With a little rain on the weekend the river stopped falling for about 24 hrs but has begun to drop again. With it so high we are starting to see more and more fish porpoising, but the action is still tough. Guides are still reporting hooking smolts as well. Saturday was our first day seeing the camp get into double digit hookups of nearly all large salmon. Despite the tough conditions, spirits were high, and this mixed group who departed yesterday are all waiting for 2019!

We welcomed a...

The river is continuing to drop a few inches a day but is still a long ways from being at a prime fishing level. Our guests are seeing more fish with each passing day. Guides are reporting some huge fish porpoising and moving on. It is tough fishing, but it hasn't been with out some awesome success stories. Right now, there isn't a large quantity of fish, but the quality is undeniable!

Pictured here is Chris with his mentor, Jeff, and a beauty 103cm fish estimated at 27-28lbs landed at the top of back river. Jeff remarked how proud he was of Chris for handling the biggest salmon of his life like a real pro. Congrats, Chris!

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With the water level sitting where it's at, you don't have to go far to find a fish! We just watched Ed from the deck Of the lodge, land a 12-13lb salmon right in front of us!

Just to give everyone an idea of the water levels this year compared to previous years...we only thought it was high is 2016 and 2017!

The 2018 season has begun! We have had guests fishing here since June 30th, and our first full group arrived yesterday. The fishing is tough and it is really hard to guage how many are in he river. The water is high. It has been at a sustained high level for longer and higher than any of us here in camp have ever seen. The chart in our next post will give an idea of just how abnormally high it is. We have been taking surface water temps just from our boat's sonar and the average for the...

We ended off our year with a small group of 4 in fishing from Aug 19-26th. And, despite the river rising nearly 3 1/2 feet during that time, guests still hooked up with fresh fish and some large fish as well! Had the rain stayed away we expect they would have had one of the best weeks of our season! Check out this video taken by guest, Rob, during his stay. This beauty large salmon was landed and released in rising water conditions on Aug 24th.

We had more guests depart over the last few days and now we have a little break before our next group arrives. The fishing has been great! Water levels are prime and water temp is at 65F. The fish are not holding really well with such good water conditions for them to continue the journey, but the results have still been good.

Guests over the last week averaged 4 fish each per day, and we were quite impressed with the high percentage of large holding strong at around 30%. Some really nice...

Fishing has continued to get better since our last report and the excitement in camp has been contagious! Bud, a seasoned trout angler but new to salmon has been having an infectious amount of fun. A couple of times now he has had to take a little break to get off the adrenaline rush. He landed his first ever grilse in Pratts during his first session. The hoots and hollers could be heard over the rush of the river, and he couldn't believe how hard they fight!

We also had a young man,...

We say so long to another great group of guests today. They had a slow start, but as predicted, the building tides and dropping river led to much better fishing. All of our guests hooked up, still a few large in the mix, and some nice chunky grilse. Guests and guides reported seeing a lot of fish yesterday moving into Pratts, but the hot bright day made them very difficult to fly. Andre, the highliner of the group with an average of 3/day, remarked yesterday that, "I think that was the most...

Our guests that departed on Monday had a successful trip with everybody getting into some nice grilse and still a few large in the mix. The river was getting in prime shape, but a downpour of rain inland brought it up about a foot over 24 hrs on Monday and Tuesday. The rise in water combined with slack tides led to a slow couple of days, but, when the river stopped rising and turned to fall we started seeing fish and hooking up again. The tides started building again yesterday, so we hope they bring more fish and the river keeps dropping!

We continue to hear that there are still plenty of salmon out on the headlands of the coast. Last year we had some nice late runs of maxi-grilse, and we are starting to think it is going to be that way again this year.