Riggins Report

[phutch30]

Fishing on the Little Salmon is good. 2 buddies and I were over there from Friday- Mon. Between the 3 of us we hooked up with 75-80 fish easy. Landing them wasnt so good. I landed 13 + 3 jacks out of 25 or so hookups , another buddy landed 2 and my other landed 2. It was kind of funny, at one point my buddy J was at 0 for 20 hookups before he put a fish on the bank. The river is getting really low. We started the trip in the lower/mid river and it was slow. The best fishing is in the stretch from rapid river downstream 2 miles. We mostly drifted yarn, although we did bobber fish with roe one hole and did pretty good. Based on the way the fish were moving through the river I would say it will be good for at least another 2 weeks. The fish are getting pretty dark now, but the bucks still have nice bright orange meat the hens were starting to get pale. We only caught 3 hatchery re-cycles between us, and with the hatchery count up close to 4000, there must be good numbers of new fish still moving through. This was my 4th trip over this year and will be my last. Had good succesful trips everytime. Fun!fun! fun!

May the salmon gods keep the runs healthy and strong.
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