November 11, 12, 13, 14, 15

Looks like I have a good shot at joining you all either the 14 or 15 for Nisq chums.
What type of rod and lure or fly do you use, or suggest?
Holt

I'm packing a 9wt fly rod, and 2 7ft fast action rods (one casting, one spinning). I hear the herring or anchovy under a float rig is the ticket. If the weather breaks and I get up to the canal Mon I'll let you know how it works out.

Let me know what your plans are, and I'm game for either the 14th or 15th. Chums should be showing up in the Nis any day now

Will they bite?  I have never gotten even a hit there.  I'd love to paddle up in there and get some sleigh rides.  Chums fight so good.

Will they bite?  I have never gotten even a hit there.  I'd love to paddle up in there and get some sleigh rides.  Chums fight so good.

My favorite things about chums is it takes a lot for them not to bite. I'm sure you can find some way for them to bite. IMO they are the most willing biters of the salmon family in fresh or salt water.

Z

don't forget, like P2 said, we might want to let this place settle down since they just bulldozed the hell out the place and removed the dikes and such in the name of wet lands restoration....

http://www.fws.gov/nisqually/

still can't believe i only lived 10 minutes from luhr beach launch when i lived in lacey, and never knew it was there.. 

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WR, you just hit upon a topic that I love to preach about. And that is: "exploring your own 'hood."
Even before gas was first heading over $3/gal, I figured out that I could probably search out and find a lot of fishing opportunities close to home.
One December day many years ago when I was heading out to fish the upper Satsop River in hopes of finding a steelhead, I suddenly had the thought that the Satsop really isn't THAT great of a steelhead river, and that I should save some gas and explore some nearby smaller tributaries to Grays Harbor, so I hung a U-turn and hit a local stream where I ended up parking only 15 miles from my house, instead of the 50 miles to the place on the Satsop where I had originally been headed.
I spent the entire day walking the "local stream", bushwhacking around Devil's Club and Salmonberry bushes, around downed Spruces, etc. Fishing every bit of good looking holding water that wasn't too snaggy. Once, I even found myself worrying about getting stalked by a cougar when I had one of those moments when you get chilled and all the hair on your back and neck stands up straight and tingling.  Got "lost" a couple of times but kept searching, and eventually found a really good hole where I hooked up not one, but two nice steelhead just before dark. One was a hatchery fish, and I kept it.  I also C&R'd some Searun Cutts that day. I wanted to shout "Eureka!" as loudly as I could, but I kept pretty quiet. Reason is that there are more than a few local fishers that have known of this spot for as long as it has been fished, and I was the newbie here.
But I found a local fishing hole that I otherwise never would have guessed was there.
Since then I have studied maps and satellite images of all my local waters and have explored wherever I can find access to areas I think look good. On foot. In my old electric powered squanoe, and more recently in my yaks.
I found some sweet fishing at times, and not much at others, but the scenery and environs here are as pretty and fascinating as anywhere.

I kind of fell away from chasing the reports and heading to the well-known popular (crowded) places. If a spot is being hyped in the media, with great fishing reports, I usually don't go there. I hate crowds.

I try to do my Chum fishing in more obscure locations. One or two good days a year takes care of the Chum jones for me, anyway.