Washingto/Oregon Road trip w/pics!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just returned from a 2 week WONDERFUL vacay with my wife Julie. We flew to Seattle, stayed for 2 days, then drove a rental all the way back to the O.C.
Here are the fishing highlights.
All fish in this post were CPR'd!
Hit up a local river that had tons of baby chinook salmon jumping out of the water. I was SLAYING Them with a lil chrome spoon w/orange. My nephew Chris, using a roostertail couldn't get a nibble. So I traded him poles and we BOTH caught nuthin! Then, I coached him over the next few casts, and pretty soon, he was 5 for 6 in a row!!!! They were fun and hard fighting on 4lb test. (I had my out of state license)
Chris, with his first of many Chinook...STOKED!!! :D
A LARGE eagle, Golden or immature bald, was in the trees overhead. Looked the size of a friggin elephant when it took off!!!
We then left Wa. and drove thru Or. (I had my out of state license here too) Was a BEAUTIFUL coast drive along 101. I highly recommend it.
There were creeks and large rivers all the way, and I do believe I stopped at every one! :wink: Much to my wife's annoyment.
One such creek was Trask Creek.
The trask river just below the hatchery...
We drove 5 miles of 101 to get there, and were rewarded with BEAUTIFUL scenery and a few nice fish which were either Steelhead, or Coho(silver) salmon like this one. Help on the ID please?)
We then kept driving South. The next day, I fished a beautiful clear creek called the Elk River. I caught my first Cutthroat ever!!!!! I was completely stoked!
The Elk River
My first wild cutthroat- caught on my fav lure, the Panther Martin......
If you ever wondered WHY they call em cutthroats...
Then we kept on driving stopping at a few towns along the way to spend the night. My bride REALLY outdid herself on the accomodations. We stayed one night on the beautiful Rogue River-No fish(Though I fished :!: )
Here are a few random shots...
Look VERY Closely-Dana, are you looking VERY closely????? That is me in my Team 57 T-shirt standing on the arch on the left :!: :!:
Our first stopover in Cannon Beach, Or.
Our third stopover in Gold Beach, Or. -Rogue River in the background
A wild ride on the sweet-***** sand dunes on the Oregon Coast near Florence.
I hope this may inspire you as it does me when I read others' posts, and I hope you can be was awed, as I was, by the wonders of these great United Staes of America!
GM
PS
Look for my Northern Ca. followup posts in the Northern California reports section tomorrow.
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