I am desperately trying to find someone willing to give me the low down on the upper Quinalt and Queets. Launches, take-outs, pressure...etc. I will be up there for a three day weekend starting Saturday. You can e-mail me if preferred. Any insight would be appreciated!

Thier bolth easy drifts just watch out which braid you take on the Quinalt and for log jams on the Queets.On the Quinalt there are ramps along the north and south shore roads.Some people put in right off the road along the southshore.Drive up the Queets road and youll find ramps all the way up.What are your plans I'll be there myself,maybe we could hook up?

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release native steelhead!!

Hey RiverWalker-
Thanks for the info. I have a full boat for this trip, but if you have a boat we could shuttle. Interested? You can e-mail me for more details if that sounds like a possibility. I heard the take-out on the Queets at 101 is rough. Do you know?
Thanks again

Streeters to Hartzel"s (SP?) on the Queets is a nice float. Stay left when you go through the rapids above the old Kings bottom area. There are no secrets drifts, expect company, but more important be
careful it can get a little tight, there are some LARGE rocks!!!

The take at 101 is a little more than rough, It is on the reservation. You must be talking about the Clearwater take out. You need to haul your boat up a steep ledge, 15'
you will need strong rope.

OK, MAYBE THIS IS A DUMB QUESTION, IS THERE ANYWAY TO FISH THIS RIVER WITHOUT BEING ON RESERVATION LAND? AND IF SO WHAT ARE THE BOUNDARIES, IVE NEVER BEEN THERE BUT WOULD LIKE TO GO SOON, I HAVENT BOUGHT A LISCENSE YET THIS YEAR, BUT WOULD LIKE A REASON TO GO FISHING AGAIN.. THANKS FOR ANY INFO AND IF ANYONE HAS A OPEN SPOT AND DONT MINDSOMEONE TAGGING ALONG, (I WOULD CHIP IN FOR GAS/TACKLE AND ALL THAT.) SO IS THERE ALOT OF BANK ACCESS FOR THE QUINALT WITHOUT BEING ON THE RESERVATION? **BERKLEY BOY**

You can fish most of the upper Quinault river. Public access is pretty much from the Park side - North Shore Rd..
Most of the South Shore Rd. is private, and more land is posted all the time.
Watch out around the Big Creek area (washout) it has been sold to Carlson and Lutz and they are a couple of pickle smokers. They own from the base of the hill on the South shore to the park boundary on the North shore.
Be sure to take a camera. It is nice country and there are a few elk an bear along the river.

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"Just Say No To Sovereign Nations!"

Gentlemen-

As someone that has been fortunate enough to fish these two areas before the crush of recent years, please let me give the following suggestions. Neither of these rivers can take any harvest. Even though our zipper heads "in charge" give the right for sport anglers to take native steelhead, I beg you to release these irreplaceable fish. Queets and Quinault native fish are two of the finest races of steelhead on the West Coast. Both streams have been clobbered the last few winters from trophy hunters and fishermen that are only there to whack natives, the bigger the fish the better. These large strains need our protection. If you go, please leave the bait at home. These fish aggressively take drift lures without bait. Give bank anglers room and respect their water. The Queets is becoming a hell hole of native killing, rude boat fishermen and it truly makes me sad to see the most gorgeous river in the state turn into another Wynooche.


The best way to help these streams is to write letters to the state and to the superintendent of Olympic National Park, telling them to make these streams- our last bastion of large, aggressive native steelhead- not go the way of the Skagit, Sky and Sauk. Make them catch and release, and please get rid of the bait! Thanks for letting me vent.

Bill.

Schitzo, dude your license is still good. Go out and wet a line...

Spoonman, I feel your pain!

These rivers are the gems Washington State and the state,tribes, and Oly National Park are not doing what needs to be done to save these fish.

There used to be phenomenal runs of summer& winter steelies/springers/summer and fall kings and every other anadromous species of fish.

Roosevelt saved the land for the elk, but ended up saving the spawning habitat for the fish as well.

Enjoy the river!



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