Klamath multi day drift report

Went up to the Klamath with a group of guys the week before RBC to do a float-n-fish trip. We were taken upstream 12 miles to a lodge on the jet tour boat. We stayed at the lodge for one night before drifting down to the blue creek area. Camped there for a couple days and then drifted the rest in one day to the takeout. We fished around the lodge the first evening and next morning, but didn't manage much. The water around the lodge is not the best holding water compared to some of the holes below. Shimmy got one adult salmon and so did Sean. So off to blue creek the next day. This is a cold water creek that's known to hold fish up for a while on their way upstream. We tented it on the beach for two days there. There's some great steelie holding water there. The steelies were coming through big time. Kept seeing em roll right in front of you all day kept me casting from dawn til dusk. Mostly adults and brand new chromers. So with so many steelies showing I'm ignoring the salmon. The day we were there for the whole day I manged 15 5-12lb steelies and two jack kings. The next half day I got 7 more. All brand new crazy phsyco running valting chromers!!! I've caught hundreds of these fish upstream in the past and I've never had the oportunity to get them low in the river like this before. They are like a different breed down low. Muuuch stronger! Most were wild, only a few hatchery fish. I kept one and a couple jacks for the Q. We ate the jacks on the river and  brought the steelie home. Cooked half of it up at RBC. It was delish!!! Some of the orangest flesh I've seen in a steelie. Looked just like a fresh salmon. Next day we drifted down to the takeout with intentions of fishing our way down. Sounds like a good plan eh? Well the wind was cranking upstream all the way, and you had to paddle our way down... As soon as you stopped paddling you were blown back upsteam. I stopped in a couple riffles and picked up a couple more halfpounders and dropped a couple mid sized fish. Shimmy got an old boot salmon, but not much more was happening. After a while I just put the rods away and beared down . Would have been nice to drift it, but oh well. The lodge is run by these two sisters that stay there for a few months during the fishing season, then pack it up and leave for the winter. Pretty cool operation. Real rustic, quiet and relaxing setting. Just how I like it. Simple........... Here's sum pics of the trip.

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Looks like you are living the dream. 

   WOW what a great adventure... That lodge looks great, real secluded, and from the sound of the fishing... And you're right, that STEELIE at the BARN was OUTSTANDING!!!! Thanks for sharing your fish and your fish tales!

Damn. That sounds like an awesome trip. It must be great to get on a spot with that many wild steelies! Can't wait till I can give that a run in a few years!

Love to return to the Klamath someday.  Thanks for the great report and pictures Glyn.

Sweet! Excellent report haven't been up to Blue Creek in  years but it's a legendary spot. Talking to some DFG biologists and guides they say it's going to be a great steelhead year on the K. I'm going to be up on the Klamath and Rogue the entire last week of the month to swing some flies, this is my favorite time for steelhead. Hopefully some of the bigger fish will bypass the Trinity and come on up to Irongate to party. Thanks for the report!

Nice.

Got my first on Friday and then fished it saturday for one steelhead.

Dude I read "Sisters own it" and I'm looking for pics of the "Sisters"??? j/k NOT...

Nice fish Nice Trip...but you've had a grip of that lately... Glad you could make it to RBCII for the Burning Brain...  Alan killed with that stunt..

Want to fish those waters sometime...how long is it fishable from a yak???

I envy you.

 

Awesome trip Glyn!  Those chromers get the blood pumping, multi-day on the river must have been sweet.  Thanks for the report and pics!

When I retire i'm gonna be doing exactly what he's doing. Multi-Day trips with Fish to fill three freezers. Thanks for sharing.