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So as to stop hijacking Qwapa's thread about the Siuslaw, lets give the lakes their own little home, they'll appreciate it.
Dam usually opens around the 15th each year, it's privately owned by international paper. Even though there's a fish ladder, these fish are half braindead, 'cause the majority of them don't use it until that dam is opened up. Peak season is the first part of November in previous years, though it's all dependent on rainfall and tides, and in my experience, the end of november when the water drops to around 50 degrees, you could hit these fish in the head with a plug and they'd still have lockjaw, even though they're in there in massive numbers. That's when you switch to steelhead on the rivers
Hooray for the endless fishing season.
I think i'll be making my first trip over there on the 18th since I get the pleasure of working the saturday of the 17th. Might check out the river and see how many fish are stacked below the dam, i'm betting there's quite a few, if the numbers on the Siuslaw are any indication. Plus the last two years, we had a TON of jacks in both lakes..hopefully this year, there will be a surge of those 36 inchers. One can hope!
billfish said:
Dam usually opens around the 15th each year, it's privately owned by international paper. Even though there's a fish ladder, these fish are half braindead, 'cause the majority of them don't use it until that dam is opened up. Peak season is the first part of November in previous years, though it's all dependent on rainfall and tides, and in my experience, the end of november when the water drops to around 50 degrees, you could hit these fish in the head with a plug and they'd still have lockjaw, even though they're in there in massive numbers. That's when you switch to steelhead on the rivers
Hooray for the endless fishing season.I think i'll be making my first trip over there on the 18th since I get the pleasure of working the saturday of the 17th. Might check out the river and see how many fish are stacked below the dam, i'm betting there's quite a few, if the numbers on the Siuslaw are any indication. Plus the last two years, we had a TON of jacks in both lakes..hopefully this year, there will be a surge of those 36 inchers. One can hope!
....Friday I'm usin' a vacation day, and I will be taking the 'rents boat out at first light and am thinking the weeks rain will be just enough to get the fish movin' in. I'm know for sure they're already in the Siltcoos river, but I imagine the numbers are not many above the dam. Gonna go check out the dam and see how many are stacked. I think friday i'm gonna hit Tahkenitch though, it's a much better lake in my opinion, and it doesn't have the pressure Siltcoos does (think, only one monkey in a $40,000 boat, versus 25 at Siltcoos). Plus, it's a slightly earlier run. Another thing is I'm not certain about the algae situation, but I was over there in September, and Siltcoos looked a nice baby poop green, which the last time it looked like that...it turned into a full blown bloom of blue green algae through the peak of the Coho run, which hey if you want to eat fish that come from that, more power to ya, but you won't see me doin' it. Maybe a small trout, but not a fish with as much fat content as a Coho. So tomorrow more than anything is a trip to do some trail maintenance on the Siuslaw since I know the river is still a trickle, and then scout the lakes, and toss a few spinners. Perhaps I'll get lucky with an early fish. Historically, the earliest I've caught anything has been the 15th of October, with the brunt of my tagged fish coming the last week of October and first two weeks of November, but it's been a wierd year, and the Coho have completely taken over the Siuslaw, so it's looking promising for the lakes. How did you miss them living in Reedsport?! lol they're right there. Granted, the Coho fishery was closed for I don't know how many years, before re-opening in I think 2003...Think that's the first year I was over there? Might've been '04...but either way it hasn't been open for very long. Hands down my favorite fall fishery. I'd say it's my favorite fishery of all time, but then that'd be a lie...but it almost is.
