Jim Martin's Guide Service || Testimonial

Jason and Jessie Reitz, Los Angeles, CA

I can not thank you enough for your guided salmon fishing trip today. It was amazing! I was so impressed that I had to write you a thank you letter. My four year-old daughter had the time of her life on the river today with you. You really made her comfortable so she could have a ball on her first ever fishing trip. You are wonderful with children, especially the safety part. Your professionalism and experience made the trip absolutely everything we wanted and more!! Like how about a MONSTER 25 pound King Salmon I yanked out of the McKenzie!!! It was like magic how you knew where they were!! I kid you not!!

It was all completely amazing from the jigs, to your fast water rowing (up river I might add), to your expert fishing guidance. I could not have asked for a better trip, a better guide, or a better bag of fish to take home!! That King Salmon was so big, it was all the talk at the Fish Market about how THEY don’t even get them that big!!! Thanks for making a dad and his baby girls wildest fishing dreams come true!! And if anyone wants the best guide and the biggest fish out there, Call Jim!!!

Winter Fishing

It has been quite some time sense I have had time to up date my fishing report.. So here we go...

It was a great fall Chinook Salmon run on the Oregon coastal rivers, many people reported multiple fish days on the Siuslaw, Umpqua, Coos, Alsea and the Coquille Rivers. Plug cut herring, trolling, and of course bobber and eggs up in the tide water were successful. I have been getting adult Chinook Salmon on the Alsea and Siuslaw Rivers late in the season, in fact I got a nice bright Chinook last Saturday on the Alsea River. Lots of silvers and Choho on the coastal rivers.

Last January we got a nice bright silver on Lake creek a feeder of the Siuslaw system. I know of a good batch of Steel Head being caught on the Umpqua as early as the 1st week of Oct.

Now that I have put my Chinook rods away its time to start picking on the Siuslaw, Alsea and Umpqua Rivers. After our next good rain these rivers should fill up with the steelhead. It has been my experience that the first big run of fish shoot strait up stream and seem to slow down close to their release points. I will fish with plugs and floats and as the water gets a little off color use a diver and bait with a good sand shrimp always seems to find the mouth of a nice steelhead.

Good Luck. Make room for everybody... And its ONLY A FISH

Sand Shrimp can be found at Mazama's and the Chevron on Green Acres Road

Respectfully,

Harmless

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Winter Fishing

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