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Fishing Reports
Upper Rogue River
November 17, 2002
Posted by NSelbicky
Email: nselbick@mind.net
Current Report
Flyfished the upper Rogue
near Medford both Friday and
Saturday afternoons. Have
been gone for a week on a
hunting adventure out of
state so it was interesting
to note the changes that had
taken place. The rains of the
week before have brought a
slug of Coho up along with
some fresh adult steelhead.
Some of the larger steelhead
are pretty sluggish in the
cold Rogue water, but the
Coho are on fire. I was lucky
to hook up with two of them
Friday afternoon. I hooked a
good one of over 10 pounds.
Won't ever know because he
put up some kind of fight. I
was never able to get the
bugger on the reel. First he
ran way upstream taking the
length of the flyline plus
some and then he turned and
ran straight back at me.
Finally stripping and
retrieving line I was able to
tighten up only to send the
fish on a frightening beeline
down stream. There he
stopped, trashed the surface,
and started a new charge back
upstream. A lot more
happened, but the details are
all now a mental mesh of
trying to keep a tight line
on the fish and retrieve all
that annoying slack.
Eventually the hook pulled
free. Quite a nice welcome
back to the river. The other
silver was a smaller fish yet
she departed after a couple
of spectacular leaps. The
steelhead hooked and landed
were good fish of over 8
pounds but neither put up a
inspired fight. In fact I had
to literally "lift" one up
off the bottom before any
action began. I'll tell you
for the first 10 seconds I
thought I had a snagged piece
of log. The last steelhead
hooked and landed Saturday
late afternoon was a nice
fresh, wild fish of 26"
length that showed a lot more
animation and spunk. All the
fish were hooked on single
Carpetbagger nymph variations.
Neil
Adventure Center
www.raftingtours.com/RT
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