New Tradition - Chrome Friday

[mallard83]

Floated the calawah from 101 to lyendecker on the bogi. REALLY slow. The calawah was a challenge all it's own for the simple fact that it was only running at about 360 cfs. Very difficult float at this level. I will have a couple videos uploaded when I get home at some point. The bottom was visible even in the deepest holes. We spotted about 10 steelhead and about the same amount of silvers between the calawah and the bogi. My buddy lost a decent buck coho that broke him because of frayed line and I got nothing but countless cutthroat and a decent whitefish.

There was a sketchy group fishing the hatchery hole on the calawah. The one guy hooked a steelhead as we were floating up and another guy from a group of three that obviously knew him came up and netted the fish. As we got closer the guy that landed the fish quickly bonked it snipped his line and put the fish with 3 others that he already had on the bank. Limit is 3 hatchery steelhead on that river not 4. They appeared to all be steel with no salmon in the mix. The guy that netted his fish (terrible net job btw) returned to the two other guys downstream and were also acting suspicious. They all just sat there not fishing until we were out of sight. My guess (and only a guess) is that they were snaggers from the exhibited behavior I witnessed. The steelhead tend to stack up in that hole and are easy targets for such people in low clear water.

Spent too long in a few holes and rowed the last few miles on the bogi in the dark. That made for some worried wives lol. Have to head home first thing tomorrow but hope to be back in a couple weeks.

[luisdabeast206]

Got mine Friday too..

[mizm05]

It was skunk Friday for me. The original plan was to hit the coast, but those rivers need rain again. The discharge was just too slow to warrant the drive out there. So we ended up staying local on the Green. Hopped holes all day starting at the logjam down from 18, and ended the day up in Flaming Geyser. I hooked into a couple fish throughout the day, but nothing landed. My buddy landed 3 or 4 chum, but none worth keeping. Was a bust of a day for fishing, but I was away from the crowds, enjoyed good company and enjoyed God's beautiful creation so it was still a good day overall.

Hope the rain brings the discharge up to a good level by this weekend. I'm itching to get back out the coast.

[eat-sleep-fish]

Hit the Green on Friday for a bit but pierced no fish lips. Threw a couple different jigs under floats with and without prawns. Left a little earlier than I wanted to, had issues with foot pain from my boots. I think I was parked near Nate's rig on the Green. Right by a creek with a gated road that says do not block gate. Tried to find Nate to meet the legend but the pain was unbearable so back to the truck after a short hike. Saw some corpses and zombie dogs.