11 in E Chip for Salmon

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Sept. 21, 2008

Warm water and dredging moved the fishing out to deeper water for a second week. This past week we fished from 90 to 180 foot of water and some boats fished as far out as 240 foot of water. The catch consisted of 2, 3 and 4 year old chinook salmon, lake trout, some coho and an occasional steelhead. Boats that fished the 200 to 240 foot depth found a few steelhead in the upper water column.

We fished deep for the fish--80 to 140 foot down. The best method was 11 inch echip flashers (white/glow, green/glow and silver) with Rapture wild fern and green dude flies pulled on the downriggers at 100 to 140 foot. For the first time in a month we started consistently catching fish on Stingray spoons (glow frog and natural born killer) on 300 and 400 foot of copper.

Our season is winding down, however there are a lot of 4 year old salmon is the deeper water that are waiting for colder water. This could be one of those years when the fish will "stagger" is a little at a time for a couple of months unless we get and keep some cold water. For information and charter reservations--email me at [email protected].