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Other Activities => Fishing => Topic started by: bass2elk on March 09, 2011, 06:57:23 AM
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I went to the Grande Ronde yesterday evening for a couple of hours. The river was high and muddy. No luck for me but a few drift boaters "lied" about catching a few. I will be heading down there a few more times before it closes on April 15th. i will update if i get lucky.
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Buddy of mine is down there for 6 days. He camps right there by bogans. Another buddy and I may be headed down tomorrow. We'll see tho.
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I didnt catch anything but i saw a ton of elk and mule deer they were everywhere.
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We just got back from the ronde there are some fish around but the water is high and about 2ft of viz. According to the predicted graph the river is susposed to go up on friday!
Good luck
Bones
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I didnt catch anything but i saw a ton of elk and mule deer they were everywhere.
Shhhhh There are no elk in the Blues! 8)
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I just returned from there.. got there sunday at noon and left yesterday at 11 am I hooked 13 fish and my buddy hooked 5 for his first ever steelhead trip.. river was NO where near high or muddy.. u havent fished that river much if that was considered high or muddy as I type this its at 2,750 cfs and below average for this time of year.
my buddys first ever steelhead
(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi200.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Faa139%2Fshanewa300%2Ffishing%2FIMG_20110308_090750.jpg&hash=4b5b728c18b30e98c476c945902e850ba8afa951)
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Wow what a pretty fish!
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we hooked 4 in a row like that one in about a hour yesterday.. that ws the only wild one of the bunch..but they tore it up :)
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The river has been alot lower the past few years so thats what I am going off of when saying the river is high not the mean which is based over a much longer period of time. Nice fish!!!!
Bones
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ahh gotcha.. I have fished the river for 24 years and this is normal to low to us
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I went to the Grande Ronde yesterday evening for a couple of hours. The river was high and muddy. No luck for me but a few drift boaters "lied" about catching a few. I will be heading down there a few more times before it closes on April 15th. i will update if i get lucky.
Lied about catchin a few? hahahahahaha.....man if theres anywhere to have a 20 plus fish day its there, so they probly weren't joshin ya.....did ya work hard at it or give up soon? Just like Huntnnw said and posted, fishing is great there, and has been.... :dunno:
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There are so many fish in that system that you can take fish during all conditions. :twocents: You just have to adapt to the conditions. Get back out there.
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fishin really shutdown this past weekend, right after that cold snap fishing was phenominal. A good friend of mine down there flaoted the river saturday with 2 others who have fished the river for over 20 years and they didnt touch a fish. My dad is on his way back today, will have to see how he did,weather has been terrible down there and with the 1/2 inch of rain thats projected today and all the snow they have recieved in the last 2 weeks I wouldnt be surprised if the river goes over 5,000 cfs in the next few days
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Are you drifting, sled or foot? Wow what a catch for sure.
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foot... no sleds allowed unless water is over 3,000 cfs or after march 15th some of the best holes on that river are on the road side.. and its the side u wanna be on come march the fish are running the roadside up to the hatchery..almost all OR fish have moved up.
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These fish that we are catching are a summer run fish... they enter the columbia in late august and make their way up here.
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my brothers and a couple of buddies were there the weekend before last and they brought home a few fish, said the fishing was decent even though there was quite a bit of ice in the river
