Teamed up with good friends Brady Rogers of Brady's River Tours and Pautzke Pro Staffter Steven Theel of Southern Oregon Fishing today in search of some more 2013 winter chrome! I had a feeling it was going to be a good day but I had no idea that an 18 pound beast would bite MY yarnball. It...
Yeah no doubt buddy. Trophy Kings and steelhead. The Kings are still coming in and you can keep them until march I believe. Rain pushes them up and if you do get one this time of year it's usually a 30, 40 or 50 pound fish. Winter steelhead season is just beginning though. Hopefully we'll talk...
Thanks... I'm headin back this week... I may go up to the Elk or Sixes because it drops a lot faster than the Chetco. The Rogue is right there too. Awesome fishing for sure.
Went down to the Chetco River this week and fished 2 days. The first, I was rained off the river but the second I got a solid day in and had good success catching 2 chrome bright winter steelhead running plugs! I seen some huge salmon landed as well and I definitly learned enough by catching and...
Yeah I think you're right, especially the hatchery summer run steelhead. They average is 4 to 7 pounds but we get a lot of fish larger than that too.The Natives are usually the bigger and better looking fish we get. 3 nates to 1 hatchery down here. The winter fish come larger especially fishing...
Went out today and I think everyone else thought it would be raining on the upper Rogue because I didn't lay eye on a single other boat all day, had the whole river to myself. Only a couple bank anglers in the upper holes too, left the holes wide open for me. 6 for 9 on the day with some awesome...
Saw a bit of a slower plug bite prior to the big storm moving in. I took Slate and Aja out for two days and we had better success fishing with bait. Both side drifting and bobber fishing were successful techniques. Also caught a bunch of half pounders and about 5 Cutt Throat over 2 lbs. (All...
Had an excellent 4 hour run from the hatchery to Rogue/Elk this morning with Tom and Bob. We went 3 for 6 with 2 hatcheries and a native to the boat. Lost 3 others, 2 of which unfortunitly came off right at the boat! Another good day on the river, even with the sudden clear weather...it didn't...