Back out on the river today, a pretty nice day, nearly dead calm and sort of overcast so it wasn’t too cold. We had a dusting of snow on Mt. Hood over the weekend so you know that winter is right around the corner and we have got to get every day of fishing that is left.
Got out before sunrise and had a couple bumps before hooking into a big male chinook right as the sun came up. It was a great battle, but too dark for video. It was a native fish so I released it. As it gets later in the season, I might have to keep a couple wild salmon for the freezer. A couple minutes later, I got another chinook, this time a hatchery female, so I kept this one for the table.
Looks like another calm day tomorrow, maybe with a bit of rain, but we will be hitting it dark and early.
The Steelhead Fishing on the Columbia River-Fall 2014 video is online, but I haven’t officially announced it yet because the video captions are not finished, but you can check it out anyway. I’ll finish the captions in a day or two.