Sandy River coho , Oxbow Park.

[Fishpdx]

Drove to oxbow park today , to wet my line, not even hoping to catch a fish, maybe a early steelhead, Fished for 1 hour, On first cast I had a golden small spoon, I never used spoons before. It looked like a trout spoon. First cast 10 seconds later fish on, first I thought steel, then saw the surfaced fish and realized it was coho, 10 mins later it gave up and I safely removed the hook, it was bright red native male, about 20 pounds! I was using my float okuma celioe medium light steelhead rod, and not even 1 bite after that, surprised there's still coho in the river. No pictures , because I was fishing alone and kept the fish in the water and quick release. I liked the spoon idea and going to try them for steelhead, tomorrow or sunday I will visit deschutes river near kahneetah, maybe I will have some luck , checked regs coho and steelhead are open. anyone target them in that area? Whats your favorite was to use spinners or spoons,

 

[troutdude]

Spoons are a great way, to cover holding water and pockets, that other methods can't get to. Little Cleo's are the best...especially if you can find, the old-school originals. I find them at flea markets, thrift shops, yard sales, etc.

 

[C_Run]

Try to fish them near the bottom and let them "swing" naturally in the current rather than simply cast and retrieve.

 

[Irishrover]

Bill Herzog wrote a great little book on spoons and how to fish them. (amato publications). They have been a great tool for pulling steelhead out of the Sandy and up on the Salmon when you used to be allowed to fish it. They are enjoyable to fish with, not a lot of gear to tie up!

 

[troutdude]

Agree 100%. Wouldn't hurt to get yourself, a copy.

 

[C_Run]

Absolutely. It helped me to finally get out of the steelhead doldrums.

 

[DrTheopolis]

surprised there's still coho in the river.

I rarely fish the Sandy, but a couple of years ago, a friend caught a bright coho in the Clack in January.

 

[killigan]

Bill Herzog wrote a great little book on spoons and how to fish them. (amato publications).

Indeed, a good book on the art of spoon fishing. Found my copy on ebay for a very reasonable price. Spoon Fishing for Steelhead by Bill Herzog

 

[sapo]

Awesome! Carp, not sure if you fished the D or not, but it's been a crappy steelhead year. I have, however, been killing it for trout in the Maupin area, jimmy legs w dropper to caddis pupa, october caddis, prince...Fished it the last couple weekends and was super productive, lots of bigger fish

 

[Fishpdx]

I fished today on deschutes, right after warm springs casino, caught bunch of whitefish, and a coho. Coho still open till December, took a couple whitefish for the smoker. as well as the coho. The big whitefish was 20 inches, about 3-4 pounds. Never caught a big one before.

Nov 27th

 

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