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Post by fredaevans on Jan 16, 2010 21:25:05 GMT
Woozer! The upper river is loading up with fish. Last two weeks of December (through the fish counter at Gold Ray dam just north of Medford, Or) ..... 661 fish. The first EIGHT days of January? Just short of another 1800!
And this is just the first of the winter run steelhead season.
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Post by kingfisher on Jan 17, 2010 10:19:02 GMT
Woozer! The upper river is loading up with fish. Last two weeks of December (through the fish counter at Gold Ray dam just north of Medford, Or) ..... 661 fish. The first EIGHT days of January? Just short of another 1800! And this is just the first of the winter run steelhead season. What average weight do these Steel heads get to Fred and are do they take readily? KF |
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Post by keirstream on Jan 17, 2010 23:53:39 GMT
Any pacific salmon in this burn Fred?
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Post by fredaevans on May 2, 2010 4:04:57 GMT
Sorry for the lack of update. End game for winter steelhead into the top 30 miles of the Rogue (only actual fish counter in the whole system) topped out at just over 10,000 fish. Of that 10K, right at FIVE THOUSAND of them came through the counter in about 5 days!!! ;D The spring run of King Salmon is just starting to show up here in the upper River. From the reports of fellows fishing the mouth of the river (150'ish miles down stream) it looks like it could be a reasonable return. But no way to know that for at least another month.  Fred |
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Post by fredaevans on May 10, 2010 2:01:16 GMT
And they just keep coming, and coming! Most recent Winter Steelhead count is now well in excess of 13,000 fish into THE TOP 30 MILES OF RIVER. You do the math on how many per mile that represents.
Well, they're all headed full steam ahead into the top waters so the top 10'ish miles below Wm Jess Dam. Fishing for them up there is an interesting process as they're only running 730 cfs out of the dam so water is very low and gin clear. Which makes for very spooky fish to say the least.
Hooked/released three late Friday AM/early PM, but an odd place and way to fish. There's a main highway bridge about .5 miles down from the hatchery and I know fish like to lay in the shade under the bridge.
Only way I could get there attention was by staying completly out of the water and bouncing a light bead head fly off the concrete bridge abutments. Plop into the river .. and Game ON! ;D ;D Was very surprised that I could put that stunt three times in 20 yards of river
fae
Edit: Forgot to add, with the low flows, it's going to be quite awhile before the Spring King Salmon show up in any numbers. But I can wait ......
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Post by fredaevans on Jun 6, 2010 4:26:57 GMT
Going to be a bit before anyone's using a fly rod here on the upper Rogue. 'Huge' series of rain storms blew through the area (and we just got the very bottom end of same) have our rivers spinning out of speed. Many areas on the SW Oregon Coast got 3-5 inches of rain in under 24 hours. Local rivers from LOW and clear to just under flood stage. Well under 3,000 cfs is the 'usual number,' but now? You could run the "Queen Mary" up the river. water.weather.gov/ahps2/hydrograph.php?wfo=mfr&gage=rygo3&rssDate=1272872700 |
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Post by fredaevans on Jun 13, 2010 0:45:35 GMT
GOOD NEWS! River's dropping like a rock: waterdata.usgs.gov/usa/nwis/uv?site_no=14339000River's running 'gin clear' and shortly, very, very shortly will be in great fly rod levels. But, at 3,000 cfs you're talking 10wts and full sinking lines (or the new one in the mail to me now!!??) The Spring Salmon count over Gold Ray dam has just gone nuts, so fish we have lots of. With the current's at present (and will probably be that way for another month or two a 12-20'ish pound King Salmon is a very interesting thing to keep on the end of your line. In most places you'll fish, running room is at a minimum so it's 15-20 pound tippet and stand there and 'fight it out.' Which is a bit odd as I'm going to release the fish anyway. 'It's all about the hunt?' fae Edit: A bit out of date, but the Gold Ray count is taken about 5-6 miles from my front door. From there, there's about 30 miles of river left till they hit the Wm Jess Dam. If you click on earlier dates, you'll get the winter Steelhead counts (14,000+ in to 30 miles of water!!) www.dfw.state.or.us/fish/fish_counts/gold_ray_dam.asp |
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Post by fredaevans on Jun 28, 2010 8:50:44 GMT
Well, the numbers just keep climbing. Our Spring King run is now well over 14,000 fish in the upper 30 miles of the Rogue River. Better yet, we're at almost 1,000 Summer run Steelhead. Good part about that last number is usually it isn't in that range for another month. Indicator of a strong run?  fae |
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Post by kingfisher on Jun 28, 2010 11:34:11 GMT
Well, the numbers just keep climbing. Our Spring King run is now well over 14,000 fish in the upper 30 miles of the Rogue River. Better yet, we're at almost 1,000 Summer run Steelhead. Good part about that last number is usually it isn't in that range for another month. Indicator of a strong run? fae Fred, how does 14000 compare to "normal" years or at the same period? |
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Post by fredaevans on Jul 16, 2010 0:05:00 GMT
Bit larger than last year, but the numbers keep climbing. No idea why but the 'runs' in every place else in Canada (BC), Washington and Northern Oregon are 'so-so.' But the numbers of fish going into the Columbia River system (Snake/Clearwater/etc) and the Rogue are 'off the charts..'
Given these guys swim in the same Ocean, eat at the same/similar places/etc., who knows?
Fred
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Post by fredaevans on May 3, 2011 22:18:14 GMT
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