Sully, were you running an Alumacraft? If so, I think I saw you at the landing waiting to load on Sat.
We fished the river Fri. and Sat. and Saturday was much better for us as the number of fish in the boat doubled. 3/8 oz jigs were the ticket for us tipped with a rainbow, either vertical or dragging downstream. Most of our fish came on knuckle ball jigs in 14-18 fow. Talked to some guys that were using just plastics and they seemed to be doing real good as well.
Both days we tried several spots from Birchdale to the ice, and found incredible numbers of 16-20″ fish. We kept moving trying to find some big girls but only managed a 25 1/2″ and a 28″. If we counted correctly, we boated 102 eyes for the 2 days. We probably could have doubled that number if we would have stayed on those smaller fish, but were determined to find the elusive 10#+ fish that did just that to us again….
You’re right about the sturgeon….they were going crazy west of Frontier on Sat. Watched one guy catch a 56″ sumo!
All in all a great trip, even with the 1 1/2 hr wait at the landing each morning. Good time to BS and meet new people.