Alarm goes off at 5 am, my girlfriend and I carpool into town together, meet clients at 6:30, chase steelhead till around 1:30 pm, load up the raft and head to self wash car wash to pressure wash boat, pick up girlfriend at 4:30 make the 45 minute drive home, eat dinner, return calls and messages till 8pm then hit the hay to do it all over again the next. This has been a routine every day since father's day, thats 58 straight days of chasing fish.
Steelhead fishing has been good this summer, warm mornings and steelhead that will bite make it hard to want to take the day off, before you know it February will be here with rainy cold days that will have us wishing for the days of steelhead fishing in shorts and t-shirts.
It's been a great summer with plenty of excitement, at the top of the list is steelhead! We've seen some truly great fishing with some 15 hookup days. We've had many first time anglers catch their first steelhead and some caught more than one. My Girlfriend Ginny and I headed to Neah Bay to do some fishing ourselves, we caught king salmon out at Swift Sure bank and seabass and ling cod inshore in the kelp beds, only to go home and be back to guiding steelhead trips the next day.
Other exciting news, you've heard me mention Dave Calhoun from NW Rods in previous posts. Dave was recently given the co host spot on the outdoor tv show Outdoor GPS, CONGRATS DAVE! We fished with Dave a week later and did a live broadcast from the river for the show which was VERY COOL! Thanks again Dave.
There's still PLENTY of summer run steelhead around, but most local anglers are getting geared up for the upcoming fall salmon return. The ocean has been fishing good for salmon for over a month now, legendary salmon hot spot Bouy 10 is producing fish and the first fall salmon were caught on my home stream the Kalama River this last week, in no time the Pacific Northwest is about to go CRAZY with salmon!
If you like to fish I hope you've been able to take advantage of some of the great fishing taking place locally, if you're looking to get in on some steelhead fishing before summers end we have some open days and if you want to fish fall salmon with us you need to book NOW as those dates fill fast. As always if you just have a question as to what's biting where or what to use we're always willing to help, if we can't help you we'll put you in touch with someone who can!
