Monday, October 21, 2013

Humptulips & Satsop Salmon

We fished the , Humptulips and Satsop  October 19th & 20th.
The  water conditions were very low and clear on both rivers.  The overall fishing was slow, but we had great weather conditions for spending a weekend on the rivers.The early mornings were cool but it warmed up nicely in the after noons.   
We floated the hatchery drift on the hump on Saturday. The river was at 350cfs  we had to drag the boat in a few spots but the overall drift was not too bad.
There were a good number of  dark  silvers holding in the deeper holes but it was very difficult to get them to hit.We kept after them and ended up catching a decent number of fish and even found a few keepers but the overall  fishing was on the slow side.

On Sunday we floated the Satsop. There did not seem to be many fish in the upper areas but the numbers seemed to improve as we moved down river.
We ended up hooking a fair number of fish and even managed to catch a few bright ones but the overall fishing was  slow. We had our best results this weekend twitching river bend jigs, fishing bobbers and eggs, and throwing spinners. A blast of rain would help fishing conditions a bunch but it does not look like there is much rain in site.
 

 

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