Today my cousin and I went out on the mouth of the washougal river. Great time shad fishing just usin the dick nites. a couple of fish in the 4-5 pound range. Lots of fun!!

Oh!! and we also had 3 double headers, those are even better and lots of fun!!

This Saturday, I will be down by Bonneville and would like to do some shad fishing. Can anyone tell me some good techniques/rigging for banking it for shad? I know dicknites are good and I've heard of something called a shad dart, but don't really know what it is. How about rigging? How do you want to rig your set up? How much weight, etc?

Where I was at in washougal, I was using a 2.5 ft dropper for my weight with 4 oz. I was using a dick nite with about 3 ft of leader

4-Salt... Did you make it down to Bonneville this year?

Looking for a place to fish my 6wt without having to worry about snagging ears every cast.

Looking for a place to fish my 6wt without having to worry about snagging ears every cast. Any suggestions? Preferably somewhere within a 3-3.5hr driving distance from Olympia.

I did Jeff, and it was business as usual! The dam counts had me a little worried at first, but the fish really pushed in by Saturday. Them little buggers sure are fun on the ultra-lights!

I made it to the Gorge, but for the concert not shad fishing. It's quite amazing how the Steve Perry and Dennis De Young stand-ins sound like the real thing. I did manage to fish Nunnally Lake for about an hour and saw some big trout, but no takers.

Sounds like fun! Any springer or sturgeon fishing?

Both! A side trip to the Wind river was both interesting and somewhat productive. Didn't land any oversize sturgeon this year, but we didn't fish for them very long either.

I hear that the concert was a pretty good time!

4Salt hit it right on the Wind. Maybe I will pick the right end of the river next year. Those Shad were fun though.

JacobF - I've only been a few times, right below Bonneville and used shad darts by themselves and sometimes with a little weight a couple feet above the dart for casting distance. Almost all the Mom & Pop stores along the way sell the darts. The best technique for me was to find a current seam where fast water met slow and toss your lure there. There will be plenty of people so you should be able to get the hang of it pretty quick. Get a hand full of darts because they are cheap and you can count on losing a few.

I took some trail down into the canyon on the Wind, thought I was going to slide off the cliff and die

This was my first year shad fishing, Thanks 4-Salt that rocked