Anybody ever fish the Satsop river?

[270Shooter]

I might be going to elma on tuesday or wednesday with my friend and he wanted to do some fishing while we were over there, and the satsop river looks like it could be good. Is there a lot of private land around the river? I'm just looking for a place to catch some trout, so if you'd like to give me some info I'd really appieciate it.

Thanks

[BigGoonTuna]

not very much access, but might not be too bad right now with the low summer water.  be careful with those "trout", most of them are steelhead smolts(i know there are some nice cutthroat in there though).  you probably won't see anyone else fishing until the fall, when the hordes of people off the i5 corridor all converge there for salmon season.

don't leave anything of value in your car, lots of tweakers in that area(especially around schaffer state park).

[270Shooter]

Sounds kinda like a bad area then. We would be using barbless hooks as we wouldn't be keeping any of the fish. I kind of thought access might be tough to get.

[grousetracker]

the salmon are in the chehalis right now, you could easily hook a salmon or two. i walked down to the chehalis two days ago and could see atleast 5 salmon in the pool. they looked good though.

[bowtech721]

the salmon are in the chehalis right now, you could easily hook a salmon or two. i walked down to the chehalis two days ago and could see atleast 5 salmon in the pool. they looked good though.

salmon is closed in the chehalis as far as i know... im almost positive. there is access to the satsop right off highway 12 just west of elma and there probably wont be anybody there fishing but theres sometimes people down there swimming or something when its hot

[fishcrazy]

I would drive just a few min. and hit the nooche for a chance at a summer steelhead.

Kris

[270Shooter]

What do they use for steelhead in the nooche? Sorry I've only fished for steelhead in drano with shrimp

[BigGoonTuna]

the regular crowd down there are bobber/jig fishermen.  been pretty slow from what i've seen so far this year.