Bogey question

[O clarkii lewisi]

I'd like to take a trip to the Bogey to fish for non salmonoids. I'm thinking the river might be currently loaded with Chinook and Coho. If it is, will their presence impact the fishing for rainbows and cutts? I know little about this river and want to explore via bank wading. Any advice is much appreciated. PM me if you prefer. Thank you.

 

[Pink Nighty]

I'd like to take a trip to the Bogey to fish for non salmonoids. I'm thinking the river might be currently loaded with Chinook and Coho. If it is, will their presence impact the fishing for rainbows and cutts? I know little about this river and want to explore via bank wading. Any advice is much appreciated. PM me if you prefer. Thank you.

Its not the salmon that will impact the trout fishing, but the salmon fisherman certainly will. My limited experience on that creek at that time of year is a pretty packed house.

 

[Salmo_g]

I'd like to take a trip to the Bogey to fish for non salmonoids. I'm thinking the river might be currently loaded with Chinook and Coho. If it is, will their presence impact the fishing for rainbows and cutts? I know little about this river and want to explore via bank wading. Any advice is much appreciated. PM me if you prefer. Thank you.

First off, rainbows and cutthroat are salmonids, so at first I thought you were wanting to fish for large scale suckers or sculpins. I've fished the Bogie in September a couple of times over the years and found it to be a pretty good cutthroat stream.

 

[Mossback]

Bring your streamers...

 

[O clarkii lewisi]

Yeah, my mistake on the family name, thanks for the reminder. Several of my river trips were cancelled this year due to wild fires and I really need to fish so at this point a sculpin or sucker would be just fine!

 

[Stonedfish]

With this rain and early high tides this week, it should fish well.
It might be a bit bony after it drops, but if you have a craft to float it that would open up a lot of opportunities.
As mentioned, it can provide excellent searun cutt fishing.
SF

 

[ThomasM]

All the Quilleute rivers including the Bogachiel are a trickle right now - well below the historical mean. I doubt this rain will bring it up much. Sol Duc was shin deep behind my house.

Coho are trapped in the Quilleute (now closed) below Leyendecker until we get a lot more rain.

Bogey access is easy upstream in the park which will be very low water. I wouldn't expect much much salmon action up there yet and zero salmon fishermen. Take my input with a grain of salt though as I rarely go south of Thriftway these days.

For the same purpose, I'd be looking at the upper Sol Duc above the hatchery. Also low but more scenic IMO, steeper pool-drop structure.

At least in the lower-end of the rivers, I've found a skittered foam-bodied Stimulator or similar to be fun and productive for searun cuts, think grassy cutbacks.