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Title: salmon on the confluence
Post by: outdooraddict on September 19, 2025, 06:32:31 AM: headed out monday with a guide service from a christmas gift, for salmon on the confluence in lewiston. reports are hard to get, i have heard its great, and i have heard numbers are low. I thought the rules were you could only keep hatchery fish all the time, but another guide service just posted all natives have to be released due to lower numbers coming through. anyone fished it within the last week?
Title: Re: salmon on the confluence
Post by: Shooter4 on September 19, 2025, 06:46:17 AM: Quote from: outdooraddict on September 19, 2025, 06:32:31 AM
headed out monday with a guide service from a christmas gift, for salmon on the confluence in lewiston. reports are hard to get, i have heard its great, and i have heard numbers are low. I thought the rules were you could only keep hatchery fish all the time, but another guide service just posted all natives have to be released due to lower numbers coming through. anyone fished it within the last week?
I think the confluence really gets better in October i fished the toilet bowl last week with a guide and he was telling me oct.
Title: Re: salmon on the confluence
Post by: bighorns2bushytails on September 29, 2025, 03:17:21 PM: Salmon fishing has been very hit or miss for the most part.

Water temps until just recently were very warm(72+). There also was not a lot of current most days and it was very weedy.

I fished the 9th, 10th 11th as well as the 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st.

According to my more recent reports, water seems to have cooled some in the last few days which should improve fishing.

I did see some steelhead caught in the confluence on the 20th.
Title: Re: salmon on the confluence
Post by: outdooraddict on September 30, 2025, 06:50:23 AM: we had 4 hook ups right away in the morning on the 22nd, landed one hatchery and 1 wild chinook. and then it completely shut off. got a jack later in afternoon and a steelhead on a last cast of the day. nobody was catching fish. the warm water had them laying on the bottom, and i think the tribes drug that area not too long ago is what i heard. it is mind blowing they get to drag net the confluence.