Update posted August 16, 2011

The majority of the fish are still out deep at 300 plus feet of water in a small column of 40 to 80 feet down.  Silver and green dodgers with frog flies are coming back again with chartreuse dodgers and spoons also working well.  Large schools of bait fish seem to be holding the large four year salmon from coming in closer to shore.  This will end very shortly because the four year olds are showing signs that spawning is near at hand and they will come into the shallows for their staging areas near the river mouth.  The lake front has extremely warm water which is around 72 degrees and has not turned over yet.  This has happened in the past and when the four year olds are ready to spawn, water temperature has seemed to have nothing to due with there location so we expect the same this year.  I expect there will be a lot of aggressive huge salmon in 40 – 70 feet in the next week or two.

Captain Ted Wiesman

Update posted August 4, 2011

Near shore Salmon Fishing has been spotty.

Consist action  for rainbow trout is occurring in water depths over 300’. Rainbows are being caught from the surface down to 50’. Pink or  green spoons are the best bets.

Chinook salmon are also being caught at the same time. Salmon are 45’ to 130’. Flasher/ flies combos are producing the salmon.

Captain Brian Ebben

Update Posted Jul 14, 2011

Now with the northern currant we have 63 degree surface temperature and bait fish concentrated in 80 – 120 feet.  The bait fish are so thick that our sonar shows a false bottom averaging about 40 feet.  Yes, 30 – 50 feet thick of bait with salmon all around gorging. No wonder we can't get them to eat lures…

What we need is a storm to scatter the bait fish and salmon so they are hungry…

Captain Ted Wiesman

Update Posted on Jul 13, 2011

The bite has slowed down for the time being due to a substantial northern currant which somehow dropped the surface water temperature to 55 degrees.  Small bands of fresh bait fish floating around, due to thermal shock, are making it tough to get fish on the rods. 80' to 130' seems to be the most effective water band with rainbows and coho salmon on the surface and king salmon located very close to the bottom. Flashers with green/silver continue to be the most effective on the kings and bright colored spoons ran on the surface for the rainbows will give you a starting point.

Captain Ted Wiesman

Update posted on Jul 5, 2011

Chinook Salmon and Rainbow Trout Fishing continues to be good. Fishing between 130' and 300'. Rainbows are being caught in the top 30' . With the salmon being caught between 55' to 130' down. Spoons behind planer boards are catching the majority of the rainbows. Flasher \Fly combinations have been effective on the salmon. Coho salmon and Lake Trout are also being caught .

Captain Brian Ebben

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