I got a call from Mike at Northwest Guide Service asking if we would like to fish the mid to upper Coquille River in very low, clear conditions. You can guess what we said! Ding, ding, ding, mico jig time. He said guides stopped fishing that area about a week ago and have moved down river to where the fish are biting so we should have the river to ourselves. I said if there are fish up there then we can catch them. He promised they are around so we went for it! Here are some pics of the day of fishing. It was so beautiful outside all day too.

Daniels first and second fish ate the Black Hybrid Micro Jig!





My nice native buck!





The biggest fish of the day fell for the Pink Hybrid Micro Jig!



This fish was 35 inches and took the Pink Hybrid Micro Jig above!





What a great day on the water fishing the conditions we love! Big thanks to Mike Fairchild of Northwest Guide Service for letting us fish our style and not make us sidedrift! He knows the river very well and if you are interested in fishing with him the Coquille will be fishing well for the next couple of weeks then he heads over to the North Umpqua in March! We have a very cool video of the day in the process of being made.

Awsome!

i had to put my polaroids on just to look at those fish. they look like the front bumper on my truck. that's the great thing about fishing so close to the salt. CHROMERS!!

Another thing I noticed about that river is how HOT the fish are. You guys will see in the video, we got our butts wooped a few times. We are talking 50+ yard runs!!!

Way to go Chad and Daniel. You guys are jig fishin machines.
Just imagine what you could do sidedrifting some RGB and a puff ball

There was some side drifting with rgb going on, but no fish being caught with it.

That's why the guides were down river 18 miles or so! They stop catching fish when it gets this low. You could see the bottom pretty much everywhere except a few spots and even then it would be hard to side drift. You could anchor up and drift fish it though. My big buck did come on RGB under a float. We got to stock up too on roe with those three nice hens. Oh yeah!

Here is a link to the video we made! This one you guys have to see.

http://www.steelheadstalkers.com/guide- ... quille.htm

ABSOLUTELY EPIC!!! Man if that doesnt get your heart going, I dont know what would!!!!
Very nice. I could jig fish that place for days!!!!!
Nice job!!!