Salmon River Steelhead / Salmon

[Manfred]

I want to go to the other Salmon River in Pulaski this fall. Ideally, I would go a few times. I can often steal a Wednesday or Thursday away from my office. I have yet to catch a steelhead. I would appreciate the chance to fish with anyone who knows how to do it some time this fall.

Right now, though, I have a question: Is salmon and steelhead fishing on the Pulaski Salmon River the kind of thing that you must be there for at dawn?

(I have been there twice in the afternoon with no luck).

[Rybren]

Manfred,

No, you don't have to be there at dawn, but whenever I can, I am. Typically, I find that there's often a push of salmon very early in the morning. I don't think that the steehead behave quite the same way.

Last Saturday, I fished from about 09:30 to 18:30 and had most of my hookups after 17:00. The one possible steelie hit mid-afternoon. In the past, I have caught fish throughout the day.

I don't know when I'll be heading back down there, but I'm always looking for company.

Jerry

[Robert Goulet]

I'm on vacation all next week and I plan on taking at least 2 trips down to the Malone area for some late season trout. Then I plan on hitting up Pulaski to try my luck with some Steelhead and Salmon, and then I plan on doing some hunting back here in Ottawa for partridge. Pumped would be an understatement.

[FishingIsHealing]

Since when are there partridge in Ottawa?

I haven't seen one in my life.........

Hungarian partridge are pretty rare arent they?

Maybe you are hunting diff areas than I've been to.....but I thought it was mostly grouse and woodcock here........

Hungarian partridge are mighty tasty i bet........

[DropShotr]

Since when are there partridge in Ottawa?

Tom........Pickerel=Walleye & partridge=grouse

I would think that the trout will be running good now. Salmon fishing should have been over a while now. The trout seem happy to bite all day. I tied my own egg sacks with eggs I cured.

If you can get some brown trout eggs........SON.......ya got gold for trout fishing.

The morning run...........Back in the day we call the Con Ed (I think Con Ed....been a while) hot line to get the dam discharge schedule every night while we were down. If I remember proper It would take 6 hrs after cut back for the water to start to drop at the lower reaches, these lower reaches became Douglaston Salmon Run. This drop in velocity & level would get the fish moving up stream. This is is more of a salmon thing.

Knowing the discharge schedule is a common sense thing. I don't think they run as long and as fast as they use to, but those "Caution, Fast rising waters" signs are there for a reason.

Good luck,
DropShot'r

[Rybren]

My wife and I went down that way for the weekend to visit some old friends. On Sunday, the husband and I snuck out for a few, okay, more like 9 hours of fishing.

The salmon run is pretty much over. There are still a lot of them in the upper reaches of the river, but they're pretty beat up and ugly looking. The steelies and browns are starting to come into the river in good numbers. I got into one steelie on an ESL - egg sucking leech (woolly bugger with an egg head), but it was a LDR. From what I saw and heard, ESL, plain woolly buggers (black and olive), stone flies, egg patterns, and egg sacks all seemed to work well for the other fishermen for all species. I watched a 9 year old boy pick up a 10+lb steelie. It was his first and boy, was he (and his father) ever excited. He got it on an egg sack drifting under a float.

The water flow was down to 350cfs. You can always get the most up-to-date current flows online at salmoncrazy.com and many other websites.

[DropShotr]

I should be returning from my deer hunting trip to Pennsylvania about the 10th of Nov. I always stop in Pulaski for a late breakfast. I'll go to Whitaker's and get a run down and then post when I get home.

Been a long time. Maybe I should toss the waders, korkers, vest, net, rod & reel in the truck too....just in case it's the hottest bite in years.

FISH ON!!!!

DropShot'r

[Rybren]

Yeah, I'd bring the waders & rod. I've been away from the river for about 6+ years, but from what everyone down there has been telling me, this is shaping up to be a banner year for steelies and browns.