Siltcoos Fishing Is Good

Hello Readers,
Fishing is picking up on Siltcoos Lake. In two trips last week, we hooked several fish, landing 9 and keeping 7. Both trips resulted in boat limits early! Good dates are still available for November, which generally brings the best fishing.

See You On The Water,
Action Jackson

Come and Get Em!

Good numbers of chinook are in the river. Fishing has been very good this fall. Bobber fishing, trolling and even casting spinners will produce fish from the mouth to Swisshome. Tidewater fishing will hold up until we get good rains, then either move upriver or take advantage of some of the wild coho fisheries available on the Central Coast.

See You On The Water,
Action Jackson

Prediction: 22,000 fall chinook!

ODFW's prediction for this fall's run size on the Siuslaw is 22,000 fish! Chinook have been starting to show in good numbers. This weekend the fishing fell off some with poor tides, but fishing will get better and better. So get out as soon and as often as you can.

Steelhead and Stripers

Greetings Readers!
I have not posted in quite some time, and I apologize. I will do my best to give area updates and post regularly for fall chinook and coho season on the Siuslaw and coastal lakes. We managed a late-season trip for steelhead and stipers. What a combination. We hooked 2 steelhead, landing 1 and went 1 for 1 on stipers, landing a 27-inch fish.

The striper fell to a 4 1/2 Yozuri Crystal Minnow, blue back. This Crystal Minnow was a very slow sinking version. Now is the time to go and try for these fish on the Umpqua/Smith River system. They should be aggressively chasing the schools of out-migrating salmonid juveniles. Here's a couple of photos from our last trip.

See You On The Water
Action Jackson