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One of my cousins has been asking me to take him out and this was the 1st time we were able to coordinate out schedules. Since it was him and his dad, and they wanted to learn how to fish for steelhead from the bank I set them up with a couple of my spare float/jig rigs and we hit the Hwy side of Reiter.
We fished from the top hole down to cable, camped there for the majority of the day since we pretty much had it all to ourselves and the top holes had quite a few hammering them already.
When we got down there, there was a guy in a little 6' rowboat, out in the hole, rowing against the current pulling a plug. Basically blocking the entire hole. After some grumbling we went out down to the tailout, got them set up and casting.
About 15 minutes later the rowboat guy beached the boat and walked up to one of the cabins so we waited another 15 minutes or so and then moved up into the hole.
We bounced around all over that stretch, switched colors, depths etc. and not one takedown by us or anyone else that we saw throughout the day.
We headed back up to the top hole around 1, fished it for about an hour, saw 1 fish caught and 1 lost on the hatchery side but still no luck for us.
Two things that really bugged me:
1st was all of the garbage on the banks! I have been hitting the highway side for many years and never seen so much crap all over the place. Line, beer bottles, coffee cups, lure packaging, shirts, hats, energy drinks. Sad, very very sad. I usually have a garbage bag with me, but since it was supposed to be so hot, I didn't wear my vest which is where I keep em. Thinking I might take my daughter for a hike next weekend just to pick up garbage if I can get out. From what I understand, this is the exact problem that has caused BNSF to shutdown access to the fingers down lower in the river so PLEASE PEOPLE, PACK IT OUT before we lose access here also.
2nd was all of the crap in the river! Between the 3 of us, we pulled 5 leaders (hook and bead) and a good 100' of line out of the cable hole and lost 6-8 jigs and a couple of spoons to line still in the hole (line, not snags). It looked to me like someone lost a bunch of braid because I caught it a couple times with my spoon and it snapped my 17# leader.
Gotta add some good to the bad - it was a beautiful day to be in the river and we were visited by a wood duck and her brood who decided to hang out with us for awhile.
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