]

I'm going to do the same set up but just 1 spin and glo and a piece of sand shrimp, hope we at least we have a hit haha

[ELKBURGER]

Good luck to you guys! We want to see pics!

[quackkiller]

We'll didn't turn out very we'll, got all of our stuff geared up and ran up to bonneville dam to try and plunk for steelhead or a king. We'll we had medium action rods and about 6-8oz of weight.... Haha not a good idea, splintered my Lamiglas and we only caught a squawfish or pikeminnow, oh we'll, such a good time lots of laughs my buddie and I had about fishin that part of the river with not the right rods haha, packed up and headed home! After we stopped at Lamiglas to exchange my rod for a new one!

[ELKBURGER]

Im sorry that didn't work out better for you guys. 

[quackkiller]

Ah maybe next time lol, we're up in mt baker and mt Vernon this week so gonna try out the samish river this week and maybe a few lakes... Know anything about the river at all?

[ELKBURGER]

Never fished up north. Good luck to you!

[quackkiller]

Ahh alright, thank ya!

[WDFW Hates ME!!!]

Wish i would have read this earlier.

You can fish bonneville with your set ups, i would have told you where to go and i only use 3-4 OZ of lead up there. Let me know next time and i can direct you to a better spot.

[ELKBURGER]

Jeez Chris, where have you been hiding?