i have finally got a couple of days off and the weather is going to be perfect, a little rain and wind, no yard work.

anyone had any reports the last couple of days where a bankie might run into some fish down here.
i have never fished these waters since mt st hellens blew up, so it has been a very long time.

had a trip planned last month with one of the fellows on this bb, but he got stuck working for the big "B" air plane company.

so give it up for an oldtimer newbee, whats hot, where and when.

thanks in advance!

elmtree

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I fished the Kalama this weekend and was slow. fished the red barn down to the begginers hole.
The cowlitz was very good for dteelhead. just below the blue creek hatchery

I fished the Lewis R. 5/20& 21 at the mouth in a boat. I saw maybe 15 fish hooked in the morning. Went up river to see how they were doing at the hatchery. Reports said they had been having good fishing in the morning.
Some summer runs mixed in with the springers.

thanks so much, it is still incouraging to see some fish being caught here.
what did you guy's hookup on with, plugs, spoons, bobber and jig/bait?

still got another day to find out what i need to take with me.

may spend the night in my truck. can you stay near the bank all night? or are there parking area's where i can pull up and crash for a couple of hours of shut eye?

which side is better for bank fishin, north or south side, which has best access?

help me pleaseeeee!!!

thanks again

elmtree


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Elmtree,I haven't been to the Lewis lately but I know the Kalama is still putting out fish ,there is lot of places above Prichards in the Canyon to pull off a catch some shut eye,I would start with a bait and float combo and go from there,lots of bank access up in the Canyon.Good Luck

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well folks, here i go, taking off saturday so i can find my way around. hope to see some of you down on the water.
i will most likely go to the kalama, just sounds like a better chance of getting something, anything. i have not caught anything this year; except for a vicious 8 inch steelie smolt near the end of the carbon season, hit the spinner like a brick.

going to buy shrimp tails at the store an doctor up with more scent.

good luck to all, have fun, fish-on

elmtree

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Fished the Kalama on Saturday the 27th. There have been and were some nice bright hatchery steelhead being caught up and down the river. On about the 24th, one guy caught a beautiful 18 lb. hatchery steelhead, there's a picture of it in the new tackle shop at Mahafey's (sp ?). We saw and heard of several other nice bright fish. We caught a 10 lb salmon very early early in the morning up in the canyon around painted rock and didn't get anything else the rest of the day.

fished early on Sunday in the canyon. Not a damn thing..........anyone else?

well, i am back from the kalama. really pretty area and good looking waters.
come to speak of the canyon, who in the hell is going to climb down those cliffs?

well it is real nice down by the beginners hole on sat. aboyt 12:00 i sat down just above and saw bankies and boaters hit and pull out some wounderful fish, i do not understand why bankie standing on rocks do not bring nets with them. half of the people whom hit fish had to try to hand grab or wait for someone else to try to bring a net over to them?

sunday was a different day, more clouds and rain and fish were off some. did get a good laugh, should not laugh at some one's else pain, but it looked so funny, there was this drift boat with 2 guy just below beginners in the head riffles. younger guy up front hooks into an nice king, all over the water, flying high. the older guy makes him go to the back of the boat so he can throw out while the other guy is fighting a fish. so the older guy throws into the same spot and bang, a double up. only now the younger guy is pulling real hard, the fish went down into the fast water going down stream. he is reefing so hard he crackers it off, then he falls ass over tea kettle backwards into the tail of boat, rod get flipped out into the river. he fishes it out the older guy looses his fish looking at his boat buddie. poor guy came up holding his wrist, thumped it hard on the aluminum boat gunnel. all i could see were the soles of his boots, looked like slow motion.

well i had a couple of good hits, not use to the light bite of the these big fish, took the bottom right out of my shrimp bag, came off the egg loop and was just hanging from the hook. close as i got all 2 days. thanks for all the info prior. i will be back.

elmtree

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