Retiring In 4 Years To Kamiah (Orofino, Salmon: how much, house, live)

[ron crain]

What are the winters like in Kamiah ?
Are there any job opportunties for a retired parole agent from Ca.
How is the fishing and hunting

[mark6052]

winter in kamiah should be like N CA, shasta area, maybe alittle more gray, weather sites are good for predictions, pay atention to the records. recent study claims there will be more rain than average.work as retired PA ? cant say, as far as fishing and hunting goes check F&G. there was 8% sucess on elk, 16% on deer. average.

[CDCR]

I will be retireing to Kamiah in 3yrs from the Central Valley area. I also work CDCR.

[ron crain]

We just purchased 5 acres a mile north of town about a hundred yards from the river. Plan to build a house reaise chickens and go fishin. How bout you ?

Originally Posted by CDCR

I will be retireing to Kamiah in 3yrs from the Central Valley area. I also work CDCR.

[thunderbuggy]

You won't have time to work if you are moving to the clearwater river drainage. There are too many fish and deer and elk and bears and other tasty critters to catch and eat that will take up all of your work time. Fishing is great although there are a few tricks you need to know in order to catch the really big ones. I lived in that area for 25 years and the fishing has gotten worse. The secret to catching big trout up there now is get off the bank and drift down river in a tube or raft and fish toward the bank. People will laugh when they hear this, but trust me. After spending twenty years watching the fishing start to dwindle, I was desperate and this was what worked. Now, you can still catch a 16 0r 18 in trout from the bank, but if you want a 3 or 4 lb. fish try it.

[ron crain]

What do you use for bait up there ?

[millagerobert]

Light winters, Kamiah is only 1200 feet. All the snow you want in the surrounding mountains. Fishing and Hunting is great. Whitetail numbers are high, Elk is a little tougher, lots of bears, good upland bird hunting. Bait depends on target species of fish. Good old night crawlers are hard to beat for bass and trout. Some of the Cutthroat waters like the Lochsa are catch and release with no bait regs. The main rivers are good for smallmouth bass from Kooskia to Orofino, trout from Kooskia upstream (middlefork, Selway, Lochsa). Steelhead and Salmon fishing can be good at times, bobber and jig tipped with shrimp or bouncing corky and yarn from the bank, plugs or bouncing sandshrimp or eggs from a drift boat.

Robert Millage
Idaho Land and Home - Kamiah Idaho

[ron crain]

CDCR
When are you leaving this state for Kamiah ?

[ron crain]

How much more time do you have in CDCR ?