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tips for chinooks?

Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2013 7:13 pm
by Streamside88
planning on giving the Chinooks a try the week end end coming up any tips as far as lures, flies and rigs?...

Re: tips for chinooks?

Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2013 10:33 pm
by Todd B.
  1. Avoid weekends.
  2. Go with a 10wt unless you like to run up and down the river chasing BIG fish.
  3. Some popular patterns:
    Black Stoneflies; Green Caddis; Egg flies (moe egg & glo bug style); Egg-sucking Leech; Marabou Speys; Woolly Buggers; Simple hair-wings like a Skunk; Hex Nymphs, Hare's Ear Nymphs (large sizes) and Pheasant Tail Nymphs.
  4. See #1

Re: tips for chinooks?

Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2013 5:26 pm
by Streamside88
is it still worth fishing off the pier with spoons and rapalas at this time of year?? or should i just stick to the river?

Re: tips for chinooks?

Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2013 6:38 pm
by Todd B.
You might get lucky and hook into a brown, but salmon do not feed when they're running up stream. You would probably run the risk of snagging fish in the river if you use spoons or plugs.

Re: tips for chinooks?

Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2013 9:24 pm
by Streamside88
i wont be using plugs and spoons in the river ill be float or fly fishing.... i meant generally at this time of year is it still productive enough to fish off the pier for staged salmon or has most of them gone up?

Re: tips for chinooks?

Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2013 10:05 pm
by Todd B.
I"m not sure when the run started this season. You might be better off posting that question in the main section, to get a better iea as to how far along this year's run is.

Re: tips for chinooks?

Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2013 5:33 pm
by mitch
I was fishing east tribs today and there are still a lot of salmon at the stream/river mouth. Unfortunately other than a few small silvers at dawn, none wanted my offerings (roe, jigs and flies).