Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Fall Salmon







Fall fishing has been great. The Umqpua has been the go to place so far this season. Some of the other rivers are starting to fish, but you don't leave fish to find fish. This is the first year in a long time that we are able to harvest wild coho. Here are a few pictures from the last couple of weeks.













Smallmouth

I had fun fishing smallmouth this summer. I worked for myself, and I also did some work for the Big K Ranch in Elkton. Fishing was good, and we caught some bigger fish this summer. As many of you know we had to sift through a bunch of smaller fish to find the bigger ones. I built six new rods that really seemed to be a perfect match for this fishery.

Sturgeon













Sturgeon fishing was a bit interesting this year. We had lots of water from all the snowpack in the Cascades. All in all we caught plenty of fish, however the keepers were not always there. We did out best. Here are a few pictures from the season.