Springers are starting to show

I hit Sellwood on Saturday for a shakedown cruise with a few other distinguished NWKA peeps and lucked into a nice cookie-cutter Springer while trolling upstream on a popular shelf in the area with a salty herring behind a flasher. Overall it was a pretty slow morning but this fish meant that the kayakers beat out the power boaters! Gotta love that! About another week or so and we should start to see some steady action. Cheers!

Thanks for the report! Keep them comming.

That fish looks a little freezer burned.   

Sweet! I can't wait to get myself one of those tasty cookies.

  Massive coolness!  Congrats on the early success....I tried 3 times for a February springer, gotta be careful not to burn out early now. Keep em coming,sir.

Swwweeeeet!

What do you do with the fatty skin? Hope we have samples at your clinic this month

"There's no such thing as springer entitlement."

Sounds like Minnowmagnet will be patrolling the waters soon!

Nice! now lets get some good weather! lol

Nice fish and thanks for the report!

how long are u able to troll those waters before getting tired out? current not bad?

The current on the Willamette is generally much lighter than what you encounter on the main stem of the Columbia River. 

Here's a chart from the USGS for the recent current speed of the Willamette River in downtown Portland.  Note that the units are ft/s and 1 ft/s is roughly 0.6 knots or 0.68 mph.

http://or.water.usgs.gov/will_morrison/monitors/will_morrison_vel_7.html


In other words, unless the river level is way up, you can go all day with out much effort.

That fish looks a little freezer burned.   

What do you do with the fatty skin? Hope we have samples at your clinic this month

"There's no such thing as springer entitlement."

No way that could be distributed. That stuff disappears very quickly once it's off the grill.

Crispy, grilled springer skin is worth fighting over. 

Never show your friends how good they are!