Thanks beaverfan and that makes sense...these stats are just what had been reported to odfw as of Nov 2010 (which is when the page said it was last updated). It's my first year out, so i don't know how it works.
I guess what I'm getting at, has fishing slowed down enough on the Sandy in the...
So i was checking out the sport catch statistics at odfw and noticed that the sandy river catch went down from over 1000 winter steelheads in both 2008 and 2009 to around 100 in 2010. I know it's old news as of this point, but it seems to have been really slow out there this year too (for...
last sat
last sat
saw three nates landed in oxbow last saturday am, but there were like two dozen lines out in the hole. no hatcheries. was planning on spending the day tomorrow but river is rising fast. i'll check conditions in the am.
No bites in an hour or so near Buck Creek on Saturday noon or Dabney on Monday PM.
Ran into a guy who hooked a buck nate just above Oxbow on Saturday - said he almost froze his fingers off releasing it.
Does "too cold" mean you've got to present right in the nose in slow deep water?
Wish i knew a spot too...week off work and was planning on heading west to fish, but not in the rain...hope the forecast for some sun starting Thursday holds up!
I bought that book a few weeks ago and think it's pretty good overall. Haven't caught my first steelhead using his technique though - but that's probably more because I'm brand new and don't know much as much about fishspotting as I wish I did, instead of his technique. It seems to be a good...
Busted on Saturday. River was fishable, not bad weather, so a decent day...but nothing but squawfish at Dabney.
Anyone else pull one off the Sandy this weekend?
BTW: Somebody told me you can sell squawfish for $2/each in the Gorge. Is that correct?
What's the forecast for the Sandy River tomorrow? Do you think it will it be on & where (at least approximately)?
Got a whole day free tomorrow and it's looking like the river has dropped. Drove by tonight and it looked pretty green around Dabney. Saw a few guys pulling drift boats out at...