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Steelheading The Lower River

Fished the lower river today. Wind was a factor. Saw a few hooked up across the river in the lower town pool. Finman landed one thus far. I am just happy to get out on the river again. Make that two for fin. Hooked another s I type this. We will be boating it [...]

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Water Going Up With More Rain In The Forecast. Weekend Looks Promising.

The Salmon River Flowcast has just been updated and the river is going up due to the recent rain and current levels of the reservoir. Until 9:00 PM today, 750 CFS From 9:00 PM today until NOON Fri, 1,150 CFS Stay safe as these are the first higher levels of water we have seen this season. I am [...]

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En Fuego Is All I Can Say

After a slow weekend midriver and a hot weekend down low, the rain seems to have heated things up a bit. Word is the lower river is ‘en fuego’ with fish and the movement from the week before should be moving up river. We have gotten good reports from not only the DSR but also members [...]

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It’s On Fellas… It’s On!

The 2009 salmon run is in full swing. I have been on the phone, the Blackberry and the net and all reports are going bonkers. Fish are coming in steady teh last two days and that includes not only Kings but Cohos, Browns and Steelhead.   There is definetly no denying it now, lower river continues to load [...]

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Fishing Is Getting Good! – Live Mobile Report

We haven’t had an update from the lower river yet this morning, but last night they were reporting the best day this season with a mix of kings, cohos, browns and chrome.  We then got word this am from Fish N Magician (Scott) from Tinker Tavern Lodge that is was raining cats and dogs. The radar [...]

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Run Alert: Nice Run In Progress.

Based on what we are hearing, there is a good number of kings, cohos and steelhead at the lower end of the river. The DSR is reporting a great day as well as a nice blast at last light last night. This week should be interesting as well with a good number of all varieties entering the [...]

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A Lull In the Storm. The SalmonCrazy ‘Week Ahead’.

SummerFest 2009 has come and went and man was it a blast. Our biggest turnout ever, most prizes and some great food provided by Fox Hollow. This weekend I will post the photos and list of raffle winners as well as all of our sponsors who we thanks dearly for all of the donations. Now on [...]

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Alert: Salmon Run – First Big Run Is On!

According to the folks down low today was the first big push of the year. Taking the cooler temps from the last few weeks, the new kings in the estuary and most importantly the water release for Labor Day weekend you have yourself the ingredients for an early salmon run. So for those who ventured out in [...]

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Early Season Estuary Kings, Big Fight, Small Crowds.

Just got a live report in from our boy ‘Duckmeat’ who is in the estuary with our Senior River Correspondent hehehe ’Snagger’. The action has been decent this am and afternoon. The DSR is reporting some small amounts of fish moving through. Nothing major but wanted to share the live report and photo as it happens. Ahhhhh technology… [...]

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Estuary Begins To Harbor Residents Of The ‘Salmon’ Variety

After the confirmation of the new ‘residents’ of the Salmon River estuary last night the ‘interwebs’ have been abuzz with folks starting to get the itch in full gear. Briefly talked to ‘Snagger’ and ‘Duckmeat’ via text this afternoon and they again confrmed what we had all been reading. A rough count of 1000 to [...]

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