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Shhh !!! LOL
Posted by:Tim
06/12/08
Trinity River
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The Spring Chinook are moving through the Hawkins Bar area in substatial numbers. Bouncing a night-crawler (whole) with a green corkie above. Hit 2 fish last Monday and 1 on Tuesday. Fish the inside bends....more later......
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Hi,
Thanks for the posts on the Klamath. I have fished this river a few times in the late summer down by the mouth (the Estuary I believe it is called). I have a 16ft aluminum boat with a prop motor, so I stay down low. I was wondering if it is possible to fish for springers down in the lower stretches of the river where I can get my boat. It sounds like most people are using jet boats to get a little further up stream but wanted to see if anyone knew about access with a prop boat. Thanks for any advice you have.
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The Lower Klamath River is producing nice size Salmon in the 10-18 lb.
range and are taking green spinners on a standard spreader with the boat anchored within 15 ft. of the lower river shores.
Ahhhh... its nice to hear those reels sing on the hook up.
Looks like the Klamath will be at acceptable flows as promised by the water regulators through the Summer/Fall.
Locals are preparing for an excellent fishing season with a large quota of Salmon. The Klamath is the place to get your fish.
If you are going to hire a guide, be sure they are licensed by the Coast Guard as required by law.
Contact Gary at www.wildriverfishing.com to reserve your fishing trip on the Klamath.
Fish-On...Gary
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Northern Cal & Southern Oregon rivers fishing report.
The Klamath is at 16.65 feet and 32,700 CFS and dropping.
The Rogue is at 6.90 feet and 10,600 CFS and dropping.
The hot weather has melted the snow packed in the mountains and the rivers were on the raise the Klamath went up 10,000 cfs and the Rogue went up 3,000 cfs the rivers are dropping with the rogue falling slower.
I am booking Klamath River Spring Salmon trips May 15th through July.
Spring Chinook salmon have begun entering the lower Klamath River, making their way upstream into the Trinity River where they will return to the hatchery or eventually spawn early this fall.
While the chrome-bright salmon make their way through the portion of the Klamath in Del Norte County, anglers from throughout the West try their luck for what is undoubtedly one of the best-tasting and hardest fighting on any salmon.
"It's been picking up," reports veteran lower Klamath guide David Castellanos of Smith River, who has set up fish camp at Golden Bear RV Park for the season.
"They were releasing lots of water from Iron Gate and Trinity dams and now they've stopped and the river has been dropping."
Castellanos, who also operates www.smithriverfishing.com, has been on the scene on the lower Klamath since the first fish of the season began showing up.
Springer fishing usually continues to be good into July.
Castellanos already has enjoyed a three-fish day.
Spring salmon, commonly known as springers, are prized because of their oily meat.
The salmon enter a handful of rivers, including the Klamath, Rogue, Umpqua and Columbia, as snow begins to melt from headwater mountain ranges, and then hold in the upper stretches of those rivers until the fall to spawn.
Only rivers that drain from mountains with large snow packs have springers.
Because the fish don't spawn until the fall, and they don't eat once they return to fresh water, the spring-run salmon are as fat as footballs and live off their oils and fats until they spawn.
Springers quickly move through the lower sections of rivers before holding in the cool headwater pools for the summer.
To catch them, anglers usually fish from jet boats, anchoring and waiting for the fish to come by.
"It's a fast-flowing river so you have to be tight to the edge," Castellanos says of fishing the Klamath.
"I like to keep to four and a half feet of water."
The springers will migrate upstream in the slower water close to shore, following the inside bends and path of least resistance.
Spinners are the go-to lure for Klamath springers.
Most guides and experienced anglers make their own, but a large selection also is available at Englund Marine in Crescent City.
Many anglers will use a wire spreader with a foot-long dropper and two-foot leader.
Castellanos is very particular about his leader and dropper lengths. He uses a 15-inch dropper and 28-inch leader. He ties the spreader to his P Line mainline and uses a graphite rod from Rogue Rods to walk his rig downstream.
The rods are then placed in the rod holders until a fish strikes.
Klamath springers are known to hammer a spinner and then take off full speed. Some fish, despite being relatively small compared to fall-run Chinook, have spooled anglers without even slowing down.
Anchor fishing for Klamath springers typically continues into mid-July. When water temperatures increase, anglers will begin trolling spinners in the estuary.
The quota for adult fall run salmon this season is an incredible 22,500.
Thank you good fishing.
David
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The Memorial Day weekend ended with several anglers happy with their Lower Klamath River fishing trips.
Most Spring Salmon were taken on spinners with the boat anchored on the near shore. The river current is still running swift and levels were going down as of this posting, and will make the fishing better.
Good prospects for those wanting to get into the Summer/Fall Salmon and Steelhead fishing for 2008. Its our best quota in many years and good news for those who fish where the Salmon fishing is closed.
Make plans to get your Salmon and Steelhead on the Lower Klamath River in 2008. Those seriously interested should be planning and booking their fishing adventure now before prime fishing dates fill.
At Wild River Fishing Adventures we will be glad to get you where the fish are by jetboat into the wild and scenic Klamath River located in our back yard. We are celibrating over 40 years of local river guiding.
