09-21-2002, 08:05 PM
Fisheries Update
September 20th - September 26th, 2002
The time is ripening for Tillamook Bay! Have you got your technical reports? Be sure to log on to the order form ([url "https://secure.max.net/cgi-bin/sform/theguidesforecast.com/techrpt.shtml"]https://secure.max.net/cgi-bin/sform/theguidesforecast.com/techrpt.shtml[/url]) for detailed reports on spinner and herring trolling as well as how to fish Tillamook Bay. These reports are guaranteed to be the most detailed you have ever read! And speaking of Tillamook, although the catches are clearly NOT going to be what they were last season, the fish are running on the large size this year. Numerous 40 pounders have been taken and I feel a 60 pounder this season is not out of the question! Coho are also plentiful but "lock-jawed" on Tillamook Bay. The Nehalem booted out big numbers of coho and chinook on 9/16 but has since slowed to a snails pace.
The recent rain had no effect on coastal river levels keeping our salmon "at-bay" if you pardon the pun. Seaweed is once again plaguing Tillamook anglers working the lower bay but spinner anglers can deal with the problem. The Nestucca is having hit-and-miss fishing as well. Siletz anglers report hot one day, not the next which is typical of Fall chinook fishing. Yaquina Bay & River is offering little in the way of salmon fishing although herring remain available to boat fishermen. The Alsea has a productive chinook fishery now. Coho have not yet started entering the Umpqua due to the high water temperatures. Winchester Bay is fishing well for chinook. Crabbing is very slow in Tillamook Bay, very good in Yaquina Bay.
On the Columbia, the coho season in the ocean ended on a positive note - a lot of finned coho were present in the catch. The Columbia River itself was very productive for coho before the gillnets went in. We have to write that fishery off for a while. Chinook upriver is still going on but you can bank on the fact things will begin to slow down the later into the month we get.
The Willamette River offers a diversion from the intensity of the various and often-crowded salmon fisheries as smallmouth bass have become extremely active and anxious to strike crankbaits and various soft plastic lures.
Scheduled to be planted this week: Mt. Hood and Small Fry Ponds, Faraday and Estacada Lakes, North Fork, Dexter, Foster and Detroit Reservoirs.
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September 20th - September 26th, 2002
The time is ripening for Tillamook Bay! Have you got your technical reports? Be sure to log on to the order form ([url "https://secure.max.net/cgi-bin/sform/theguidesforecast.com/techrpt.shtml"]https://secure.max.net/cgi-bin/sform/theguidesforecast.com/techrpt.shtml[/url]) for detailed reports on spinner and herring trolling as well as how to fish Tillamook Bay. These reports are guaranteed to be the most detailed you have ever read! And speaking of Tillamook, although the catches are clearly NOT going to be what they were last season, the fish are running on the large size this year. Numerous 40 pounders have been taken and I feel a 60 pounder this season is not out of the question! Coho are also plentiful but "lock-jawed" on Tillamook Bay. The Nehalem booted out big numbers of coho and chinook on 9/16 but has since slowed to a snails pace.
The recent rain had no effect on coastal river levels keeping our salmon "at-bay" if you pardon the pun. Seaweed is once again plaguing Tillamook anglers working the lower bay but spinner anglers can deal with the problem. The Nestucca is having hit-and-miss fishing as well. Siletz anglers report hot one day, not the next which is typical of Fall chinook fishing. Yaquina Bay & River is offering little in the way of salmon fishing although herring remain available to boat fishermen. The Alsea has a productive chinook fishery now. Coho have not yet started entering the Umpqua due to the high water temperatures. Winchester Bay is fishing well for chinook. Crabbing is very slow in Tillamook Bay, very good in Yaquina Bay.
On the Columbia, the coho season in the ocean ended on a positive note - a lot of finned coho were present in the catch. The Columbia River itself was very productive for coho before the gillnets went in. We have to write that fishery off for a while. Chinook upriver is still going on but you can bank on the fact things will begin to slow down the later into the month we get.
The Willamette River offers a diversion from the intensity of the various and often-crowded salmon fisheries as smallmouth bass have become extremely active and anxious to strike crankbaits and various soft plastic lures.
Scheduled to be planted this week: Mt. Hood and Small Fry Ponds, Faraday and Estacada Lakes, North Fork, Dexter, Foster and Detroit Reservoirs.
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