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Humptulip winter steelhead

Post by Brat Bonker » Sat Nov 10, 2012 9:57 pm

Thinking of going to the hump monday for silvers and steelhead around the stevens creek area and was wondering what is productive there to catch steelhead like jigs or corkies in what colors? Thinking of drifting corkies with eggs and float fishing jigs, I saw that the hatchery got 60 back this past week so any recent reports would be great too.

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Re: Humptulip winter steelhead

Post by EAmon ___hoffman123 » Sat Nov 10, 2012 11:53 pm

Steelhead will be really slow there, My guide buddies aren't even getting any steelhead. Coho has been really good down there, and for them, I'd use a jig or a spinner, Or bobber and eggs. But with the water this high it could be hard to.
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Re: Humptulip winter steelhead

Post by EAmon ___hoffman123 » Sat Nov 10, 2012 11:56 pm

Still some chromers left too!
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Re: Humptulip winter steelhead

Post by Brat Bonker » Sun Nov 11, 2012 8:54 am

so the water is still high, that is god because the last time I was down there it was rising and the fishing was amazing. I heard these steelhead come in early plus they almost have double the smolts released than the previous year. What are some good color jigs there.

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Re: Humptulip winter steelhead

Post by EAmon ___hoffman123 » Sun Nov 11, 2012 5:13 pm

Water high= terrible fishing.... No joke. Pretty much pink/white orange/white, you just got to go try new things!
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Re: Humptulip winter steelhead

Post by Brat Bonker » Sun Nov 11, 2012 7:19 pm

really high water sucks, dude I slay steelhead in high water it is not even funny and it is so much easier cause the fish are like less than 10 ft from the bank.

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Re: Humptulip winter steelhead

Post by EAmon ___hoffman123 » Mon Nov 12, 2012 1:25 pm

It's still a little early for them too. They don't bite as much too.
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Re: Humptulip winter steelhead

Post by Brat Bonker » Mon Nov 12, 2012 7:13 pm

river was super high saw a couple salmon caught but not many heard of steelies being caught and big ones too and the guy at the store said the hatchery has some big steelhead too right now.

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Re: Humptulip winter steelhead

Post by RiverChromeGS » Mon Nov 12, 2012 10:47 pm

Brat Bonker wrote:river was super high saw a couple salmon caught but not many heard of steelies being caught and big ones too and the guy at the store said the hatchery has some big steelhead too right now.
u shoulda hit the satsop we hooked 45 coho there today
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Re: Humptulip winter steelhead

Post by Brat Bonker » Tue Nov 13, 2012 7:06 am

satsop was super high as was the nooch and any other we passed.

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Re: Humptulip winter steelhead

Post by EAmon ___hoffman123 » Tue Nov 13, 2012 9:38 pm

Lol Nooch wasn't high! I live on that river...
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Re: Humptulip winter steelhead

Post by Brat Bonker » Wed Nov 14, 2012 7:02 am

thanks metal sounds goods.
the nooch was really brown and looked higher than normal along with the satsop.

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Re: Humptulip winter steelhead

Post by RiverChromeGS » Wed Nov 14, 2012 5:39 pm

Brat Bonker wrote:satsop was super high as was the nooch and any other we passed.
High brings fish in and makes um hungry. We whacked the CHIT outta chrome hos
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Re: Humptulip winter steelhead

Post by hanapaa808 » Wed Nov 14, 2012 7:26 pm

Bratbonker..... Just to let you know, where ff filmed that video is legal to fish. You can ask the guys that work at the hatchery. And if you ask me,.that would be the perfect place to test gear like he said he was doing. Just my 2 cents worth.

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Re: Humptulip winter steelhead

Post by Brat Bonker » Wed Nov 14, 2012 9:03 pm

Hey are you fishing the cascade on thanksgiving weekend, me and my crew might head up there , wondering if its okay incase we catch all the metal heads or maybe see you out there

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Re: Humptulip winter steelhead

Post by Brat Bonker » Wed Nov 14, 2012 9:35 pm

I will be the other guy yelling fish on at the stretch above the log jam. Either that at the lil eddy tossing stee-lees and twitching nightmare jigs. you should try that one day in there, has to work for steelhead, 3/8 or 1/4 oz jig and just twitch back but work inside the shelves in there.

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Re: Humptulip winter steelhead

Post by Brat Bonker » Mon Nov 19, 2012 12:08 pm

Any one fish the satsop recently coho, thinking either there or the cow first weekend of december.

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Re: Humptulip winter steelhead

Post by obryan214 » Mon Nov 19, 2012 8:33 pm

Brat Bonker wrote:Any one fish the satsop recently coho, thinking either there or the cow first weekend of december.
been a few times recently. plenty of coho aand chum and theives. someone made off with my metal fire ring.

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Re: Humptulip winter steelhead

Post by Brat Bonker » Mon Nov 19, 2012 9:09 pm

yeah that area also has bad tweekers too, off the bank or in a boat?

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Re: Humptulip winter steelhead

Post by obryan214 » Mon Nov 19, 2012 9:13 pm

off the bank, my boats are deep v hulls.

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