Neah report

[Uncle Jimmy]

Hey thought I’d throw out a quick report. The fishing at Neah, around tatoosh and inside has been slow but doable, as of Fri there still weren’t many fish, but I was finding 6 or seven a day by fishing the tide change around the red can. It’s a short bite, an hour tops, low seems better than high. Out side, by swift shore, the fishing has been wide open all day triple hookups some days, and hardly a fish on others. A Canadian license would probably fix this but I already have enough damn licenses. There is tons and tons of bait inside sail rock and east, and the black bass have been out of control. Pitch a popper in the kelp and just let it hang there. I didn’t fish over the weekend, but some friends told me they saw a bunch more silvers close in, maybe the rain will do the trick.The interesting thing is that because the word on the street is slow fishing, its like a ghost town out here. The other day we managed a dozen silvers and fifty or so rock fish and never got within a quarter mile of another boat.

There are some huge silvers in the rivers right now, but this is a saltwater page.
I will be Tuna fishing till fri. so won’t know more on salmon till then
Jim

[Richard]

Uncle Jimmy, on the salmon, gear or fly? I understand it's been pretty scratchy fishing at times, even for the gear guys . . .

[Uncle Jimmy]

Fly gear, its funny most days we are doing better than the gear guys. Its taking alot of heads up fishing to put together a good day, alot of gear guys (and fly guys) have a habit of switching to "auto pilot". That is doing it the way it worked before regardless of changing conditions. If you dont have an eagle eye on the tide AND current charts and some knowledge of what to do with them your probably screwed until the fishing gets alot better. I have been hitting areas where fish typicaly congregate just before flat spots on the current table. Start bucktailing and watching the fishfinder. If you hook up or mark good fish take a way point and fish right there, keep going back to your way point to stay in fish. The fish have been staying up as long as the current is mellow, an hour if your lucky.
Good luck
Jim