| 03/31/09 | |||
| Van Duzen River | |||
| Water Condition: SlightlyOff | Weather: Clear |
| Comments: | |
| Fished Clark's hole yesterday and today. Got a couple hookup's on lures. Also fished at Grizzly Creek and had a couple of good bites using roe. Saw 3 river otter yesterday and one this am coming down out of Grizzly Creek. We both scared each other! river dropping and clearing. |
| 02/10/09 | |||
| Van Duzen River | |||
| Water Condition: N/A | Weather: N/A |
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| Hello all I am kinda new to the area (from florida) and am willin to bet anyone $10 that you can take me to your secret fishing hole on the Van Duzen or close bye and I will out fish you. I plan on heading out after 8 am when my son gets on the bus. Any takers on 2/10/09????? hookedonbottom@yahoo.com |
| 01/20/09 | |||
| Van Duzen River | |||
| Water Condition: SlightlyOff | Weather: Clear |
| Comments: | |
| Flows were reasonable.....decent visibility, 2 of us worked it pretty hard with popsicles & other swing flies.....1 fish hooked & lost in a day & a half.....quite a few folks out & no reports of fish....one driftboater said it was the 1st time they had ever been skunked. |
| 12/27/08 | |||
| Van Duzen River | |||
| Water Condition: Blownout | Weather: N/A |
| Comments: | |
| gotta love the rain.... |
| 10/08/08 | |||
| Van Duzen River | |||
| Water Condition: N/A | Weather: N/A |
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| Will be camping on Van Duzen weekend of 10/10. Ideas where to fish...what flies? THANKS!!! |
| 01/12/07 | |||
| Van Duzen River | |||
| Water Condition: SlightlyOff | Weather: Partly Cloudy |
| Comments: | |
| I GUESS THIS/THESE FORUMS ARE DEAD. Nobody seems to use them much.
STEELHEAD FISHING TIP #1 : Very, Very rarely is steelhead fishing good if the AIR temp. doesn't at least equal or excede the water temp.
SFT # 2 : Fresh fish never hold over silty/mud/sandy bottoms. Runbacks will, if you ever catch a fresh run fish in the river where its silt or mud, you are a very lucky ASS___E , you actually intercepted a fish passing over that wasteland on it's migration.
Fishing is fairly good, Winter run is just starting. |
| 01/11/07 | |||
| Van Duzen River | |||
| Water Condition: SlightlyOff | Weather: Overcast |
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| The river is a little high, but is green and clearing. cold water and air temps. this week have made it a little tougher. I got 2 bucks yesterday, both were about 6 to 7 lbs. bright,very fresh fish. nothing today, rained late in the afternoon, just a light shower and a little hail. |
| 12/17/06 | |||
| Van Duzen River | |||
| Water Condition: Blownout | Weather: Raining |
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| It's Definately not happening on the V.D. We did get a real good Salmon run in Nov. , of both Kings and Silvers. The King run was probably twice the normal average , and mostly all of them made it to spawn. ('cept for a few...) |
| 07/31/06 | |||
| Van Duzen River | |||
| Water Condition: N/A | Weather: N/A |
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| Talking to the locals, a few jacks have been hooked trolling in the estuary (summer run). The half pounder run has yet to kick off. Soon!!! |
| 04/26/06 | |||
| Van Duzen River | |||
| Water Condition: SlightlyOff | Weather: Clear |
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| pulled a nice sucker out of the river on wed. it was about 3lbs...nothing else |
| 02/27/06 | |||
| Van Duzen River | |||
| Water Condition: N/A | Weather: N/A |
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| A good place to fish the van duzen is from goats rock to about 1 1/2 miles past swains flat. look at map of van duzen from main page |
| 02/27/06 | |||
| Van Duzen River | |||
| Water Condition: N/A | Weather: N/A |
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| just wondering about a decent place to start on the duzen. not asking for any secret spots or anything. i tried swimmers but no luck there on roe or blue foxes. thanks for any help. |
| 02/24/06 | |||
| Van Duzen River | |||
| Water Condition: Clear | Weather: Clear |
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| on friday I landed two steelhead over 8 pounds both on a worm and corky. one was a fresh hen and the other was an old male probably on his third or fourth return. anyway, they were both excelent fighters.. I wish I could show you the pictures!! ps. halfpounders and sucker fish everywhere |
| 02/23/06 | |||
| Van Duzen River | |||
| Water Condition: Clear | Weather: Partly Cloudy |
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| Yesterday I fished the VD and landed five half pounders and a 8.5lb hen. She didn't have much fight because she was a runback but still a nice fish. |
| 02/15/06 | |||
| Van Duzen River | |||
| Water Condition: SlightlyOff | Weather: Clear |
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| well, believe it or not I landed three more trout today and this time they were all about a pound apiece. Another good day for the vanduzen, just waiting to hook into my usual 8-12 pounders. Tomarrow will be the day for the cleo's ... maybe I'll see you on the river some day....have a good one!! |
| 02/15/06 | |||
| Van Duzen River | |||
| Water Condition: Modoff | Weather: Partly Cloudy |
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| VD is on. screw the barbless hook rules, I do. Hey Christian, I like to meet ya maybe sometime on the river. COOL Fish story: On 12/20/05, I was doing carcass counts on the VD between 14 mile bridge + the dump. On my way back I took a short cut thru the high water bypass channel up next to the trees, and found a mint bright 44" 35lb. king that had gotten stranded in the bypass when the level receded. She didn't have a mark on her, and couldn't have been there for more than a few hours when I found her. Her meat was bright red, she smoked up great. way cool!!! |
| 02/12/06 | |||
| Van Duzen River | |||
| Water Condition: SlightlyOff | Weather: Partly Cloudy |
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| Sunday morning I landed three half pounders and a nice steelhead probably about two pounds it was a good day for fishing |
| 11/25/05 | |||
| Van Duzen River | |||
| Water Condition: Modoff | Weather: Clear |
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| today was a good day for all types of fish. Starting around 7:00 this morning I started off with my fly rod and landed 3 half/pounders , all were good fighters leaping out of the water. Later on in the day I got out my steelhead rod and went to my secret fishing hole and threw out a ****** let it sink to the bottom, started retrieving really slow and wham!! I had me a nice steelhead on..(buck)..he fought for about 10 minuets and got a nice picture of him. Then I caught two salmon one about 10 pounds and the other was a big 40lb chromer ........well Im out of time for the rest of the story so I will continue another day.... |
| 11/05/05 | |||
| Van Duzen River | |||
| Water Condition: Modoff | Weather: Raining |
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| saturday evening I caught a 7-8 pound chinook north of fisher road /slightly chrome, fought alright,hooked on blue and silver cleo 2/5 ounce will keep posting |
| Van Duzen River | |||
| Water Condition: Modoff | Weather: Clear |
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| fisher road fairly hi flow got one fresh steelie. nice four to five pound hen |