Contact us for questions about arrainging your fishing trip or outfitting information at www.wildriverfishing.com or call us at
707-498-4491........Fish-On!....Gary Whittaker
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Hi, I would just like to know how fly fishing is on the Mad River. I was thinking someplace off of North Bank Road down as far as the 101 Bridge. Anybody know of any other good spots?
Any help will be appreciated.
Don
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snagging fish does not scrap up the fish as bad as the sea lions do, besides i do not no how many fish you all have snagged? but let me tell you this...it takes talent to snag into a fish, not anyone can do this, I will tell you what is killing fishing....its other fisherman telling other fisherman how they should fish!! mind ya own damn buisness and keep ya mouths closed out there!
Posted by:
05/09/08
Klamath River
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Klamath River Fishing - "Klamath In-River Salmon Fishing is"OPEN"for 2008"
Phone: (707)-391-7144 - Book Now for Best Dates !!
News Flash: The 2008 "Pacific Fish Management Counsel "(PFMC) has selected its new management plan. (direct link to the plan http://www.pcouncil.org/salmon/salpreIII08/salpreIII08.html) Within the report, specifically regarding the 2008 Klamath In-River salmon allocation, on page 16 "South of Cape Falcon" item 1, you will see that Klamath River recreational fishery allocation is 22,500 fish for sport fishing, & Item 2, Klamath Tribal allocation is 27,000. This means that the 22,500 fish will be split between the upper and lower rivers and the native Americans will receive 27,000 fish for commercial fishing. Presently there is a two adult salmon limit per person and when Fish & Game make their final ruling in June, it will probably remain the same. This sport fishing quota is the second largest we have seen in many many years. This will truly be the year of Klamath in-river salmon fishing.
Also we are just beginning to start picking up spring run salmon which will only get better as the day progress. Check out my website www.salmonslayer.net and give me a call if you are interested in catching a California salmon this year.
Ken Cunningham
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Even once the Mad reopens all there are is a bunch of baby fish. I was actually fishing a stream that is a tributary to the Mad, it probably isn't legal to fish I have no idea, my friend just took me, and we both caught little browns. It blew my mind. Toss a little gold spinner in may through summer, whenever the river is actually open, on ultra-light tackle (I personally like ugly stiks) and you can catch 10+ little 6 inch trout. Also near sundown the bigger 10-12 incher start feeding, but you seem to have to match the hatch a little to hook into them.
Be safe and tight lines.
Posted by:z hendo
03/31/08
Mad River
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Chris,
As I read my regulations book I see that the fishing on the Mad River ends on March 31, that's today. It doesn't start up again until the fourth Saturday in May, and then there are various stipulations. My regulations book was good only through February 28, 2008, even though we had 29 days in February. You might check the Eureka Fly Shop, 707-444-2000 for information. I believe the Trinity and Klamath are still open for Steelhead.
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I am heading that way in early april and have not cought many steelhead. I was wondering if someone could give me some pointers on where to go on the mad and what to use. I usually fish spinners and bait.
Thanks to all and good luck fishing,
Chris
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FISH ON
Posted by:
03/19/08
Mad River
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Dont nobody worry about snagging fish, in about ten years there wont be any fish to snag.
Posted by:
03/17/08
Mad River
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if you dont like fishing the mad the stay home with your wife.This is not a wilderness experience it is a meat run.The fish we are taking were paid for by you and me.As far as I care you can hook those garbage hatchery fish in the asshole and kill them all!
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03/17/08
Mad River
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hook them in the ass and kill them all those are the fish we paid for going to the mad is not a wilderness experience it is a meat run realize it deal with it or shut up and stay with your wife
Posted by:
03/17/08
Mad River
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I was at the Mad Sat. and Sun., I won't say I was fishing because I will not consider what everyone was doing fishing. I have not fished steelhead a whole lot, mainly w/ guides up north. I wanted to see what this Mad river long lining, flossing, fly fishing or what it really is, "SNAGGING" was all about. After a day and a half I had enough. The older guys try to act like they are fishing, with short, small jerks of the pole, but the younger generation w/ no license, no report card, have taken this to a new level of small numerous casts w/ monster hook sets w/ any twitch in the line, every time, right in front of God and everybody. I saw fish snagged with eyeballs gone, huge gashes in there bodies from previous snaggers. Come on, is this the way it is going to be? It is no womder that our fishing industry is such a mess. What ever happened to the Dept. of Fish and Game? Does anybody care? What ever happened to the rule of releasing foul hooked fish? Help us all.
Posted by:BAH
03/21/08
Mad River
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I used to fly fish on the Mad in the high water and catch alot of fish. Fly fishing and long leaders is the same type of fishing believe it or not. because I know they cant see that fly in muddy water but you still catch fish on that fly because all your doing is long lineing them the same way your catching them on your baitcaster.Fisherman back in the mid 80's got the hang of the long leaders on the Mad because there use to be alot of fish caught in the muddy water by the fly fisherman so everybody startred useing the long leaders and haveing as much luck as the fly fisherman so if they ever outlaw long leaders get a flyrod and you can do the same thing
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