09-21-2004, 03:55 AM
Rogue River - Upper - September 20th, 2004
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FISHING: Excellent
September 20: The River continues to drop and the eggs are becoming very important to the fish. More and more salmon on the redds every day. The flows are 1,400 cfs, way down from a week ago, and the temperature has dropped five degrees to around 50 out of the dam.
September 17: The flow stayed the same today at 1,795. Cloud cover kept the air temps cool and the steelhead in some shallow areas all day. Howard Bell([url "http://www.trophywaters.net/galleryPopup.php?recKey=2344"]1[/url],[url "http://www.trophywaters.net/galleryPopup.php?recKey=2345"]2[/url],[url "http://www.trophywaters.net/galleryPopup.php?recKey=2346"]3[/url],[url "http://www.trophywaters.net/galleryPopup.php?recKey=2347"]4[/url]), and [url "http://www.trophywaters.net/galleryPopup.php?recKey=2348"]John Crawford[/url] of Tulelake, CA hooked steelhead on a mixture of steelhead nymphs. A fair shot at swinging wet flies yielded some trout grabs but no solid yanks from the nickel trenchcoat river dwellers.
September 16th: The River has been bumped down a hundred cfs the last two days. It is at 1,794 cfs today and may drop another 100 cfs tomorrow. Not sure what this does to the fishing, some angler’s report horrible fishing and some don't. Dave Erikson reported "great" fishing yesterday after the first drop. Matt York had a slow day of fishing farther up stream on the same day. Maybe the farther you can get from the dam on the ramping phases the better. Only one way to tell…………………get out there and form you own opinion. Swinging flies will hold out until the water temperatures drop, nymphing will continue to produce consistent results for adult steelhead. Get ready for egg thirty. Salmon are starting to move onto the spawing redds and the fish will have their egg-goggles on any day now.
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FISHING: Excellent
September 20: The River continues to drop and the eggs are becoming very important to the fish. More and more salmon on the redds every day. The flows are 1,400 cfs, way down from a week ago, and the temperature has dropped five degrees to around 50 out of the dam.
September 17: The flow stayed the same today at 1,795. Cloud cover kept the air temps cool and the steelhead in some shallow areas all day. Howard Bell([url "http://www.trophywaters.net/galleryPopup.php?recKey=2344"]1[/url],[url "http://www.trophywaters.net/galleryPopup.php?recKey=2345"]2[/url],[url "http://www.trophywaters.net/galleryPopup.php?recKey=2346"]3[/url],[url "http://www.trophywaters.net/galleryPopup.php?recKey=2347"]4[/url]), and [url "http://www.trophywaters.net/galleryPopup.php?recKey=2348"]John Crawford[/url] of Tulelake, CA hooked steelhead on a mixture of steelhead nymphs. A fair shot at swinging wet flies yielded some trout grabs but no solid yanks from the nickel trenchcoat river dwellers.
September 16th: The River has been bumped down a hundred cfs the last two days. It is at 1,794 cfs today and may drop another 100 cfs tomorrow. Not sure what this does to the fishing, some angler’s report horrible fishing and some don't. Dave Erikson reported "great" fishing yesterday after the first drop. Matt York had a slow day of fishing farther up stream on the same day. Maybe the farther you can get from the dam on the ramping phases the better. Only one way to tell…………………get out there and form you own opinion. Swinging flies will hold out until the water temperatures drop, nymphing will continue to produce consistent results for adult steelhead. Get ready for egg thirty. Salmon are starting to move onto the spawing redds and the fish will have their egg-goggles on any day now.