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Dosewallups
Easy access to wilderness
fishing.
Timothy Kusherets
Located in Jefferson County Washington United States.
Dosewallups is a great place for hooking into either pinks
or chum. The pinks run every other year while the chum consistently
come back each and every year.
The directions to Dosewallups campground are relatively simple. Highway
101 North or South, on the west side of the Pacific Peninsula in the
State of Washington, will take you directly to the campsite. The park
there affords you choices of staying the night, or staying for just
the day. If you stay overnight you will have to pay a nominal fee to
use the facilities, but getting the edge on the water makes it worth
the time. The river runs right through the park, and the walk is relatively
short. If you fish the river you should bear in mind that you may not
fish below the highway bridge. Consult your regulation handbook for
any changes that might take place.
One of the reasons that I like fishing there is the run the fish make.
Because it is a glacially fed system, the water is consistently colored
gray, which puts almost all of the fish at ease and you can see them
right there at the surface, more often than not. The further into the
season you go the colder it gets, and as the freezing level falls the
level of visibility of the river increases, and as a consequence, the
fish become more skittish because they can see you better. Because the
access to the river is both wide and flat, you will need to walk to
the water line with trepidation, any quick approaches scare the fish
either to deeper water or out of the area entirely.
A good rule of thumb for fishing in this area is to consider the size
of the fish. The smaller it is the smaller the lure you are going to
want to use, conversely, the larger the fish, the larger the offering.
The faster movement of the river affords you the ability to make a wider
range of choices of lures to use that includes drift-fishing gear. The
more colored the water is the shorter your leader can be, but make yourself
aware of the legal limits of how short your leader can be, your regulation
handbook will keep you apprised of the ever changing rules to the systems
that you want to fish. The best times to fish this area are in August
and then November.
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