Decided to give it one more try before hanging up the rods until steelhead season.
We were in a heavy prop boat so were somewhat limited to what areas we could fish.
Started at the mouth tossing spoons but had minimal action so we moved upriver. I hadn't fished there in years so it was a bit of exploring. Found a nice back eddy and started casting. I was now float fishing with jigs and first cast into the seam, float goes down. I set the hook and was extremely surprised to see a large sockeye explode from the water with my jig in its yap.
In fact the area we were in was thick with sockeye, so we moved back downriver to try to find some coho.
Eventually we gave up on the slack water and targetted the faster water for chum and the action was crazy. For an hour it was a relatively fresh chum every couple of casts. Two does in particular stood out because they were absolutely chrome, in fact they had almost a bluish tinge to them with no green and minimal hint of purple flames.
This is a picture of the "most coloured" up of the two that my buddy kept for the smoker.
Also interesting was that this fish had loose eggs.