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Ocean is Rippin’

28 Thursday Aug 2008

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Well there was no river trip today for me, but I was able to hook up with the Happy Hooker fleet from the Yakutat Lodge. Looks like the Halibut and the Silvers are available for those going out on the big pond. Here are the pics from all 3 of the Happy Hooker boats.

Happy Hooker #1

Nice Rack Big Butt 86 Lbs Butt

 

 

Happy Hooker #2

Nice Butts Wolf Eel Lots a fish Rock fish

 

 

Happy Hooker #3

Big Fish Great Fish 100 year old Yellow eye Yellow Eye

Ocean is doing great right now. So all those who like the big pond, it looks like Yakutat Lodge is the place to be now!!.

Good luck out there.

Flymstr;

 

 

Silvers are biting good!!

27 Wednesday Aug 2008

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Another day on the river, and the result was the same. Even after 8 years guiding on the Situk River, I still get excited when a client hooks up with a big Silver Salmon. When fishing for Silvers with jigs, you have to be very quick on the hook set. Because of the fact that the Silvers will hit the jig on the way down, by the time you go to set the hook, the fish is already in the process of getting rid the jig from it’s mouth. By reacting instantly, you can get the hook set before they get rid of it. After several of these missed hook ups, we finally started getting into fish, and holding on. When all was said and done, we had 4 nice Coho in the box, and released near 50 pink salmon. The day was a great success. Here are some pics from today.

Big Silver Limit of Silvers Two big Silvers

 

 

Good luck out there!!

Flymstr;

Done in an Hour!

26 Tuesday Aug 2008

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Well this morning I took a motor boat and 1 client up the river. On the first cast he was hooked upped, and the fight was on. A few casts later he was on another one, but after a high flying jump, he was gone. After the fast start, things slowed down a bit. We headed up river about 1/4 mile, and found more Silvers, hanging around a log jam. Within 10 minutes, the client was hooked upped again. After landing the second fish, we slowly rowed down stream to the landing. Here are some good pics of these two beauties.

Nice Silvers Two Silvers

 

 

 

 

Good luck out there.

The nets are in the river now, so the fish count will slow in the river for sport fishing for the next couple days.

They should be in good numbers again by Wednesday night.

Flymstr;

 

 

 

Jiggin’ for Blue Backs

18 Monday Aug 2008

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Today was my first day back on the water, since the vacation.

Water levels are very good right now, and the clarity is perfect. Silvers are coming in to the system, and the pinks seem to be slowing down. Today I took the motor boat, and went up the river with Mike and Debbie, a couple from Seattle Wash. and clients of the Yakutat Lodge. We went about a mile above the landing. We stopped just below the Oxbow, to start fishing. We were fishing a hole called, "The mink hole". Within just about 5 minutes, we had our first Silver in the boat. It took no more than fifteen more minutes to get the second Silver to the boat. Then came a slow down in that hole. We then drifted down stream, casting jigs behind the logs and root wads. With no luck for about 75 yards down stream, I stopped in front of a log that has been good every year. We were able to get several good bites in this hole, but only one to the boat. After about an hour, we drifted further down river, to another log that I knew would have fish behind it. No more than five casts in, we were hooked up with number four. After boating that fish, we slowly rowed down to the landing, taking our time to enjoy one of the rare, sunny Yakutat days.

 

Mike and Debbie  

Mike and Debbie

                                                          We saw no bears or moose today, which is very surprising for this time of year.

