Just back from fishing this week near Port Orford on the Sixes River. The first major storm of the season provided the long-anticipated high water necessary to scoot a big push of Winter Chinook up the Elk and Sixes Rivers. I missed the first two days of great fishing on the Elk as that river came into fishable shape. When I arrived the Sixes was just changing from brown to green. I stayed on Sixes and enjoyed plenty of hook-ups, though the boat pressure on the river was horrific. The first day we were tagged out by 9:00am, the 2nd by noon, and then low water conditions and heavy traffic combined to make things tougher. We continued to find our fish but had to work harder and scale down our presentations to put fish in the box. Both rivers are back to very low and clear conditions now and need more rain for good fishing. I believe that more fish are still waiting to come in since there has been really only one major high-water event this season. These rivers should see more fish well into January. Folks can then target both salmon and steelhead while drifting The beautiful Elk.