coming from HWY 20 head north on Farm to Market Rd, turn left on Boe RD and park wherever you can (on the right hand side of the road). One side of the road is no parking @ anytime, when they put the signs up a few years ago a lotta people got tix because they got there fore dawn and didn't see the signs. There's a farm there and the owner lets people cross his land to the river. Most people fish downstream of the farm; walk to the river along the fence line next to his house. Don't climb over fences if you can go thru them, pick-up any trash that you see and don't fish from the guys property right in front of his house (No Trespassing sign, you can walk thru there to go up/down river) and try not to get upset w/the snaggers/liners. Most popular and probably most productive spot is downstream from the farm where a fence crosses the dike. Second most popular is the 100 yd.s or so just downstream from the farm. Also, on the opposite side of the river @the first bend in the river below the farm often produces fish. Most popular method is to fish the last two hours of the outgoing tide w/big gobs of gooey, runny eggs rolled/drifted along the bottom w/no weight. I've had extremely good luck w/size 3-6 spinners also. Check the reg.s, night closure and non-buoyant-lure rules in effect.
This river was closed due to snagging and garbage for a number of years but, if I remember correctly, the Wildcatter (sp?) Steelhead Club (of Sedro Wooly) successfully lobbied the state to open it up and in fact policed the river the first couple of years.
I used to fish further downstream near the deadline bridge but went there one morning 3 or 4 yrs ago and there were probably a hundred or more cars parked there. Haven't returned to that stretch of river since. Excuse long post but here's a fish story about the first time I fished the Samish.
Me and two buddies arrived in the afternoon of a bright sunny day. We were ignorant of river fishin methods for kings. Luckily the river (ditch) was droppin (tide goin out). We threw everything in the tackle box @the kings that were stacked like cordwood in the hole. My buddies wanted to give-up in fact they were highly pissed that w/so many fish in the river we couldn't seem to hook any. Anyway the only thing I hadn't tried was a hotshot. Tied it on, let it float downriver a ways below the fish, started crankin it in and wham! fish on. We pretty much hooked fish on every cast after that (my buddies cop car hot shot was the best producer that day). As I said, being ignorant we also neglected to bring a net, but if one of us laid on our belly in the mud while the guy w/the fish on held the fish up against the pilings we could just barely reach the water and tail the fish. While pinning a fish against the pilings I noticed that it wuz lightly hooked in the vicinity of the dorsal fin and thought gee that hook might come loose (while holding these 15-25 lb kings against the pilings our rods were bent nearly to the breaking pt.) Well you probably guessed it-the hook came out and buried itself in my bud's nose. It was hilarious! He's a big baby, so even tho we cut the lure off and could have taken what wuz left of the hook out of his nostril w/no muss no fuss, he insisted on going to the emergency room. After a trip to the hospital we thought about returning to the river but in our ignorance (arrogance) we decided to watch the remainder of the Huskies game and suck down sum brews, because, "we had the method down and could go back the next day and catch the s**t out of em". We went back the next day, same conditions eggzactly and couldn't hook a fish-those salmon are funny that way aren't they?
Hope you-all found sum humor in this-
Roger
[This message has been edited by RRR (edited 09-15-2000).]
[This message has been edited by RRR (edited 09-15-2000).]
_________________________
"Man can learn a lot from fishing. When the fish are biting, no problem in the world is big enough to bne remembered. " -- Oa Battista
VERY Homesick in San Diego
Previous Topic
Index
