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Umpqua salmon fishing improving
Chinook salmon and coho have been caught in the Umpqua River estuary in the last couple of weeks.
Upriver, smallmouth bass fishing has been reported as excellent in both the main Umpqua and the South Umpqua. On the North Umpqua, the summer steelhead fishing is improving.
Following are reports from sources who deal with the fisheries on a daily basis.
"I'm been hearing some pretty good reports about salmon being caught in the 101 bridge area. I've heard there have been some 30- to 40-pounders caught. Apparently the fish are in the bay. People are trolling herring for them.
"The ocean has been rough for salmon fishing.
"Up here in the Elkton area, the bass fishing has been really good, and there has been a few steelhead going through.
My other life - Robert Croft
I'm basically a boy from the country, from Hendy in West Wales. It's something I started doing in those long school holidays in the summer. My grandfather fished, my father fished and it just gets handed down like playing rugby in Wales is handed down from generation to generation. What was your first fish?
Like a cricketer I started with a net. My parents took me down to the local river and I caught a trout. I didn't know at the time that they had taken out it of the freezer earlier. But I didn't care I was, er, hooked after that. What sort of fishing do you specialise in?
Although I do some sea fishing I mainly fly fish. A friend of mine owns a stretch on the River Tawe and that's where you will see me going after salmon and sea trout. What has been your biggest catch?
My biggest fish to date was a beautiful 15lb salmon I landed last September at a stretch of river in Capel Dewi in Carmarthen - one of the most prolific sea trout rivers in the UK.
The art of rod fishing
Several times a year while fishing on the Delta, I've ran across people still using bamboo fishing poles. I've often wondered how they managed to fish with such out-dated equipment with any success. While observing them for a while it was clear that they were completely comfortable with their equipment and had mastered their technique. Most of the people I saw would have a metal roller on the tip of the pole for the line to travel across and a tin can used to spool their line wound on the outside. Their poles were 10 or more feet in length and instead of casting they would extend the pole as far out as they could and drop their bait strait down without disturbing the water. Delta legend and bass fishing hall of fame member Dee Thomas invented a technique called flipping that uses a similar technique.
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