Salmon and Steelhead Trip - October

[Gaucho Fly]

A buddy and I took a trip up to the Salmon River in Pulaski a couple of weeks ago.  I know a few of you have either gone recently or plan to go, so I thought you all might enjoy hearing about the trip and seeing the video, which is my first attempt at trying to document my angling adventures.  We fished in the Douglaston Salmon Run (which has a great website and fishing report), and lucked out with some fantastic fishing for most of three days. If you go, be ready for some crowds, at least if you are chasing salmon.  Since you cant keep the steelhead, most of the crowds stop fishing after the salmon run ends, and leave the river much less crowded for those chasing steeheads and browns (which are infinitely more fun to catch anyway). Hope you like the video...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIauL-1VYo4&sns=em

 

[TurbineBlade]

Nice video!  I would have preferred Metallica's 1986 Master of Puppets for the soundtrack, but still very well done ;). 

 

I can't even picture catching massive fish like that on my fly rod.  What weight tacke do you use for that, 8? 

 

thanks for posting -- it helps me dream about going up to NY.

 

Gene

[Dubble Haul]

Very cool!

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[namfos]

Nice video.  Looks like a great trip.  Driven over the Salmon River on I-81 >100 times in last 30 years but never been there to fish it.  Need to fix that sometime. ;-)

[Dalton Terrell]

Great video, a few of us went up in the middle of last week and came back Sunday.Unfortunately, we can't report anything similar to that video, with none of us touching a targeted species. I am surprised to see that the DSR section looks like that, we mostly fished the upper fly stretch, which was raging at even 300 CFS (supposedly low water). I'll have to check out the DSR for at least a day when I'm back up.

Dalton

On Tuesday, October 30, 2012 7:54:03 PM UTC-4, Gaucho Fly wrote:

[Gaucho Fly]

Haha. Thats funny. Went through about 10 songs before deciding on this one.  Each changes the tone quite a bit.

We used 8 weights b/c of the salmon mostly, but can get away with a 6 or7 weight for steelhead. Since you are fishing light line, the lighter rods actually do a better job of protecting the tippet.  Still, you lose way more than you land!