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bigfootfish
Look on the far side of the river.
Can you fish below this dam?? lol. Im serious.
Yup ODFW doesn't want them up there.
No I meant ODFW doesn't want the Coho above the falls on the Willamette, proven by the fact that last year above the falls was open to 3 Coho a day, clipped or not. They insist that Coho aren't native above the falls and they're smolts compete with native winter Steelhead smolts. I say that at least "some" Coho have been going through the locks at the falls since 1873 I think, when the locks were first built. That's almost 140 years, IMO that's pushing the envelope to say they aren't native.
I like Coho in the upper Willy too! They contend that the high flows in winter come too late, that the Coho are too close death at that point to make it to they're spawning grounds. Usually the Willamette doesn't get really high water like that until mid to late December and more commonly it's in January and February when most of them have been dead for quite a while.