All Around Angler

Note from the Founder: Special thanks to Superman Christopher Reed for emailing in this most excellent post to me for publishing. He is quickly learning how to produce results in this river game we play. Christopher Heller


By Christopher Superman Reed

“I was fortunate enough to get the invite to go side-drifting with my buddy for two days in a row [horrible pun intended ha ha] at the coast. We each ended up CR’ing a native winter the first day as well as a nice Chinook and a handful of coho. Four of the coho bit yarnie/eggs in faster steelhead water so they were a bit of a surprise, but all were chrome bright and fun for sure! The second day we fished a little lower and ended up with 3 chromers including my fish in the picture and a hatchery hen that was pretty colored up. All steel were taken on yarnie/eggs except for one that went for the bobber/jig.

I gotta say all the credit for this trip goes to my buddy. He knows the river and consistently put the boat in the right place for us to fish effectively. I did pay attention as best i could though and here are some observations:



*We caught fish on every color yarnie we threw.
*All yarnies bit were tipped with fresh eggs.
*The one bobber fish came on a naked jig.
*We fished a lot of good holes really well for no bites.
*We caught all 6 fish out of two individual 50-yard stretches of river, miles apart.
*It was cold as hell. Frost on the bank never melted.
*The water was low and clear.
*All our fish came out of classic riffle and pocket steelhead water.
*We fished from dawn to dark both days.
*5 of 6 fish caught between the two days were between noon and 2pm.

Hope this helps some All Around Anglers get into fish this weekend!

Reed”

Photo and commentary provided by Christopher Reed for All Around Angler.com
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