Thursday, October 9, 2014

American River Salmon

Anyone on here who has me as a friend on
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knows I've been fishing practically every day, sorry I haven't gotten around to writing reports, but fishing everyday and going to school has been wearing me out. All worth it though. Here we go recap on the past couple of weeks.

There has been a pretty steady run of fish on the AR for a while now. Most mornings I would hook into 3-5 fish, how many would I land though? None. Due to fast water and bright heavy fish they have been putting up one hell of a fight this year and they just don't give up. I've had at least two fish now that were easily 30+lbs nearly spool me and wrap me up under a rock by the time I could gain any line back on em. All last week I fished every day, but was only able to land one fish over the course of 7 days.

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A jack that might have barely weighed in at 3lbs.

It was released in hopes of bigger fish to fill my limit with. I definitely hook more then my limits worth that day. Just couldn't get em to the shore. This past week the flows have come down on the AR which wasn't by much but it really effected our fishing. Before the flow drop we had fishing pushing through the system until 1200 on some days, since then if you don't have your fish by 0900 its over. There are still fish moving through but not in as big of
numbers and we are entering a lull in number of fish. Better news I have been able to land two this week even with a less amount of hook ups throughout the day.

This hen on Tuesday,

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and a buck this morning.

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Nice bright clean silver fish all have scales on em.

So far the way it seems for me I've been having a lot more quality salmon over quantity. Which is great! I love seeing these bright silver scaled fish in our system and I might not be landing as many, but the extra challenge its taking to land these fish is incredibly exciting and well worth the extra work.

It might not really be hot yet, but don't let anyone tell you different they are here and the time is now. Salmon Season baby!

Till Next Time Guys
Mark

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