Probably won't get alot of input here, but thought it was worth a shot.
I went out to the Vedder the other day and fished the upper canal and also the upper river. Caught a nice 11 / 12 inch rainbow in the canal as well as several smaller guys trying to bite my muddlers
Couldn't believe the tiny little steelhead smolts would hit a 1 inch rolled muddler when they are only about 4 or 5 inches themselves..... I guess this is how they get so big in the ocean. Went up to the hatchery, saw all the red springs in the creek and in the tanks with a few chrome coho mixed in. Fished the upper river, watched a few bullet coho fly by without a sniff of our flies.
Anyway, I was wondering if anyone else is tired of sockeye mania and is targeting the smaller, uncrowded flows. I wonder what the bycatch of early run coho and springs will be like this year and if we will see some big pushes of fish when the sockeye commercial fishery dies down. This rain (Tues Aug 31st) should bump the rivers up a little bit and hopefully bring in some fresh fish