WOW!! Good for you for getting out and doing this. Thanks so much for posting your film. Best thing I've seen on PNWFF in a long time. Just beautiful. Comforting to know things like that still exist.
River Snorkeling with Cutthroat
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Jisabi
Steelhead
Awesome! I think I enjoy snorkeling the rivers almost as much as fishing. Sometimes I like to just ride the current and FLY through the run, other times grab a root or boulder and watch the show like you. The practice has really taught me where fish actually lie and where they don't. And as a bonus you can't get skunked snorkeling. You've just inspired me to get back out there.
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Hard to tell, they didn't look too beat up, if you've seen some of the videos we have shared cutthroat fishing we find big pools of them like this through September in rivers down here! Not sure what they are doing but look good and healthy. The ones that look skinny and spawned out we usually catch during steelhead season in January and Feb while trying to catch steelhead!
Love this! time to get the wet suit on! If you bring a go pro like I did be sure to share I would love to see it!
G_Smolt
Legend
In between assisting ADFG with steelhead index surveys and my own steelhead presence surveys the past 6 springs, I spend a lot of time in late April and May snorkeling in rivers. Some days it's face-freezingly cold, it's occasionally sketchy in terms of obstacles (and bears), but boy is it a hell of a lot of fun.
Certainly a great way to learn more about fish behavior and river hydrodynamics.
Floating down a low-gradient meadow section, after 3 miles of occasionally bumpy and log-jammy transport water.
The payoff
Peace, y'all
Certainly a great way to learn more about fish behavior and river hydrodynamics.
Floating down a low-gradient meadow section, after 3 miles of occasionally bumpy and log-jammy transport water.
The payoff
Peace, y'all
Pink Nighty
Life of the Party
As a kid we tuned the af nooksack every summer. Starting around 10, my brothers and I would just swim it. Faster than being in a tube, for what that's worth
I'm trying to find photos from bigger rivers but the little stuff is cool, too--a real workout. It's like doing a bunch of burpees while trying to control your breathing, not to mention the whole not bashing your head into a rock thing--while you're trying to find fish, too! And managing the constant, constant foggy mask from working hard in the cold water.
But seriously, be careful out there, y'all. Always have a buddy.
Wind River, Skamania County incident
Media contact: CommunicationsOLYMPIA – Yesterday Sept. 13, the Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) experienced a grave loss of a beloved coworker who passed away as the result of an accident while participating in a snorkeling survey for summer steelhead on the Wind River in Skamania County...
wdfw.wa.gov
I wish we could post video. I have some cool clips, but here are screen grabs. This gorge is an exciting reach to swim and a magical place. There were some kings and trout (er, various classes of O. mykiss) in this gorge this time. And, those kings were adipose-clipped hatchery strays, far from any hatchery.
Awesome stuff!
Now its time to up your game and do some offshore snorkeling with the blues and makos
Now its time to up your game and do some offshore snorkeling with the blues and makos
There were so many jigs and spinners in this river... I could have loaded up!I do this in late fall right after the typical closure on my local rivers and free float down to collect bobbers and jigs. I have a bucket slowly accumulating Beau Macs
