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Fishing Report
It's quickly turned into a strange late-summer on the Columbia River, with salmon angling at Buoy 10 a near-total bust, yet the chinook bite pretty good at several popular upstream locations. Here's how it was at Buoy 10 in the past few days, based on sampling by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife: Sunday, 327 anglers with four chinook and 10 coho; Monday, 99 anglers with three chinook and eight coho; Tuesday, 99 anglers with two chinook, three coho. Most years, the bite at Buoy 10, the name for the lower 16 miles of the Columbia, is much, much better than farther upstream. The slow start at Buoy 10 in mid-August was written off to the chinook being late, but by now the bite upstream and counts at Bonneville Dam make it obvious the salmon are on their way; they're just not biting like they normally do in the estuary.
Kingennie return provides some testing encounters
IT'S been some time since I last visited Forbes of Kingennie in Dundee and what a transformation - it has been turned into a complete fishing village. Apart from the specimen pond, my own personal favourite, there are several other ponds which include game and coarse angling. Although by no means big, the specimen pond can be quite a testing casting experience for the less able of anglers but cooler conditions and clear water have made the trout start to chase the odd lure once again. .
Fly fishing smallies in the fading summer
It's unbelievable how some years are dominated by certain types of fishing. Some years the surf is hot for stripers or blues. Some years trout fishing is hot in the streams. This year the hottest fishery going in freshwater is the smallmouth fishing in the rivers and streams throughout New Jersey. While most fly fishermen consider fishing for trout the ultimate sport, one day with a good dose of bronzeback with a buggy whip just might make them think twice. If I had to pick one fish that was my all-time favorite to catch, Ol' Mr. Bronzeback would be at the top of the list. Pound-for-pound, inch-for-inch, there is no better fighting fish to be found in the sweet water. While smallies are found both in the still waters of a lake or reservoir, they especially are feisty when they are found in the current environment of a river or large stream.
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