Fishing the past few weeks has been nothing short of amazing! The forecast for Chinook salmon was originally not that great this year, but it’s proving to be a phenomenal with tons of chinook in the Columbia and its tributaries. On another positive note, the Coho salmon forecast was set to be massive, and its proving to be exactly what the predicted! The next three months is my favorite time of year. Once the Coho and Chinook salmon enter the tributaries of the Columbia, our tactics of catching them completely changes. We will be using a much more “hands on” approach to fishing for these salmon with light tackle while casting on our small SW Washington rivers. It’s such a blast targeting salmon on smaller rivers because the constant action and moving around to find them, and with this years catch rates, it won’t be too hard catching high numbers of fish daily. After seeing how many fish were getting caught in the ocean and the lower Columbia this year, I can’t wait for the rest of our fishing salmon fishing season in the tributaries! Get out while the fishing is hot and don’t forget steelhead is up next!
Fall salmon fishing is in full swing! Right now we have started fishing the world renowned Buoy 10 fishery in Astoria Oregon and fishing is already excellent! Fortunately, We have a very high return of Coho Salmon and Chinook Salmon heading in from the ocean this year that will provide us with constant fish catching action until early December when we will then switch our gears to winter steelhead.
