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I'm gonna somehow make some time to find a spot on the Tualatin this weekend to throw some kinda hardware out there. If there was any water moving I think you could sorta plunk a spinner or plug, like backtrolling from the bank, but it's gotta be so slow moving that I'll just spend an hour tossing spinners and call it quits.
sorry for the perceived thread diversion but avoiding a $600 ticket would be considered 'helping' to most people..
not sure I am reading pinstriper correctly above so to be safe: Willamette Zone regs allow only retention of fin clipped salmon unless modified by Special Regs.
bottom line: only fin clipped coho can be retained in the Tualatin River and it's tributaries like Gales Creek. cheers, roger
I'll argue the point. Everywhere else in the special regs, they go out of their way to say "adipose fin-clipped whatever". To me, the omission of that means any coho, and its open. The only time they use the phrase "non-adipose fin clipped" is when they follow it with "over 24 inches".
I think it's open for any coho, any length, per the special regs.
Maybe I'm wrong, but once again an example of how ambiguous the regs are and difficult to interpret. Which is driving people out of the sport, and hindering their entry.
Pinstriper, go to the lower mile or two of the Tualatin. It's where most of the coho will be right now and it is a night and day difference from the Tualatin at say cook park. It's fast flowing, clear and colder. Go to the YouTube channel in my signature and we have a video of the Tualatin at fields bridge park. Hardware would work, I'll probably get out there the weekend before it closes.
Saw them jumping/rolling in the Tualatin past 2 days
This "Super El Nino" they're forecasting for this winter has me worried - they're predicting most of the country will be wetter than usual, while we here in the PNW will be drier than usual and will continue to see drought conditions. That sucks. My early prediction is that if the El Nino pans out like they say - we're going to see a repeat of the stream fishing restrictions next year, with an earlier start date to them, if not an outright stream fishing ban once summer kicks in. Bring your own parking space, and your own rock to stand on to fish whatever still water body you wish to fish on.
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