Fishing Washington

   Winter Silver fishing is in full swing.  Days catches are varying from 2 to 10 fish a day.  The trick is catching the rivers between the heavy rain storms and river level swings.  The fish are coming into the rivers chrome bright and willing to strike.  Winter fishing is a hardware game.  Eggs and other bait will work but plugs rule supreme for drawing strikes.   We throw plugs in the deeper holes, backtroll them in moderate and fast current areas, and troll them in slow water holes.  Fatfish, Wiggle Warts, and Brad Wigglers all work.  I prefer dark metallic plugs in clear water and fluorescent orange and Pink in tannin colored or murky water.   Winter Steelhead are starting to show up all of our rivers and fishing will be hot in another week with steady catches of fish happening all the way into March and April.

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The Chehalis River is producing limits of silvers on the hot days.  The key to the Chehalis systems is to watch the river levels.  Make sure it is dropping or holding steady before you fish it. I spend my time throwing wiggle warts and fatfish, along with spinners to the banks and around logs on the Chehalis.  I cover a lot of water searching for the Silvers.  Once I find a good concentration of fish I stay on them and work the water hard until the fish turn on and hit the gear.  Bites often come in short flurries with lulls, so be patient and you will put fish in the boat.

Late run silvers are big and mean on this river.  The Chehalis has a strong run of both hatchery and native Silvers and it is open for retention of both types of Coho.  This year the Chehalis was also open for Native Chinook.  The State decided the runs were strong enough to sustain a short season.  That fishery is closed now, but the fish were huge and the fishery while not spectacular was steady.  WDFW is expected to open another short season next year.  The Chinook were running large this year and the shots are of a nice fish and a monster that weighed 52lbs.  Both Chinook shown in the pictures were returned to the river health and strong.  Fish of this size need to be allowed to spawn to create future generations of giant fish.  

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We had yet another hot day on the Cowlitz.  The hot bite has been steady on plugs for two weeks now.  We hammered all our fish on this day on dark mettalic plugs.  Fatfish / Wiggle Warts/ and Brads Wigglers have all been producing.  Quite a few people have been on the water each day and lots of different colors have been working.  A client even pulled a silver on a new glow fatfish early one morning. 

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Cowlitz River Fishing is Red Hot with multiple fish days being the norm.  Silver fishing in the Cowlitz and Lewis Rivers is game on, with a 6 Coho limit per day on the Cowlitz.  The customers have been averaging 3 fish per person. Full limits of SIlvers are possible every day.  The fishing will stay hot for at least two more weeks and then I will be shifting the fishing trips north to the Satsop River.  Once the rains hit and the Satsop river rises the late run Coho will be in all the way into January.

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