Looks like the rain is coming over the next couple of days and should shoot the rivers up high. What are your best peices of advice for fishing silvers in high water conditions?

Fish close in, right next to the bank. Big silvers love to hide behind boulders when the flow is high and off color. Fun stuff.

my favorite high water technique is to head to the saltchuck and try for blackmouth!

If your toes are underwater, you are standing on the fish.

Best trick I know is fish a #2 or #3 silver mor-tac (spoon).

The majority of the coho will hit it within ten feet of you when your reeling in. Don't be surprised to hook a lot of dollys this way too.
I'd suggest a medium fast retrieve.
Have fun.

I usually just let my wife take the hem out.

Hmmm......

Based on the NOAH projections, I get out the sandbags .....we are safe, but some downriver neighbors may not be (at the projected flow).

http://www.nwrfc.noaa.gov/river/station/flowplot/flowplot.cgi?CONW1

Sure hope they are wrong!

Mike

Take a few days off.........enjoy the holiday!!! When the rivers start to drop.........call in sick!!!!

1. Don't try any spinners, never work for these late coho.

2. No pink or orange plugs!!! Same as 1, they just don't work!!!

3. Matter of fact, just stay home........I'll fish for you.

"worse day sport fishing, still better than the best day working"

Time to get out the picture of the Chum swimming across the road.

I'd say that whatever worked for you during the lower water levels, do that...but...

1. Do it closer to shore
2. Make it a little bit bigger
3. Make it a little bit brighter

For me, that means step back and cast close, use a little larger chunk of eggs, and dig out the pink or rocket red cures and dyes, rather than the orange. Might also add a bit of yarn, or a corky, which I usually don't use...or a pink worm.

Fish on...

Todd

Depends on how high the water get's.Plunking suck's but maybe the only option,cast close to shore.Good luck,
STRIKE ZONE

i remember reading about those Michigan boys fishing one way in 1 inch of visability and a different way in 2 or 3 inches of vis. Around here someone who tried that would fish all alone, food for thought. When I was young and would fish no matter what under any conditions, caught many fish when the river was "out". My first steelhead came at Lewis St. with trees floating down the river, casting an unweighted sand shrimp directly upstream behind a root ball next to shore,I was too young to know any better. Now that I am older and know what I am doing I will stay home an feel sorry for myself 'cause the rivers are out.(sarcasm)

High Water is, "Honey, let's do something together" time, you fool!

Goes a long way to getting out when the water is good.

Mike~

I live close to you. Shoot me a PM if you need help sand bagging your place. I was stuck on the south side in Cape Horn for a couple days during the 1990 flood. Man that sucked! I was supposed to go duck hunting that day too.

Camo

Yeah, it only took 2 1/2 years, but I finally made it out to sea!

Thanks Camofish!

Actually, our home is on "high bank", and were totally safe unless it hits about 50', in which case all of Concrete proper, Marblemount and Rockport will be under water as well....

Last year (10/21), when the river hit 41.5' here at Concrete, it would have had to climb at least another 10' to get to the house. No worries here, but my concern is for those folks in Hamilton and Cape Horn on mid/low bank. Hamilton gets pounded every year, it seems.

One benefit of all the high water this year is that it has totally cleaned out our beach...as in there is hardly a grain of sand where just a few weeks ago there was a 20' wide beach. What was left is all the rocks, boulders (we never knew were there) and some great holding water for the fish....

Wife says "It isn't as pretty"....

I say...."SO???"

Mike

While the others are at home waiting for the waters to subside ,I'm fishing side channels .

"High Water is, "Honey, let's do something together" time, you fool!"

I remember a deluge of member newborns a bit ago. Who would wager that we could track back 9mos to the posts of these fishermen and see reports of poor fishing conditions combined with unexplained absences from teh board...

I've done just fine in high, dirt water for Steelhead but I'd stay home if it was for Salmon. Coho just don't seem to care about trying to find a lure or bait in dirty water, at least for me. Steelhead on the other hand are a whole different game. I've gotten Steelhead in zero vis on many occasions. The hardest part is staying positive when your fishing in mud, just isn't much like fishing emerald green, fishy water. I always go big red corky, lots of yarn, lots of eggs, good chuck of lead and fished close to the bank or on the seam. This set up has gotten me fish when the river has been pure cardboard.

For steelhead find a clean feeder creek and fish where it dumps into the dirty water plunking works very well under these circumstances. I know nobody likes to plunk(myself I like it all,drift fishing,float fishing,tossing spoons)what ever works I just enjoy being on the river