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Title: Chehalis river Dec. 17, 2007
Post by: lucky on December 17, 2007, 06:38:09 PM

  In the last couple days I have noticed some fresh looking coho on the Chehalis hatchery cam, and with the bit of rain lately I was excited to head out for the first time this season. As we arrived at the river our excitement soon turned to disappointment as there was hardly any water going past the hatchery.  We would Spend the next three hours hiking, and fish for 20 minutes or so without any luck and decide to call it a day.

  Walking back we ran into another angler who was doing better than we were, he had four coho on the beach. Although he was using a slightly different setup than we were, it appeared to be one of those bottom bouncing things with the six foot leader and about 4 feet from the weight to the float, it was clearly working for him but seemed a little odd because the water was only one foot deep? In passing I had suggested that he keep some of the fish lying dead on the river bottom because they appeared to be in better shape than the ones he had retained, and as we parted ways I turned around to see this other angler poking around in the river with a big stick. LOL.

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Title: Re: Chehalis river Dec. 17, 2007
Post by: nosey on December 17, 2007, 08:53:03 PM

Too bad you couldn't get the guy to pose with his catch for a photo we can always use a little humor on here. Nice day to be out fishing though.

Title: Re: Chehalis river Dec. 17, 2007
Post by: kosanin kosher salt on December 21, 2007, 06:38:02 PM

haha cammer i thought i was the only guy building small channels to divert water to the hatchery, one time when i lifted one rock
 had a hook lodged completely into my index finger (good thing it was barbless)the water was so cold i didnt feel it when i pulled it out

Title: Re: Chehalis river Dec. 17, 2007
Post by: kosanin kosher salt on December 21, 2007, 06:41:10 PM

hey everyone on fwr , we should all get together and build our own dam on the chehalis

Title: Re: Chehalis river Dec. 17, 2007
Post by: kosanin kosher salt on December 21, 2007, 06:51:54 PM

Call it the Brotherhood Strawberry Dam

Title: Re: Chehalis river Dec. 17, 2007
Post by: BigFisher on December 21, 2007, 07:06:51 PM

Did you check out the lake?

Title: Re: Chehalis river Dec. 17, 2007
Post by: BigFisher on December 22, 2007, 03:28:38 AM

Quote from: cammer on December 22, 2007, 01:03:11 AM

basically youll be able to walk to the harrison

Lol  :o

Title: Re: Chehalis river Dec. 17, 2007
Post by: kosanin kosher salt on December 22, 2007, 09:30:56 AM

no way  :o

Title: Re: Chehalis river Dec. 17, 2007
Post by: stlhd4ever on December 22, 2007, 12:36:02 PM

You can walk to the harrison already if you really want to ;D

Title: Re: Chehalis river Dec. 17, 2007
Post by: Kelso on December 22, 2007, 01:52:52 PM

Nice pics Lucky :)

Title: Re: Chehalis river Dec. 17, 2007
Post by: fish bonk on December 27, 2007, 04:35:50 PM

Come on Cammer spill the beans. Are the natives going to start a gravel extraction business ::)