Tahuya River

[seansfire]

My lady and i went for a drive yesterday and came across the mouth area of the Tahuya river. We stopped at the bridge on North Shore Road and saw a gate with a private property sign next to it but also signs for fishermen to realease cutthroat.

We walked way back in there and the dirt road follows the river and i am just curious to know if anyone out there knows if that road is open to fishermen or is it trespassing? Noticed in the regs book it says that river is only open from the bridge at north shore 1 mile upriver. Seems like that dirt road might be the only place legal to fish there.

Hope everyone is filling your catch cards this year and having a good time doing it.

[seansfire]

nobody on here knows anything about the Tahuya river? Really ?

[BigGoonTuna]

i know it used to be open for silvers but i'm not sure if that's still true.  i've never fished it myself, but it looked like a good place to toss spinners.

[Madison]

I think most people might just not want to share information with a snagger. 

[wildmanoutdoors]

Go over the bridge and take the next right. It will take you upriver. There is a WDFW access up there. Its tiny and the Silvers are skittish at best.

[seansfire]

just wondered if anybody knows anything about the gated dirt road next to the bridge?

let's get real about the snagging thing Madison , it is a well known fact that salmon do not bite anything once they go up river. they have no drive to eat , just get up that river and spawn. i have been told that by dozens of people as well as seen stories about it on television. until proven wrong i guess i need to take it as accurate so i will continue to try my best to irritate salmon into attacking my corkie but i gotta tell ya that anything forward of the gills is a keeper for me.

i admit that from time to time i will hook one in the tail and it is a helluva fight but those get released mostly without being banked.

good luck to everyone out there. hope everyone gets a big one.

[Mike450r]

just wondered if anybody knows anything about the gated dirt road next to the bridge?

let's get real about the snagging thing Madison , it is a well known fact that salmon do not bite anything once they go up river. they have no drive to eat , just get up that river and spawn. i have been told that by dozens of people as well as seen stories about it on television. until proven wrong i guess i need to take it as accurate so i will continue to try my best to irritate salmon into attacking my corkie but i gotta tell ya that anything forward of the gills is a keeper for me.

i admit that from time to time i will hook one in the tail and it is a helluva fight but those get released mostly without being banked.

good luck to everyone out there. hope everyone gets a big one.

Not sure how all those mouth hooked salmon get on my line when the line is doing nothing more than drifting into and settling in a hole.  They don't feed as intensely as they do prior to entering fresh water,  that is the well known fact,  but to state they do not bite anything is ridiculous at best and pretty close to downright dumb.

[STIKNSTRINGBOW]

where is the popcorn ?
 
I have to admit, I am not much of a Salmon fisherman, but have managed to have a few bite my lure or bait on occasion.
but, I don't catch very many 
(could have something to do with the fact I don't fish that often)

[Mike450r]

I don't know anything about the Tahuya river so this is a bit of a threadjacking but I have to speak up when people think the only way of hooking salmon is by snagging, flossing, or the salmon striking at the gear out of anger or irritation.

They do essentially stop feeding, meaning they swim up to spawn but do not actively search for food.  I have caught hundreds of salmon and with that I say they do not stop eating, meaning if something they think of as food is floating right in their face they bite at it.  I catch way more salmon with scent on my yarn than without and way more coho's drifting eggs than anything else.  They aren't hitting this out of irritation in my opinion, it is out of instinct, food in the face belongs in the mouth.  Simple as that. I do however agree that they do not or at least they very rarely go out of their way to eat, you need to present it right to them.

[WSU]

They certainly eat.  Perhaps they don't actively feed, but I can guaranty they eat.  Often the bait will be swallowed if you give the fish time to do so.  That does not happen often with gear meant to cause stikes based on agression such as spinners, plugs etc.  Fact is, salmon eat in rivers.

[buschcrawler]

the dirt rd. going up the river is open walk down it 1/2 mile and go left and start fishing. remember can't use bait on this river. and the day a silver bites my line in this river i'll quit fishing! don't see that happening!

[seansfire]

thanks man. my lady and i were there last weekend and we walked upriver from the bridge on north shore with our waders and saw nothing but a few people with one on the beach. very few fish to be seen compared to the number of people there.

also went to dewatto for a look and only saw 2 half dead silvers at the campground and we walked the river from there to the mouth and back. must have come across 6 or 8 people and nobody was catching anything.

i have NEVER caught a salmon in ANY river that bit my line. it is either FLOSSED or outright SNAGGED. I didnt intend for this to be a method thread but buschcrawler is right , they dont bite in the rivers guys. if you get one in the mouth good for you , i am just saying it dont happen very often.

