FishingThePacNW wrote:Thanks guys and Mike for the info and the directions to the places on the site! Ill check them out!
Aw, man! I didnt' see this blowing up like it did. The wallace river is best fished when it's high! If the sky is blown, fish the wallace, and if the wallace looks blown, fish the hatchery, because fish hate the wallace river. They don't like to be there, it's small, runs clear and is just not big enough to house the number of fish that want to live there. When the water goes up, it's like you just added a 10,000 square foot addition on their home and they show up, and invite all their girls to a block party.
The water is very rarely unfishable, even in the Sky. You just adjust your methods. Some of my best days of fishing have been when I've rented a room in forks for a four day, get there the night before it dumps big. Bogeys blown, everythings blown and it's raining cats and dogs. But I grab my 1o ounce sinker and plunk a baseball of eggs 2 feet from the shore and BAM! Limits all round. The fish move when it's high. If the river is high, but you can still drift an ounce of lead through it, you're going to have tons and tons of happy go lucky fish in there.
The reason that I posted LMGTY is because it's the first thing that I do when I have a question. The USGS site is your best friend, it's going to tell you what to expect when you get there. You'll look at the median and average flows, and what it's doing when you check it. Is it rising? Is it falling? Is it in the black? That gives you an idea of what the flows are going to look like. To be fair, the Wallace doesn't have it's own gauge. Look at Google maps, that will give you an idea of the drainage area for the river. The Wallace drains that little hill behind goldbar and startup, it rises to flood stage and drops back down in the same day. The Sky is bigger and responds a lot slower to the water from the sky. So what that means is that when the SKy is blown, there is a good chance that the Wallace will have dropped down to fishable. When you asked the question, the river was in perfect shape, that's why I said it was. I had just come back from the river after a day of limits all round. I always tell my clients that there are no stupid questions, but there are always answers out there on google 10 seconds away, rather than waiting for replies on the forum. I'm pretty sure I've responded to this question ten or so times somewhere along the line, so a quick search of the forum might save us all some time is all.
idea, if you want to know if a river is fishable or not, go fish it. If you can, then it is, if you can't, then it isnt..
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