Salmon River, Mexico Point 9/24

[champy1013]

Went up out of Mexico in the afternoon with Ray R. - lake as calm as can be. Ran to the mouth of the Salmon river, trolled with the other boats in anywhere from 10-20' of water. Wasn't marking anything, no hits on the riggers (running J-plugs on the boards, spoons on the riggers). Ran out to 90-100' near the plant - marked a few bait pods, but the screen soon cleared up.

Came back in near the mouth of the river with the throng of about 20 boats, including some people paddling river drifting boats with planar boards. Had a nice hit on the j-plug down 5' on the rigger in about 11' of water. The salmon were everywhere in shore - jumping and breaching the surface just west of the river mouth. Only saw one fish boated - it looked pretty quiet. Talked to a few other people - one fish seemed to be the max of the day.

Lots of dead/dying fish on the surface - even some really silver ones. We definately need some rain. Haven't seen anyone fishing the river.

maybe back this weekend?

[empty hook]

hey champy, on saturday morning we fished the same area but we found all the fish to be south of the river from slkirk shores to half way to the river. fished in 20-30 fow down 5-15 on the riggers with jplugs and spoons down the middle. flat lined jplug never moved. our biggest taker was the wire dipsey with a size 0 dipsey with out the ring out 80-100 feet with a green echip and glow green fly. took 4 rips on this rig, 1 on a glow savant spoon and 3 on jplugs. the fish are there deffinatly everyone was hooking up down there, but as soon ans the sun comes out the bite is done. get there before sun up in the dark and have your lines set and glow all charged up. from 6-9 we ended the day 4 for 8 hits. you have to watch the rigger also, we found they were not ripping them off the rigger but hitting them and swimming with the boat or under it. the rod would rise up in the holder some when one hit the jplug and take the tennsion off the set. good luck !!!!

[Rich D]

You should have headed offshore from the plant to the 300' area. That area was full of fish on Friday, bait and temp was there. I will be heading that way if the lake is calm next week. Good Luck.

Rich