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clearwater chinook report. - chrome_junky - 05-20-2012 made it out yesterday and today. the water is high but no wear near what it was last year during the salmon season. yesterday morning i fished the confluence just by memorial bridge with roe and tuna balls couldnt keep the squaw fish off the eggs and never touched anything else. yesterday evening i hit the road and worked my way up the river talking to people to figure out how high the fish have made it. i ended up talking to quite a few people (who were all friendly i might add.) from hog island all the way up to cherry lane and not a single person had touched any fish all day long. but all had said they heard of fish being caught on the northfork and up above it. this morning i made it out to a good hole up river around 7:00am fished with tuna balls a roe and again i couldnt keep the chicken peckers off the eggs. i had one solid hit but im not sure if it was a salmon or not. got a visit from a F&G counter and she told me she checked fish at 6:30 this morning on the north fork and at the boat ramp above orphino this morning. ( man the fish are moving fast.) i broke for lunch and headed back in to the valley. after some food and a little rest i got lucky and talked the wife and kids into heading out with me. we got to the spot around 3:30pm and started fishing. i decided i was tired of the egg thieves so i went with tuna balls all the way around. about a half hour later had my first on fought it for a little bit and pulled the hook as it made a mad dash down river using the swift current to its advantage. then around 6:00 pm i hooked another one i could tell right off the bat it was a good fish and i fought it for a good 10 minutes. it worked its way down stream around some submerged willows where i started to try and work the fish towards my wife waiting with the net. well just as my wife went to slide the net under the fish it spooked from the movment and dove right into the willows about three feet down. there was nothing i could do. fish looked like it would have made 20 lbs. at least my wife and kids got to get a good look at it before it got off. back to fishing again 7:45 pm hook up again this time the fish books it up stream wrong move in this hole fish i knew i had him as soon as he went up instead of down very short fight with lots of nasty head shakes and me turning the fish out of submerged willows. got it in front of my wife and she scooped up the nice wild fish. had to cut the line because both the main hook and trailer hook were buried in the fish and i wanted to get it back asap. a quick pic and the fish was back on its journey. fished for about 20 more minutes and never had any other bites. we will be back out first thing in the morning things are about to heat up around here. take a look at the pic bellow. [signature] Re: [chrome_junky] clearwater chinook report. - SteelFan - 05-20-2012 Nice fish Chrome. Wish I were there. Gonna be forever before we see a season here in Salmon. [signature] Re: [chrome_junky] clearwater chinook report. - cpierce - 05-20-2012 Pretty fish. All the wait and anticipate was worth it! [signature] Re: [cpierce] clearwater chinook report. - phutch30 - 05-20-2012 Sweet! good job [signature] Re: [chrome_junky] clearwater chinook report. - brownieguy - 05-21-2012 I'm sooo jealous! great looking fish. Wish it wasn't quite such a long drive to get up there and I could just run off and leave everything here for a week without any repercussions. Keep the reports coming. [signature] Re: [brownieguy] clearwater chinook report. - chrome_junky - 05-21-2012 Went out again today. hit the river around 6:00am and i'm just now getting back. I picked up a big hatchery male at 10:00am fish was around 20lbs give or take a few in any direction.that was the only thing I touched all day. 14 hours of fishing today.I have not done that in a long time. felt good to get out of the house for a day. now to fillet him and get a chunk of fillet on the grill. next weekend should be off the meat rack ladies and gents.pic of the fish bellow. [signature] Re: [chrome_junky] clearwater chinook report. - osprey02 - 05-21-2012 what a BRUTE! with over 8500 over lower granite yesterday and another 6500 today, it should really heat up above Lewiston next weekend for awhile, if the water flows cooperates [signature] Re: [osprey02] clearwater chinook report. - Huntsman - 05-21-2012 Where are you finding the fish counts for Granite. The FPC shows no totals for Friday or Sat.... [signature] Re: [chrome_junky] clearwater chinook report. - drowning_flys - 05-21-2012 Great report and fantastic pics [cool] [signature] Re: [drowning_flys] clearwater chinook report. - osprey02 - 05-21-2012 looks like they've changed the bonnie cam and columbia counts to a different web site and format and like most things the government does it may not be easier of better? [url "http://www.nwp.usace.army.mil/Missions/Environment/Fishdata.aspx"]http://www.nwp.usace.army.mil/Missions/Environment/Fishdata.aspx[/url] [signature] Re: [chrome_junky] clearwater chinook report. - chipmunksniper - 05-21-2012 Any boats picking up fish by the confluence? think i might head down there this wknd. numbers are looking good! [signature] Re: [chrome_junky] clearwater chinook report. - fishingrocket - 05-22-2012 CJ, Congrats and thanks for the report! FR [signature] Re: [fishingrocket] clearwater chinook report. - FindFish - 05-22-2012 They're definitely on their way here. The FPC can be a little slow in posting their counts, but they recorded 8,452 on Saturday and 6,402 on Sunday. Toby from Reel Time has an encouraging post on FindFish. He's expecting some good weeks ahead. [signature] Re: [FindFish] clearwater chinook report. - osprey02 - 05-22-2012 The River may BLOW~OUT or at least slow things down for this weekend [:/] [url "http://water.weather.gov/ahps2/hydrograph.php?wfo=mso&gage=orfi1"]http://water.weather.gov/ahps2/hydrograph.php?wfo=mso&gage=orfi1[/url] [signature] Re: clearwater chinook report. - iliketofish - 05-24-2012 If anybody's wondering, I drove up to the Lochsa today for work. There didn't seem to be much going on on the upper Clearwater, but just above Orofino we saw two boats sharing a hole. Both boats had fish on! I was jealous... Anyway, just passing on the info. The water below Kooskia was a little turbid, but not too bad, definitely fishable. [signature] Re: [iliketofish] clearwater chinook report. - osprey02 - 05-25-2012 heading over tmorrow for a week or so of nooking. I can almost taste 'em already [signature] Re: [chrome_junky] clearwater chinook report. - FISHAMANIAC801 - 05-25-2012 Nice Looking Steelie !! That ought to be your new avatar !!![] [signature] Re: [FISHAMANIAC801] clearwater chinook report. - osprey02 - 05-25-2012 thanks, but It's one of the Nooks from last spring, note the high-water and greenery. The wife myself and my two sons filled the freezer last year tagging 41 out of the Orofin area. [signature] Re: [iliketofish] clearwater chinook report. - chrome_junky - 05-26-2012 The Clearwater is fishing excellent right now. There are fish spread through out the whole river from the confluence to orifino. My wife landed her first springer this morning. I almost got in trouble for posting the picture but I talked her into it. Something about her hair not being done no makeup and rocking a pair of her husbands polarized sunglasses didn't thrill her. Pic bellow . [signature] Re: [chrome_junky] clearwater chinook report. - phutch30 - 05-26-2012 Nice! Are you plunking to catch them? [signature]