Applegate question

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

Probably 40 years ago young Galen Geller (Oregon Salmon) and his dad would fish the Lower Rogue River in the Fall with a jet boat.

Galen said that the lower Rogue river was pretty warm back then so the Steelhead would go up into the cooler, smaller Illinois River

to survive.

Galen said they would float and fly fish the little river in a small raft.

Galen said they used a trout size black woolly worm and could sight cast to holding fish.

After they put the big dam in the upper Rogue River it cooled the lower Rogue off in the summer / fall so this nature event doesn't

seem to happen as much anymore.

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[Larry S]

Bill,
I miss Galen and his humor; one of a kind!
We used to look down from the cliffs and see schools
in the Illinois, just before it flows into the Rogue.
Best to all,
Larry S
Sun Diego