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Dropped 3 crab pots 3/4 of the way to Twin Rocks, in about 50’ of water, had them baited with some tuna carcasses from our recent tuna trip. Proceeded to about 160’ a little south of Twin Rocks, and started fishing. We had about a 50/50 mix of hatchery to natives, and after getting our 4th coho, went and pulled the pots. A lot of females and smaller crabs, but still 20 keepers. Some were a little soft, but both the numbers and quality of crab are improving...

I’m hoping you can help a confused Coloradoan with general, not specific info. I realize I’m not a contributor here and haven’t earned anything but am asking guidance from anyone willing. I know this is gonna be long, I apologize in advance. I’ve been fly fishing wild trout streams in Colorado and elsewhere for 45 years. I love small to medium streams and rivers and wade fishing with dry flies, primarily. In Colorado, every little creek in elevation has wild brookies, browns, bows or cutties.

I got one on Monday and one today.

At the millpond in vernonia on a wacky rig. Started fishing this week! Wanting to to try for trout !

I took off this week from work and ended up going fishing on Wednesday due to the nice wind forecast for the gorge. Man, what a difference a week and a half makes. Last trip out the bass were chasing bait (smolts) until noon. The bass were schooling and busting bait until at least noon. The river felt alive and thick with life. Gulls and osprey everywhere. This week the river was dead quiet. I guess the smolt have out-migrated and nary a ripple disturbed the surface for most of the day...

I went trout fishing on the South Santiam river today for some trout. I used worms and theres a bunch of tiny 6 inch rainbows there. Anyways I saw 3 huge fish I think one was a pikeminnow I tried to catch but wasn't biting. I casted onto some whote water and caught a nice ten inch hatchery trout and kept it and my dad caught a wild trout and we released it. I reccomend going in the morning when the sun isn't as strong and colder when trout bite more find fast moving water with deep holes and dri

Anyone else rip roaring ready to hunt? Or get out today (opening day)? I won’t be out until Sunday morning but I’ll be hunting hard. Hopefully relocate a giant jet black I saw last summer before fire season locked me out. Wouldn’t mind connecting with the chocolate color phase I saw a couple weeks ago either. Good luck fellas

I met up with my regular fishing buddy on the 20th (Saturday). We had not fished together yet this year. Sadly, he has been inflicted with a bad case of steelhead-itis and there is no known cure :) Anyway it was just really exciting to be back on the water with him again and we definitely made a good go of our chance to fish together. Between the two of us we caught over 70 bass. I did a little better on numbers but he had the two biggest (17.5" and 18.5"). The best I could manage was a...

I hit the Columbia out of Stevenson, WA on the 4th. The day did not start out well. The day before when I loaded my kayak into my truck I decided I wanted to reorganize some things. Well I stupidly forgot to strap my kayak down into my truck while being thus distracted. I have to tell you I may not have been too awake when I pulled out of my street at 3:30 in the morning but when I had the BANG and saw my kayak on the street that definitely shocked me full awake. Let me tell you that the...