Fishing Washington

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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