2012 SALMON RIVER - SALMON AND STEELHEAD Thread

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        Happy New Year everybody !!!!   What a year it was last year.. Probably the longest and best steelhead season I've ever seen in 33 years. Last spring's fish were extremely plentiful, but a bit on the small side, but just when you thought you had seen it all, some big boys showed up in descent numbers in October to prove to people that Lake Ontario can still produce quality as well as quantity..... .... The Salmon Season was a good one, definitely one of the top 10 coho's runs I've ever seen in mid September and their still kicking around now. The kings were of high quality this year, the runs were average, and most were average size , but the size of some were something else..... I weighed in 3 over 32lbs and one that topped out at 35lbs......  You name it and we had it...Hope everyone enjoyed the first 3 threads and maybe picked up a few tips and timed a few runs or just laughed a little. I Look forward to hearing everybodies fishing reports or stories or just some BS from the Salmon River and surrounding areas this year.
           Please feel free to posts pictures, I think everyone on MFF enjoys looking at pictures of our area. I hope everybody has another great season..   Shane M.

  
 
 I'll start off the Pictures with one from yesterday.

 
 

[adam2000]

happy new year.  where is the ice? 

[H.T.]

happy new year.  where is the ice? 

looking good for this weekend if we dont get too much snow and wind

[kc]

Hey Snagger how deep is it right there when you step off that log? Will be up Thursday or Friday which ever will be best.
 Happy New Years to all.
Kow boy you going to make it up one time before you go under the knife?

[hookembob]

Happy New Year everyone. Hope to spend a lot more time up there this coming year. Bob

[kowboy]

kc im going to try and go up everyday untill i go friday, let me know when ur going to b up

[Simplecarppieguy]

Well the new year started for me with some chromers. I caught 5 and got pictures of 4. I hooked 9 this morning and my buddy Chris landed 5 for 6 in the schoolhouse So out of 15 we got 10 to the bank.

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Hey Snagger how deep is it right there when you step off that log? Will be up Thursday or Friday which ever will be best.
 Happy New Years to all.
Kow boy you going to make it up one time before you go under the knife?

Over my head Kc ..drops pretty quick right there... I fished again tonight about the same numbers as yesterday  landed 2 for 6 in about 2 hours, good size fish again, nice battles and great weather.  got 4 out of tom's run kc, hadn't been there in a while...

   Looks like the little silver guys love the plastic Frank!!!!

[lehigh vally]

I'm siting hear tonight sifting through all the pic's from the week, hears one i took today from Orwell, Murray and i stopped over at his place for a minuet so we checked things out a bit...ill post more later on tonight  

[kc]

lets try for Thursday. Looks like the weather is going to break by then. But I am up for any day but Monday and Tuesday.

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  After a great afternoon with temps near 50 degrees , the winds just shifted to the southwest in the last 20 minutes... It's a deafening sound, gusts are breaking branches, only a matter of time til the flakes start flying.

 Heres the lastest forecast for our area........

Lake Effect Snow Warning
URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
402 PM EST SUN JAN 1 2012

NYZ006>008-020515-
/O.CON.KBUF.LE.W.0001.120102T0300Z-120103T1500Z/
OSWEGO-JEFFERSON-LEWIS-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...OSWEGO...WATERTOWN...LOWVILLE
402 PM EST SUN JAN 1 2012

...LAKE EFFECT SNOW WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 10 PM THIS
EVENING TO 10 AM EST TUESDAY...

* LOCATIONS...THE EASTERN LAKE ONTARIO REGION AND TUG HILL
  PLATEAU.

* TIMING...LATE THIS EVENING THROUGH LATE TUESDAY MORNING.

* ACCUMULATIONS...1 TO 3 INCHES OVERNIGHT...10 TO 20 INCHES
  MONDAY...5 TO 10 INCHES MONDAY NIGHT...AND 1 TO 3 INCHES
  TUESDAY. STORM TOTALS OF 1 TO 2 FEET IN PERSISTENT BANDS WITH
  AROUND 3 FEET ON THE TUG HILL PLATEAU.

* WINDS...WEST 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS OF 45 TO 50 MPH.

* VISIBILITIES...NEAR ZERO IN WHITEOUT CONDITIONS AT TIMES.

* TEMPERATURES...LOWS AROUND 30 OVERNIGHT. HIGHS IN THE LOWER
  30S MONDAY. LOWS 5 BELOW TO 5 ABOVE ZERO MONDAY NIGHT. BETWEEN
  5 BELOW AND 5 ABOVE ZERO TUESDAY.

* IMPACTS...THE COMBINATION OF LOCALLY HEAVY LAKE EFFECT SNOW
  AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS WILL RESULT IN PERIODS OF WHITEOUT
  CONDITIONS WHICH WILL MAKE TRAVEL VERY DIFFICULT OR EVEN
  NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE AT TIMES WITH LOCALIZED BLIZZARD CONDITIONS.
  TRAVEL ALONG INTERSTATE 81 AND ADJACENT ROADWAYS WILL BE
  SEVERELY IMPACTED BY THE INCLEMENT WEATHER CONDITIONS.

[Dark Cloud]

That weather report will thin out the yahoos... 

[esox v]

That weather report will thin out the yahoos... 

8 to 12 inches of snow !

[SNAGGER]

That weather report will thin out the yahoos... 

   I hope the squall stalls right over us all day...... Can you say WHITEOUT!!!!   Can't wait!!!!

[Dark Cloud]

   I hope the squall stalls right over us all day...... Can you say WHITEOUT!!!!   Can't wait!!!!

If you have seen the movie Forrest Gump, the scene where Lt Dan has it out with the storm on the boat. I can picture you standing at "the bend" yelling at the whiteout...