Jeff found this tom this morning…both Jeff and the Tom are soaked!!  Could be more rain starting Thursday, the coming weekend looks good but you never know about weather forcasts.

April 1st means we can fish the Klickitat.  But only below the fisher hill bridge and the water is way too high to fish with a fly, or anything else for that matter.  But it’s now open 4 days a week, Sun Mon Wed & Sat. and there are steelhead down there. Watch the flows and when it drops below 2500 cfs there will be a spot or two to swing a fly.

Pic is of the Swale Creek/Klickitat confluence on 3/30/12…big water in a big way.

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Hearing reports of fish in the lower Columbia. Season below the fisherhill bridge will open April 1, four days a week (Sun, Mon. Wed. Sat.)

Turkey season opens April 15th, youth season runs the weekend prior.

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Skagit Compact head: 540, 570, 660 available.

Scandi Compact head:  540 available.

Skagit Switch head:  540 available.

Speydicator:  WF8F, WF9F, these are full lines.

Tactical Stlhd: ST7, ST8, ST9, these are heads w/float tip.

One salt wild buck, landed by my brother few years ago.  Pretty fish pretty pic.

If you klick the pic you’ll see why I consider it a pretty pic…more pixels!!

The river is open for whitefish, fishing for whitefish that is.  Whitefish are salmonids and feed on salmon and steelhead eggs when available…they also feed on fly eggs in the form of maggots.  A little fly tipped with a maggot (fly larvae) can provide alot of fishing fun in the winter around here.  You must use a hook of size 14 or smaller (that means the space between the hook shank and tip (gap) must be 3/16″ or less), very small hook!! When the weather’s good it can be alot of fun and every now and again a steelhead will take, but they must all be released, even if it’s a hatchery fish. Steelheading is closed!

The Klickitat came back into shape way quicker than I anticipated. It’s a bit high but vis is good 3′+. Fished Thanksgiving afternoon and found this wild winter fish at about 3pm, second time through the run.

Flows doubled overnight and the water is brown, vis less than a foot. Could be over for the season but I’m hoping for another day or two of fishable water. Hopefully it’ll clear by early next week. Season ends 11/30/11, next Wednesday is the last opportunity.

River came up a bit, soft rain from time to time, vis is down to about 3′…still good. If the river begins to drop the steelheading should become much more interesting. Check flows and fish the Klickitat if it’s dropping. Only 8 days left.

Fishing pressure is way down. Lot’s of coho in the river, some will take a fly.  Fished this evening and saw 15 or so coho and one steelhead that was cruising through quite quickly.  Water is clear and the wading is easy.