[Button Nubbs]

You must really suck at fishing if you have never got one to bite. Look at the humptulips king thread. I posted pics of a bunch of fish. Everyone of them was caught on a float and eggs. I'm still trying to figure out how to snag or floss for that matter with a float and eggs. I've also never flossed a fish that had my hook all the way down its gullet. I have a sinking suspicion your a snagger at heart.

[6x6in6]

i have NEVER caught a salmon in ANY river that bit my line. it is either FLOSSED or outright SNAGGED. I didnt intend for this to be a method thread but buschcrawler is right , they dont bite in the rivers guys. if you get one in the mouth good for you , i am just saying it dont happen very often.

Wow!
To openly admit on the intranet that they don't bite and outright snagged?
Are you for real?
I'm mean no offense here, but really??
I have caught plenty of salmon in freshwater, silvers included, without much of an issue with them picking up my offering in their mouth.

[6x6in6]

You must really suck at fishing if you have never got one to bite. Look at the humptulips king thread. I posted pics of a bunch of fish. Everyone of them was caught on a float and eggs. I'm still trying to figure out how to snag or floss for that matter with a float and eggs. I've also never flossed a fish that had my hook all the way down its gullet. I have a sinking suspicion your a snagger at heart.

See, that's difference.
You don't use a piece of yarn, a corkie for flotation, massive treble hook and 12' 2x4 for a rod. 
Get with the program will ya. 

[Button Nubbs]

Oh that's what I've been doing wrong! guess its time to go buy an ugly stick!

[buschcrawler]

like i stated before you can't use bait on these rivers! so there is no gob of eggs for them to bite. can't even use scent. i don't disagree with the fish taking bait. if i was a fish and big glob of eggs went by I'd bite them too. doesn't happen in these rivers though.

[buschcrawler]

heres one from today

[Button Nubbs]

Spinners plugs and TWITCHING jigs all work. I have had days I caught silvers one after another on pink worms under a float. Bait is not the only option.

[buschcrawler]

thats funny you said that i that one on a pink worm jig

[stickbuck]

i have NEVER caught a salmon in ANY river that bit my line. it is either FLOSSED or outright SNAGGED. I didnt intend for this to be a method thread but buschcrawler is right , they dont bite in the rivers guys. if you get one in the mouth good for you , i am just saying it dont happen very often.

Seansfire, get real. You obviously have no clue, do you? Maybe you need to do some more research regarding this topic because the majority of your points are way off base. Out of the more than 300 humpies from this year, maybe only 25 were foul hooked. All the rest were biters hooked in the mouth. Keep it up, I'm sure it won't be long before you meet your fate at the other end of the game warden's ticket book.

[Ironhead]

You actually caught 300 humpies? Jeezus dude.......

[stickbuck]

Not to jack this thread, but it was amazing Ironhead. 53, 39, 36, were my best three days. Think my wife wants a divorce after I put 26 jars of pink eggs in the fridge/freezer. 

[TheHunt]

For slow moving water twitching and spinners. 

For fast moving water plugs. 

[kbyers]

So I am a little late getting in on this, and rarely speak up on the issue of flossing, but come on!!  If you think that the onlyway to put fish in the cooler is to snag them your fishing experience is very limited.  I realize that alot more people on the west side are bank bound than on the east side(hanford reach) for salmon so not too many people back troll.  All you snaggers and flossers please explain to me how I boat over one hundred nooks a year and every single one of them are hooked LEAGALLY in the mouth.

[stickbuck]

kbyers, because we do it the right way, the fun way. I'd rather have a head shaker on the end of my line than try to pull in a foul hooked fish.

[Button Nubbs]

[buschcrawler]

the rivers on the kitsap peninsula are small. 3inches deep with 3ft holes here and there. no chance of putting a boat in couldn't even use a small raft. most of them you can jump from one bank to the other. I'll get some pics.

[big J]

I really can't believe there is someone that believes salmon don't bite in a river 

guess you really can't fix stupid

[Alpine Mojo]

This could turn out to be one of the most entertaining fishing threads in a long time.

Salmon don't bite in rivers...
300 humpies caught, only some were foul hooked...
treble hooks and 2x4s...

but I still don't know what color corkie works best for "gill forward" hookups   

[Button Nubbs]

Black or brown. They don't notice it coming as easily

[WSU]

The other key is make sure you drift fish with a cannon ball and a tiny cork on top of a 3/0 hook.