Ray wrote:
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> I am thinking about trying to fish the Green are there many places to fish?
> Friends have told me to go early in the AM because of tubers in the
> afternoon. I was looking tat the Regs and they only listed regs up to the
> Tacoma Headwork's Dam, is that the Howard Hanson Dam listed in my WA
> Gazetteer? Isn't there any fishing above the reservoir into the Cascades? I
> would like to get away from the ditch part of the river where does that end
> and a real river start?
As Preston said the watershed above the dam is closed to sport and
commercial fishing, but a friend of mine has a research permit for
scientific needs. :-)
As to fishing from below the dam there is good fishing water, yes, a
more or less natural stream above Auburn/Hwy 18. The flume below this is
due to ancient levees and the lack of the White River entering the Green
at Auburn. Prior to about 1915 it flowed out the Green, and since flows
out the Stuck River.
Probably the nicest locations are from the State Park Bridge downstream
through Metzler-O'Grady Park. And don't just fish the upper section of
M-O'G, go downstream, the bottom side of the bend is even nicer. It is
also quite nice above the State Park through the canyon on up to
Palmer-Kanasket SP. I have only fished to K-P, and not above that. But
really the only accesses through the canyon are from the top and bottom
if you don't have a boat. And the canyon is whitewater, so be prepared,
and not naively enter this reach without knowing how to handle
significant rapids.
Rob
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Rob Blomquist
Kirkland, WA
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