chris61182

What's to say that the hula doesn't count? Sure it's not an imitation worm or egg, but it is a soft plastic or rubber.

I imagine an officer would probably agree with most of us that it's a lure, even with the skirt, so you probably wouldn't have any problems. But there might be enough wiggle room in the regs to allow an officer to be a real hard ass and really stick it to you if they so chose.

FishSchooler

I went out again today (may 25) and started casting worms and letting them sit there with a weight. After a while in the rain, the rod shook tremendously, then my line broke. I was retying when this woman came up to me and said that there was a huge fish off to the side on the shore. I ran over and there was my hook in the fish's mouth. It looked like a sucker with the mouth and golden scales, but there were two little barbels or whisker things on the sides of the mouth. Definetely not a catfish though. It must of weighed at least seven pounds and it was still breathing, but just not moving. It was dying so I decided to take it home instead of leaving it suffer and die there. Must of been a carp though. Stayed for another hour but caught nothing in the rain.

Why does the tualatin have so many snags? I lost at least 5 lines in it by now with 2 trips. How can I avoid this?

phillk6751

haha, ya....tualatin is snag city....your best bet is to plunk...i.e. expect your rig to get snagged and just sit and wait for something to eat your bait.....99% of the time the fish will un-snag your rig.

Wilsonriverfisher

It is snag city because of logs, rocks and brush on the bottom, use heavy line 10 pound minimum and lighter weight. You can minimize the snags for sure but nothing is going to keep you snag free there unless you are using a bobber. There is some big ass fish in there capable of breaking 10lb line. If you want to be totally snag free go to tualatin park and go to the back of the park by the soccer field take the path to the west threw the field you can take the east path but the west is shorter.T here is a railroad bridge and there you can fish the mouth of fanno creek as well. That area is a little deep and has underwater current i like that. The railroad/fanno creek mouth area is a hot place to fish and sometimes gets busy. Fish of the bridge and you can adjust your depth as to not get snagged up or you can fish both sides of the river there with a little less snagging due to the more sandy bottom there.

-cheers

chris61182

So I just found a little park just a handful of minutes south of Hillsboro that boarders the Tualatin river, Rood Bridge Park.

The first couple pictures are from where a waste treatment plant returns its clean water to the Tualatin. Next comes a shot I enjoyed of rock creek on it's way to meeting the Tualatin. Then finally some strange machine/contraption I discovered a dozen yards upstream of the Rood Bridge Road bridge.

I didn't catch anything but did see a couple of fish rise. And talking with some friendly locals they told me that normally the river runs a lot clearer through there and that in a few days things should be improving.

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Mattco26

I live near there, just moved from beaverton. We used to fish the tualatin from under the bridge on roy rogers. Caught all kinds of panfish, bass and cats. I'll go check this spot out tomorrow, weather permitting.

Mattco26

Went there today, no luck. To muddy to get a good spot, only fishable areas are open water, no structure. Maybe fishing worms off the bottom might get some success, but I didn't have any. Current much stronger here than I remember too.

FishSchooler

I use 12 pound mono... still the snags stay as snags no matter what, I walk downstream give a pull, upstream, give a pull, still nothing. Someone told me that if you get the line tight, then pull it by the reel (the tip should flex and bend down more), then let go, the hook should jump and release, it works surprisingly! But it doesn't work every time.

On the way in to cook park, there are several large ponds connected, then looks like a slow stream flowing into them. Kind of looks like Bass water... Kinda doubt it though... I'll take pics of them next time and post them. PM if you want pics of my carp =) kinda huge!

Wilsonriverfisher

yeah using larger line you will keep your gear alot more in the tualatin river smaller snags will withstand the force needed to free the snag and frequent small snags are common on the tualatin it comes with the territory. Post a pic of the carp I love good fish porno

chris61182

Wow, it's still a mess ! Thanks for the report, I may have to put off heading back out there until next week.