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Oachs Bros. Guide Ser.
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, April 02, 2001 - 11:31 pm: | |
Subject: Rogue River Steelhead & Salmon fishing
( 4-2-01 ) The Rogue remains low & it looks like it will stay that way until May when they will release water from Lost Cr. Lake for the Spring Salmon run. They say that Lost Cr. Lake will be 25 ft. from full when they will start to release water. Even with the low water some winter Steelhead have been caught in the Grants Pass area. The count of fish over Gold Ray Dam is at about 3000 Steelhead. Not a high count for the Rogue. Not as good as we would like but fair for conditions. We should see another couple of weeks of Steelhead fishing in the upper river before the Steelhead fishing is over. A few spring Salmon have been caught in the lower Rogue near Gold Beach. Low clear water never has been good for a Salmon bite. We'll just see how it goes when we get into May & they release some water. The fish & game boys think we will see about a 30,000 fish return on the springers. Thats about what we had last year. Good fishing, Ron |
Ron Oachs
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, March 03, 2001 - 2:59 pm: | |
Subject: Steelhead Fishing, Rogue River
( 3-2-01 ) Lets call it like it is, the big D, Drought. We are at less than 50% of our normal rain fall. The Rogue river is still dirt low & gin clear. However some Steelhead are showing up below Grants Pass. If you run into a pocket of them you can do ok. Curt was down below Galice the other day & landed three on drifted roe. Not red hot but worth a try if you can put up with the low water. It makes it hard to drift fish with the low water flows. You might want to try drifting roe or nightcrawler with a slip bobber. Good Luck, Ron |
Ron Oachs
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, February 09, 2001 - 12:03 pm: | |
Subject: Steelhead Fishing, Rogue River, Oregon
( 2-9-01 ) Still we have no change in the below normal rain fall for the area. The river is still as low as it has been most of the winter. Fishing reports are picking up alittle. The best I've heard of have come for below Rainy Falls, 30 miles below Grants Pass. They are seeing fish below the falls & catching a few of them. You also hear of someone get one here or there further up the river. However it is along ways from good or normal fishing. I went out on Tuesday. The wind blew, it was cold, sleet coming down. We never had a bite, but we did see some winter fish jumping around. They just did not want to bite what we were throwing at them, which was just about everything I had in the old tackle box. Thats the lastest for the old Rogue River. Think rain & lots of it. Good luck, Ron |
Ron Oachs
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, January 28, 2001 - 4:26 pm: | |
Subject: Winter Steelhead
( 1-28-01 ) Well here we sit with another week gone by with no appreciable rain. The Rogue is at bear bones flows & gin clear. Winter Steelhead fishing SLOW! I fished below Agness ( 30 miles up from the ocean ) in the lower river two days last week. The first day we never had a bite. The second after noon we did hit five fish. However they were small fish for this time of the year. They ran for 14 to 26 inches. We were fishing small baits of roe with a Birdy drifter above the roe, behind jet planers. My customer was from the Portland area. He was asking if I had tried the new Bubblegum colored 4" plastic worms for the Steelhead. I said I had heard of the method being used in Canada, but I had not tried it. He said it is becoming popular in the northern Oregon & Washington area. Well at this point I'm so frustrated I would do or try almost anything. You know? He had some with him. So I rigged one up & put it out behind a jet diver. Well when we started hitting fish the first four hit the roe & Birdy drifter. So when I pulled back out to try the spot again I said to Mike, well you see how good that pink worn is. So about five minutes goes by, ya you guessed it, down went the rod with the worm on it. The biggest Steelhead of the afternoon. Well just great, now I need to try them again to see if it was a fluke or maybe them Canadan fisherman are on to something. Something to think about anyway. Good luck out there. Ron |
Ron Oachs
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, January 26, 2001 - 6:35 pm: | |
Subject: Phil Meager e-mail, bad address
Tried to get back to you but the mail would not go through, said bad address. try www.rogueriverguides.com for your info |
Ron Oachs
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, January 25, 2001 - 8:16 pm: | |
Subject: Steelhead fishing on the Rogue River
