Shad Weekend

Despite the horrible shad counts and weekend weather report, we went down to Stevenson and Bonneville Dam anyway. We took off after work and sure enough as we got down to the Camas area it starts raining. It was dark and driving up to the windy Hwy 14 was a little hairy. But we made it. Got to our cabin and saw that Matt and Maria were already there.

Woke up the next morning to find more rain and wind. Nevertheless we braved it and went to the dam. We got to the spot and saw that there were people fishing. We did find that there were some fish around. Saw a huge sturgeon rolling around no doubt looking for breakfast burrito shad. We fished for about 8 hours on Sat and ended up keeping about 2 dozen. We lost more than what we kept.


Sunday was great weather wise. The sun was shining and little wind. Fishing however was not great. We fished till noon and only kept 7 fish and probably lost another 7. They just weren't there in force yet. The counts will probably now jump to the solid numbers that we typically in June.