I haven't been through there in a couple years but there was some pretty shallow riffles that I highly doubt a v bottom boat could make it through upright, I put a kicker on the back of my drift boat and do a lot of motoring from jasper down to D street but I always have to row in 3 or 4 places...
I was thinking about hitting the sixes in the morning if I can find somone that wants to go. the river should be prime and full of fish. I would like to find somone that can row so I can switch off once and a while any takers shoot me a pm
Crusty
personally i would be ashamed of myself for fishing in something that small with zero escapement possiblilties those guys should be arrested I am thuroughly disgusted
coho is closed on the siuslaw and has been since oct 9 also the north fork has just a tiny remanant run of nooks seems a shame to kill any of them since their numbers are so low
I do fish weekends some times it really just depends on what days I can get free. I just fish away from the crowds on the weekends when I do go.
by the way I am not far from you flipper I am just down in the aubrey lane area
Crusty
right aroudn the first of september I am going to start trolling over on the siuslaw and will have some open seats.
I can pretty much go any day of the week so I try to avoid weekends as I troll out of a 17ft drift boat and all the power boat traffic on the weekends is just to hard on me...
yeah i hear you I have never targeted them and I personally believe its poor ethics to fish over fish that you can't keep, as was the rules in seasons past, I wold see people purposely targeting them i felt nothing but disgust those fish arent hearty fish most will die when released so why kill...
i usually catch plenty of cohos on cut plug herring but I wouldnt be afraid to pull a flasher and hoochie in the bay they tend to flush in and out with the tide early on in the season so they are used to hitting that out in the ocean
I have fished out in the ocean some and I have rarely ever seen it at less then 10 wild fish for every 1 hatchery fish with that kind of ratio when they have a 50.000 hatchery fish quota that means they are handeling 500.000 wild fish and with even a 50% mortality rate that means 250.000 fish...
I had a discussion with Steve Williams from ODFW once and voiced my concerns about the coho ocean fisherie and mentioned that I thought the mortality rate was way in excess of 50% yet they use 10% in all their run size models. his answer was that they really have no clue what it is in the ocean...
yeah that is true but in my opinion it shouldnt be open in the ocean for wild fish they have no way to select what rivers those fish come from, at least with the inland fisherie they can keep track of where the most fish are coming from. on the other hand they are going to kill tons of coho...
I just looked over the fall salmon regulations and am kind of sad to see the limit dropped to only one fish down on the elk and sixes river this year, it makes it hard to justify the gas money to drive down there. I love fishing those rivers they are my favorite on the whole coast.
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