07-05-2015, 08:24 PM
I took my family to the gorge for the weekend and was able to manage a few hours of koke fishing , I know I have made a lot of comments about fishing only biting early morning so I will have to eat a little crow (and some salmon)[
]. I woke up early 5 a.m. and headed up to an area just above anvil and below the farm house. I found water temps were74 deg. f. at 5 a.m. capping off in the evening at 82 yes 82 it was hot !Also water level is up about 15 feet over last year (so much for all that rain not helping the water storage) I like to set up to fish away from the other boats at 45' depth. 1.6 mph , the hot set up was RMT pearl squid with a 5.5" green custom dodger. 1 only fished for about 2 hrs to get two limits the largest fish was a 4.5 lb 23" giant (my personal best salmon) with another slightly smaller at 4 lbs. the other fish were 3.5 and 3 lbs rounding 2 limits with small fish. Great trip all in all but once again an extremely short bite window
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]. I woke up early 5 a.m. and headed up to an area just above anvil and below the farm house. I found water temps were74 deg. f. at 5 a.m. capping off in the evening at 82 yes 82 it was hot !Also water level is up about 15 feet over last year (so much for all that rain not helping the water storage) I like to set up to fish away from the other boats at 45' depth. 1.6 mph , the hot set up was RMT pearl squid with a 5.5" green custom dodger. 1 only fished for about 2 hrs to get two limits the largest fish was a 4.5 lb 23" giant (my personal best salmon) with another slightly smaller at 4 lbs. the other fish were 3.5 and 3 lbs rounding 2 limits with small fish. Great trip all in all but once again an extremely short bite window[signature]