Most years the bears are present all the way down the river. The last couple trips I took down the river before my vacation, yielded no sightings of bears. I thought today was going to be a bear sighting day, but there were not even noticeable sign of any bears in the area. I would assume as the year season goes on, the bears will come to feed on the pinks and Silvers in the system. So to all those coming up to visit us in the next 5 weeks, just remember, that the bears will take your fish if you are not carefully with how you handle them. Upon catching a fish, you should immediately knock the fish out, with a stick, rock, or sometimes your fist. After knocking out your catch, put the fish on a stringer (IN THE WATER!). Then cut the gills (IN THE WATER!), to bleed the fish out. When you bleed the fish out, it allows the blood to be removed completely from the fish, including the meat. Doing this will keep your fish fresh longer, and it will also make the meat not taste so "Fishy". When you carry out your fish, keep the fish on the stringer, and attempt to stay in the river as much as possible. If you have to take the trail out, try not to drag your fish, leaving behind scales, blood, and scent along the trail, leaving the next fisherman coming in to deal with the bears that are there looking for the fish that were drug down the trail. Also when you walk in the river, you don’t have to carry the weight of the fish, they will float on the stringer. When you get back to your vehicle, if you have decided to clean your fish out at the river, please do a few things to avoid problems later. When cleaning out you fish, make sure that the guts are thrown far enough out into the current, that they go down river. If the tide is up, take the time to run the guts out into the river, instead of just throwing them out as far as you can from the bank. If you do this on a high tide, when the tide goes out, then the guts just become bear bait, several feet up on the bank. So you have to be sure that the guts make it into the main current of the river.

Remember!  The bear you are dealing with today, may be because of what you did, yesterday!!!

Good luck out there,

Flymstr;

Back from Vacation

17 Sunday Aug 2008

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Ok I am back in Yakutat now, and I ready to start catching fish. So I will be updating on a regular basis. The Silvers are coming into the river already. I talked to one of the guide, (Randy Cambell) here at the Yakutat Lodge today. He said the water went up a bit in the last couple days, but the fishing is not to bad. I will let you all know after I go and look tomorrow.

See you all then.

Flymstr;

Vacation Kings

01 Friday Aug 2008

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Well it has been 7 years since I have seen the sun shine in Oregon, in the summer. Damn it’s hot!!!. I know 70 and 80 degrees is not that warm, but from what I am used to, this is hot. Anyway, I am home on vacation now, and having a great time. The creek that I have been fishing for the last 30 years, for winter Steelhead, has Chinook returning to it for the first time in 20 years. When I was 18, I can remember days on the creek, where you could catch ten to twenty of these big kings per day. Then back in the mid to late 80’s, because of lack of funding, the kings run was shut down at the hatchery, resulting in the decline and eventually the end of the Chinook to Eagle Creek. I am glad to say that 6 years ago the state funded a private hatch box, and this is the first returns to the creek this year. It is not a coincidence that I am home at this time. I did not want to miss the first year the Kings came back. I called ahead to some of my friends before I returned, just to see if there were any kings in the creek. The reports I got were not good, but I had a gut feeling that they were there, and my friends had just not spent the time to really look. Well I am glad to say that in the 3 days I have fished, since my return, the fishing has been great, and the Kings I have found have been in great shape. I have got into about 20 fish, and landed about half of them. The biggest so far, being about 25 pounds. These fish have just a bit of color, but they still have white belly’s, and the meat is still bright orange, and they are very firm, and full of fight.

 

    About 20 years ago, I made a fly out of pheasant breast, and it was the best King fly ever. I have not been able to find this feather again, so I used yarn flies for these kings. I used the same tie that I use for the Steelhead, I just used bright reds and oranges, to mimic an egg pattern. It worked fairly well. here are some pics from the last trip with my friend Steve.

 

  Steve is the one I have to give the credit to, for starting me out with the fly rod. I have been fishing with Steve now for over twenty years. When I was just a  young fisherman, catching fish in any way that I could, Steve in the one that took me aside and showed me that you can catch fish with a fly pole, and you can be very successful, if you learn how to do it right. Since then, I have been fly fishing with Steve, and it’s a great fishing partnership. Of course we have come to the point that when we see a fish, (if we can hold back from yelling "Fish in the Hole!")  we try to keep it to ourselves, knowing that if we say anything out loud, the other guy will have there line in the water before the words are spoken. So we play some games with each other out there when it comes to fish, but the time we spend together now is great, and we can fish together without any problems. We are both freaks when it comes to fish, so with that in mind, if we see a nice big one, the river gets quiet, and fishing is the only thing going on. The less Steve talks, the more I assume that he has a big fish in front of him, but I back off, you have to let a guy have one now and then.

 

  nice little King 

 

So good luck out there. Remember if you have a place you want to fish, and some people are saying that there is no fish, then go check it out for yourself’s. I found a gem of a fishery at Eagle Creek, I also have not seen another soul down there. So it is the best vacation ever.

 

FISH ON!!!!!

 

Flymstr;

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