Spring Steelhead on the Nehalem

March 28th was scheduled to be a day of Spring Salmon fishing on the Lower Columbia with Rick and his son Tommy from Kalmath Falls. With the Columbia colored from recent rains we discussed the fact that Steelhead were available on the Main Nehalem from the beaver Slide ( crash boom bang) to the cement plant.

With the weather forecasted to be awesome we decided to go for it. Herb's Biscuits and Gravy, hot coffee and a meeting in the Safeway parking lot then off to the river. Once I could see the river it was a little high but falling fast. The color was a deep greey green. No wind and no fog. The temp was cool not cold.

We were joined by my son Jon who is 14 and a great fishermen at his age. We started out fishing a spot where we have had great success so I floated striaght there. We had Divers and Sand Shrimp out and it did not take long for a nice 13 pound female to come to the net for photo's and release. Tommy landed that once and it was a start to a great day!

Over the coarse of the day we hooked nine wild Steelhead and landed seven. Size was from 7lbs to 14 lbs. We also lost a HOG that jumped several times finally breaking the leader! Fsihing was great the catching awesome.

I great day on the Nehalem and a great day with good people!

Hopefully will edit soon with pics once my daughter downloads from Virizon!

More later!

Val Perry

Perry's Fishing Adventures
www.fishingwithval.com
fishingwithval@msn.com
866-738-6991

Special Note we are doing a Lower Columbia Sturgeon Clinic May 1-2 at Joe's in Beaverton from 6:30 - questions stop!

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