( 1-20-01 ) Rain, Rain, Rain, it is just not happening. We have just been through the best of our winter rain season & it just will not rain for us. The weather people tell us we are over 6 inches below normal rain fall now. The river is as low as I have ever seen it for this time of year & clear! You can see a dime on the bottom in fifteen feet of water. So how does this all relate to the winter Steelhead fishing. It stinks! The fish have been slow to move into the river & once in the river they move slow up river. I think we are running a month behind in the Steelhead season right now. All this makes for tough fishing. However it could all turn around in a couple of days if we get some rain to bring the rivers up. Until that happens all we can do is keep fishing & complaining about the lack of rain. Anyway do not give up, it has to rain one of these day, I HOPE. Good luck, Ron |
Ron Oachs
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, January 25, 2001 - 8:10 pm: | |
( 1-20-01 ) Rain, Rain, Rain, it is just not happening. We have just been through the best of our winter rain season & it just will not rain for us. The weather people tell us we are over 6 inches below normal rain fall now. The river is as low as I have ever seen it for this time of year & clear! You can see a dime on the bottom in fifteen feet of water. So how does this all relate to the winter Steelhead fishing. It stinks! The fish have been slow to move into the river & once in the river they move slow up river. I think we are running a month behind in the Steelhead season right now. All this makes for tough fishing. However it could all turn around in a couple of days if we get some rain to bring the rivers up. Until that happens all we can do is keep fishing & complaining about the lack of rain. Anyway do not give up, it has to rain one of these day, I HOPE. Good luck, Ron |
phil meager
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, January 04, 2001 - 10:33 am: | |
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Oachs Bros. Guide Service
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Subject: Steelhead Fishing, Rogue River, OR
( 12-19-00 ) I went down on the lower Rogue River below Agness on the 11th & 12th to fish for winter Steelhead. The river was low, fall level, & you could see a dime on the bottom in 8 feet of water. We caught a few small Steelhead 14 to 17 inches ( half pounders ). Saw no winter Steelhead at all. I spoke to a source at Gold Beach today that said they are catching a few winter Steelhead now just up from the mouth of the river, above tide water. We did get a little rain that brought the river up a coulpe of feet. Yesterday I went down on the Rogue below Grants Pass. We caught three Steelhead 3 to 6 pounds. However all of them were summer run Steelhead. The run of winter fish will increase every week now until it hits full stride by the middle of January. I also think we will see a good run this winter. Good luck. Ron. |
Ron Oachs
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, December 05, 2000 - 3:22 pm: | |
Subject: Steelhead fishing on the Rogue River
( 12-5-00 ) Well I'll tell ya, it's starting to look like a drouth year around southern Oregon. We are just not getting our normal rains. All the local rivers are running at minimally flows. This makes for very poor fishing on the south coast streams like the Chetco, Elk & Sixes rivers. I did fish the Rogue river below Grants Pass on 11-30-00. We landed 7 Steelhead drifting roe. The largest was about 5 pounds. We went back on 12-3-00 & caught 4 Steelhead drifting roe. The one thing we need is rain & lots of it. Our winter Steelhead will be starting up the rivers any day now with a big push of them in January. So lets hpoe the rains come soon & with them I think the fishing will be good. Do a little rain dance for us if you know how. Good luck guys. Ron |
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, November 29, 2000 - 5:07 pm: | |
Subject: Salmon & Steelhead
(11-20-00 ) The Steelhead fishing in the middle & upper Rogue is slowing down, but some fish are still being caught. Drifted roe would be the best bet to catch these late summer Steelhead. The Chetco river at Brookings should be in full swing for the fall Salmon, but due to the lack of rain there is not even enough water in the river to float down it. When I checked the other day the CFS flow was 188. For good fishing you need 3000. It looks like a little rain tommorrow & again on Friday the day after Turkey day. However the systems really do not look strong enough to due the Chetco any good. So just what due we have to look forward to. Well if it rains look to the Chetco. If no rain stay home & wait for the winter Steelhead to get going in late Dec. on the Rogue & other Oregon rivers. Good luck to ya. Ron |
