{"id":31,"date":"2017-11-01T22:22:30","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T22:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brookingsfishing.com\/reports\/?p=31"},"modified":"2021-07-26T10:30:20","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T10:30:20","slug":"salmon-season-begins-on-chetco-smith-rivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brookingsfishing.com\/reports\/salmon-season-begins-on-chetco-smith-rivers\/","title":{"rendered":"Salmon season begins on Chetco, Smith rivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_32\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/brookingsfishing.com\/reports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_0036-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-32\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brookingsfishing.com\/reports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_0036-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brookingsfishing.com\/reports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_0036-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/brookingsfishing.com\/reports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_0036-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/brookingsfishing.com\/reports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_0036-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-32\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jackie of Bend hold a nice Chetco River king salmon caught Oct. 23 with Capt. Andy Martin of Brookings Fishing Charters.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The fall rains have increased flows on the Chetco and Smith rivers, kicking off the fall salmon season on both rivers. During the fall and winter months, Brookings Fishing Charters captains Andy Martin and Travis Sallander switch over to the drift boats to guide on both rivers. Andy and Travis are both licensed to guide in Oregon and California, and have special-use permits from the Forest Service to guide on the upper section of the Chetco. Only a very limited number of guides have these permits.<br \/>\nThe Chetco rose to levels where drift boats could get down on Oct. 20. The first day of drift boat fishing produced limits for the handful of guides on the river.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_33\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/brookingsfishing.com\/reports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_6864-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-33\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brookingsfishing.com\/reports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_6864-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brookingsfishing.com\/reports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_6864-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/brookingsfishing.com\/reports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_6864-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/brookingsfishing.com\/reports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_6864-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Customers of Capt. Andy Martin holds limits of king salmon from the Chetco River.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Smith River was fishable the following day, and Andy and Travis both caught limits there. By Oct. 23, both guides were back on the Chetco, which was in prime shape and fishing well.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_34\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/brookingsfishing.com\/reports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_0014-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-34\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brookingsfishing.com\/reports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_0014-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brookingsfishing.com\/reports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_0014-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/brookingsfishing.com\/reports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_0014-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/brookingsfishing.com\/reports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_0014-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-34\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Capt. Travis Sallander floats the Smith River just south of Brookings with customers fishing for salmon.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Salmon season will continue through mid-December on the Chetco and Smith rivers. Steelhead season follows, with fish in the river from December through March.<br \/>\nTo book a trip, cal Brookings Fishing Charters at (541) 813-1082 or visit our river guide service page at www.wildriversfishing.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fall rains have increased flows on the Chetco and Smith rivers, kicking off the fall salmon season on both rivers. During the fall and winter months, Brookings Fishing Charters captains Andy Martin and Travis Sallander switch over to the drift boats to guide on both rivers. Andy and Travis are both licensed to guide &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brookingsfishing.com\/reports\/salmon-season-begins-on-chetco-smith-rivers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Salmon season begins on Chetco, Smith rivers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[11,12,14,8,10,7,13,9],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reports","tag-brookings-fishing-guides","tag-brookings-river-fishing","tag-chetco-river-fishing","tag-chetco-river-fishing-guides","tag-chetco-river-fishing-report","tag-chetco-river-salmon-fishing","tag-salmon-guides-smith-river","tag-smith-river-fishing-guides"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Salmon season begins on Chetco, Smith rivers - Brookings Fishing Reports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/brookingsfishing.com\/reports\/salmon-season-begins-on-chetco-smith-rivers\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Salmon season begins on Chetco, Smith rivers - Brookings Fishing Reports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The fall rains have increased flows on the Chetco and Smith rivers, kicking off the fall salmon season on both rivers. 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