A Day on the Water

 I was 2 for "4" with an asterisk on that 4 because the first steelhead I landed I had actually hooked twice.  It had the bead hooked to its mouth of the fish I had recently broke off thinking that it was foul hooked. Skilled bottom bouncers were racking up 10+ fish days.  The spot I was standing in was obviously good for landing 10+ fish to any capable bottom bouncer using beads.  I haven't bottom bounced since just before Fluorocarbon came on the seen and have not missed snagging up on the bottom. Some less capable fishermen were taking the...

Thursday evening I fished Tippy Dam with Beads and Jigs under a bobber.  I quickly got a 4 pound spawning female Brown in 9 feet of water on a 10mm painted  yellow glow Bead.  3 hours later I got a big hen Chinook on a #6 Nuke Minnow Jig, Egg (White) color.  Only a few fishermen there to bother the fish, not many hooked.  One guy left with 3 summer run Skamania steelhead caught earlier bottom bouncing spawn.  The Salmon were jumping but mostly not biting until I got the one big hen.     Pictures to post this evening.

Friday October 15 I was fishing the 5/0 Chartreuse Banger Waker-Popper through a spot I had not seen fish before, a big Musky arched his full body out of the water as she seemed to swim through the Popper without getting it in her mouth.  5 minutes later I came back with a 5/0 Black Popping Wedge, which she rushed but turned away only leaving a momentary bulge of water below the popper. An hour later I came back with a 5/0 Yellow Baitfish Bob's Banger, about 40 yards from where I found that musky, she or another musky made a...

Some dark Coho jumping but not biting, almost all Chinook are dead.  One Fisherman in a boat fishing bobbers was 2 for 3 on steelhead in the last 45 minutes of daylight. I got 3 typical brown trout, 2 on Painted Yellow Glow Beads and one on a small Black and Grizzly insect imitating jig called an Opal Demon. In the morning, I started down river ant Rainbow Bend and nobody got anything.

April 30, I saw no sign of steelhead until maybe a fish or two rolling near dusk.  I over heard talk of one or a few caught up stream.  A guy casting a Chartreuse 3 inch Paddle Tail Jig got a 3+ pound and an 11 inch walleye.  I got 3 smallmouth on white steelhead jigs drifted with soft taps under a bobber.  A Falshy Opal Minnow Jig got two and a White Mopworm got the bigger one.  Reports of white bass running earlier but none seen today.