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[Riverman]

 Headed out to the chehalis at first light as usual,even though with the rain I knew better.What's a guy to do when he has the day off and has the fever?Coho that is. I will get to the rivers in a moment .First let me relay a persnal tragedy that befell me on the way.Maybe it can serve as a heads up to others by sharing it.Here's the scenario,approaching turn off to nicomen island misses turn and t-bones innocent older gent who is just minding own business out for a coffee with his buddy.In the rain and glare I didn't recognize the turn I thought it was a side road and too late realized it was a turn in the road!Ouch! Luckily no-one was hurt But the old gents minivan is totaled.I just had minor damage to my pick-up.One half second later I may have struck the drivers side not just the front.This thought does not give me comfort.Please just be careful out there.
     Anyway the chehalis is currently blown out.Acouple of days I guess before it clears and drops enough for coho fishing.Suicide Creek the same but worse, seems the steeper run produced heavier rainfall.The vedder is blown out top to bottom but I did see some guys at the hatchery catching some dark fish and some tomatoes.No doubt there are fish in the side channels and that is where they will likely stay until the river drops and clears somewhat.

   Good Luck and be careful on and away from the water.
Riverman

[Athezone]

Sorry to hear about your misfortune Riverman. That road to Chehalis can be dangerous in the rain. But I guess any
road can be and your words of caution should definitely be heeded. Thanks for the reports on all 3 of those locales, I'm certain you've saved a few fisherman a wasted drive. Thanks Riverman.

[The Gilly]

Fished the Chehalis Canyon on Saturday and got nothing but dogs.  I had good reports from the last week of Oct., but saturday sucked ( for fish).  Still a good day though, clean air, nice river, great freind, and no phone service

[oddjob]

fished the bible run with 40 other fisherman, fished from 7:30 till 11:30 all i seen hooked were chum.

[oddjob]

I forgot to say this was last sunday. lots of people no cohos caught that i could see.

[Sterling C]

Sounds like the same story everywhere. Here's some pics of the chocolate milk that is my local flow.

[fishermanphil]

Was at the Stave - Water was good clarity My partner got one wild Ho and another fellow also got 1 wild from shore. Guy in boat comes in with his partner and they have thier limit -Ho,s and chum. Move to the slough-Up and Dirty Went back to the Stave and played the chum on the flys

[coffeegrinder]

Hey Riverman, did the chehalis campground blow out as well ? I'm going camping there this weekend ! I guess if I see chum booting across the road like a few years back , that will tell me what the shape of things will be lol .  ?

[Sterling C]

Went back to my same spot pictured above. Unfortunatley the water was still just as high, however, the visibuility was much better at about 1 ft. Fished for about a hour and got 3 coho, 1 rainbow and one cutty. One coho and the rainbow were taken on a dicknite spoon. The cutty was caught on a jensen egg. And the other two coho were caught on size 2 blue foxes, one pink one red. Here's some pics. Enjoy.

[ahans]

God score Biff.......nice pics. Thanks for sharing.

[Koho]

Those are some nice pics bc.  Good closeup of the wild trout.

[summersteel]

Nicely done BC

[coffeegrinder]

Nice fish bc ! Where were you ? what river.

[CAPTAIN BONK]

IT LOOKS LIKE A LOCAL CREEK...................... KEEP THE DESTINATION ON A DOWN LOW KID ! OUR CREEKS HAVE ENUFF PRESSURE AS IT IS ALREADY !

[Sterling C]

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