Hurricane Earl going to bring us some heavy rain this weekend, along with a good push of Salmon moving thru the lower river??? Or will the 750cfs release be enough to do it??
I have this Saturday and Sunday open, “Early King Special” From Daylight til 11:00am $100 per person, in the DSR.. Who wants to be down there with me when they come???
I do have some Prime Salmon Dates still open, they won’t last long now with the fishing being close - Give me a call 315-298-3949 or e-mail me to book a trip.
Salmon are being caught on the lake from 60′ fow out to 100′ over the weekend. Yesterday we saw almost 2″ of rain and this morning the Pineville flow gauge shows 512 cfs, this will send a few that were in close up the river…. I did talk to a friend fishing the DSR this morning and he reported a few small pods of fishing were moving thru down low.
Flow has been update with the rain: Until 8:00 PM today, 185 CFS
From 8:00 PM today until 9:00 PM tomorrow, Tue, 1,800 CFS
I do have some Prime Salmon Dates still open, they won’t last long now with the fishing being close - Give me a call 315-298-3949 or e-mail me to book a trip.
Do you need casting instruction? Fine Tune your casting? A Guided Drift Boat Spey trip? Paul’s Guide Service is the Premier Guide Service on the Salmon River for Spey Fishing instruction and Drift Boat Trips. Check out my Spey Page for me details.
Give me a call 315-298-3949 or e-mail me to book a trip or discuss one.
I spent the last 3 days fishing and hanging out with Ed Ward, Mike McCune & Scott O’Donnell and what a time it was.
What a great bunch of guys, Ed, Mike and Scott were really impressed with the Salmon River. The were all about the experience, being from the west coast they had never caught or seen a chub, they thought that was the coolest thing. They ran around looking at the ground cover everywhere we went and all the different trees we have, On the west coast along their rivers either the woods are so thick you can’t walk thru them or the tress are so big, nothing grows under them.
Seeing these guys fish our river was awesome. They showed me alot about casting, but what was even better was what they showed me about fishing skagit lines, different presentations and flies that will not only help me a better angler for Steelhead but Salmon too. All this combined will help a great deal when guiding next season, I can’t wait.
Here’s a few pictures from the weekend -
Good friend and fellow guide Loren William’s getting a little instruction from Ed.
Scott O’Donnell with a nice cast.
Ed explaining a casting stroke.
Scott working down thru the “fridge”. Let’s just say 5 guys fished thru there, Scott rigged up a rod with a “Guide Fly” and hit one after all of us fished thru with his presentation.
Sunday’s am class, a lot of women are now into spey casting.
Mike McCune and Drew watching Scott fish.
Big thanks to Zach for getting these guys to come to the Salmon River.
Most Spey fisherman get stuck in their ways fishing, they think that if they make a cast and the fly is swinging it will do the rest all by itself. What you need to do is make your fly swim properly, How?? Steer the line with the rod tip is key. If your line isn’t doing the right thing, you fly isn’t doing the right thing.
I recently got a new waterproof video camera, here’s a clip of a swung fly swimming in the current.
Since the tempature has warmed up and were not in the single digit’s like we were a few weeks ago the fishing has picked up some. The mid-lower river has opened up and some angler’s are hiking into spot’s that were unfished for a couple of weeks.
Best results have been getting to a spot where you know there’s fish and wait them out. Lighten up you tippet and keep changing your offerings. Warmer temps have also brought out the crowds since everyone has cabin fever.
Heavy fishing pressure over the weekend combined with low water and blues skies sure slowed the bite down as soon as the sun comes up. Key to a good day after is keep moving looking for hot fish in the fast water.
Water flow: Until 9:00 PM today, Mon, 335 CFS.
Weather looks like partly sunny the rest of the week with no rain in sight. Time to start doing a rain dance.
November open dates: 15, 20, 21, 27, 28, 29. Plenty of dates open from December thru March. Those of you who didn’t rebook your April and May dates yet, please do so ASAP as it’s filling up quickly.
WOW, we have had some really great day’s over the last week on the Salmon River. The weather has brought some well needed rain and with that it the fish came too. Here are some picture’s from the last week.
Looking to book a trip? Here are my open dates for October - 11,25,31. November dates - 5,6,7,8,14,15,21,22,28,29.
Give me a call 315-298-3949 or e-mail me to book a trip or discuss one.
Saturday we saw the first good push of fish up the river. The DSR saw steady action all day, friends who were down there said it was nice size run of fish for September 5th. Those same fish were up thru the Ball park area on Sunday morning. Fishing on the lake is good with most of the fish in 100′ range along Mexico Bay.
Until 9:00 PM Fri SEP 11, 335 CFS
Looking to book a trip? Here are my open dates for September - 19,27 October 10,11,24,25,31.
Give me a call 315-298-3949 or e-mail me to book a trip or discuss one.
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