My home river is the N. Santiam and I've fished that for all my life. These last two years the runs have been really low and tend to favor the S.Santiam. I've fish a lot of different rivers around here, Both the North and South, Both Nestucca's, The Salmon river the Sieltz and the Alsea. I want to venture out a little though and try some new water. I watched your Mckenzie River video and it looks like you guys are having a nice run. I also did some wild land firefighter and was stationed in a small town of tiller. 50 ft. from the umpqua. I heard great things about that river and would love to fish it. Do you have any advice about your local rivers? What rivers are good for floating a Drift Boat? Is there any good bank access? How are your runs?

Any help is welcomed!

The Umpqua is a very good river for steelhead and salmon! The north umpqua is a beautiful river and has some of the largest winter steelhead in the state. Here is a guided video we made on the north umpqua (http://www.steelheadstalkers.com/guide- ... curtis.htm). The north has some tricky water and you would want to go with someone who has drifted it before trying it. There is the south umpqua as well that has a good run of native and hatchery winter steelhead unfortunately this year most of the rivers in oregon had sub par runs. I believe the south umpqua has some easier drifts.

Further south in the southern oregon there is the rogue and applegate rivers that both have good runs of winter steelhead and the middle rogue is a bit easier to drift. If you have fished the alsea then there is the siusilaw and lake creek for winter steelhead and they are small rivers with good numbers of winter steelhead. The siusilaw is good for fall Chinook too! The upper siusilaw is popular for drift boats in the winter with its small size and good numbers of fish lots of people get into steelhead. People like to troll the siusilaw bay in the fall for chinook.

Hope this helps a little bit!

hollywood wrote:The Umpqua is a very good river for steelhead and salmon! The north umpqua is a beautiful river and has some of the largest winter steelhead in the state. Here is a guided video we made on the north umpqua (http://www.steelheadstalkers.com/guide- ... curtis.htm). The north has some tricky water and you would want to go with someone who has drifted it before trying it. There is the south umpqua as well that has a good run of native and hatchery winter steelhead unfortunately this year most of the rivers in oregon had sub par runs. I believe the south umpqua has some easier drifts.

Further south in the southern oregon there is the rogue and applegate rivers that both have good runs of winter steelhead and the middle rogue is a bit easier to drift. If you have fished the alsea then there is the siusilaw and lake creek for winter steelhead and they are small rivers with good numbers of winter steelhead. The siusilaw is good for fall Chinook too! The upper siusilaw is popular for drift boats in the winter with its small size and good numbers of fish lots of people get into steelhead. People like to troll the siusilaw bay in the fall for chinook.

Hope this helps a little bit!

Curtis is a great person as well as a guide,he will fish where the fish are .Many guides only know one river Curtis knows LOTS, maybe he will even take you to the ??????????? river