Salute Friend

Finally the Northwest has started to feel a little warmer and dryer these days and soon the scores of summer steelhead will show, headed for their home streams and hatcheries. Well, as long as they don’t pick up one of my baits on the way…

For the last few years the Lower Columbia tributaries have experienced some great summer steelheading. Conditions have been good and numbers of fish have been high. Limits on the North Fork Lewis and Cowlitz have been increased to help cull the herd of hatchery fish entering these rivers. With the Columbia being closed this year, it will open June 16th at the latest, fishermen are forced to head to the smaller rivers and streams - but one can still score some nice fishing pictures.

Even though there have already been summer steelhead caught by myself and others, usually the big kick-off for the tributaries begins in early June. If we were able to fish the Columbia right now, I would not be here writing this report as fishing can be pretty productive. For those of you that don’t follow Northwest salmon management, the Columbia is closed to protect the returning Wild Spring Chinook run that can’t afford incidental catches of salmon while fishing for steelhead.

But that is a good thing in some ways. Fish will be showing in the tributaries unimpeded in their travels to the home waters from which they came.

When targeting fish in the smaller rivers, sidedrifted eggs, prawns, and shrimp, will be the go-to baits as usual. Some fishermen prefer spinners and plugs but as the waters drop I will size down my gear and worry more about boat positioning and stealth than anything else. Summer steelhead are a very skittish foe and when the water gets gin-clear they tend to become a challenge to catch.

Fishing will remain good for steelhead by about the end of August. By that time the 1,100,000 Coho and 500,000 Chinook returning to the Columbia will have the attention of the Northwest fishermen.

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Well I met up with Josh Friday night at about 4 pm after trying to catch bait at the skyway for nearly an hour while Trop Storm Barry started coming through. It was windy, rainy and nasty out. Well I waited on Josh for a while because he had to stop and get a rain suit, which was a smart idea. Anyway, after Josh arrived, I showed off the new 4/0 that I bought and we started trying to catch some pinfish for our grouper fishing. I managed no bait, josh pulled up a dozen greenbacks and sardines. Well we went to first grouper hole, ###…. I forget which number hmmm. Anyways we drop down some baits and after a little bit we get nothing so we move to grouper hole ###, we drop down and Josh gets hit, then I started gettng hit, but no fish, josh moves down one more whole and it doesn’t take 10 minutes and up come a nice 24 inch grouper which we snapped some nice saltwater fishing pictures of, Josh freelined, and I fished on bottom so we could see what works. Well both ways were working Josh caught that on a squirell fish, then he managed a pin fish, starts floating it out, and bam, it doesn even get out all the way and he gets nailed, a fat, 20 incher…. almost but not quite, after a little longer I get nailed and pull up a fat little 18 inch grouper. Well we ran out of bait and couldn’t catch any more that sucked because the grouper bite was on.

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