Spring Salmon
This is another year of a tough spring salmon season. I am not sure what to even tell you except it is very slow. I am sure it will get better each day but right now it is about none existent. The F&G closed salmon fishing from I-5 Bridge on the Columbia River to Bonneville Dam again this year so that is forcing all the fishing in a smaller area. That is not helping at all. I am not sure why they do that except for our special commissioner that wants to close the Bonneville pool for his interest to the estuary. It is terrible when money is more important then the resource. But, I am not going to get on my soapbox today. I will save that for another letter. However, the salmon fishing should get better this week. We will cross our fingers and toes. If you are out there trying to get one of these springers, there are two main ways of fishing for them. One way is on the out going tide you want to anchor up and use sardine wrapped QuikFish. I like anything with green in them. You want to find a spot in the river that the fish will be holding up in. I like fishing the edges of a back eddy. The salmon have to travel a long way so they are going to take the path of least resistant and in this high water that is even more prevalent. Another way is to troll herring or prawns. It seems that most of the fish caught using this technique have a flasher above the bait. Sometimes I use them and sometimes not. But, I guess every little bit helps some. Good luck out there.