Went out today, started at the hatchery, lots of people, accidently snagged a few chums, so went for a walk downstream. Walked for a while, met a few other anglers who had seen a few coho, kept walking, got to a large log jam, started seeing VERY recent signs of bears, it rained, and the tracks were very distinct, quite fresh, found a bunch of chewed up salmon carcasses (also fresh), didn't really feel like going much further, 18 year old kid wandering through the forest, smelling of roe and fish, coulda been fun
Didn't really even wet a line in my travels, came back up stream back towards the hatchery but on the other side of the river, fished for a while on my own landed one chum fair hooked. Continued back towards the hatchery, pretty much everyonew was on the hatchery side of the run, so pretty much had the bank all to myself, dad crossed the river to join me and the two of us fished on one side, and had about 12 guys fihsing opposite us. Landed MANY chums, no coho for us, saw one coho landed, and heard of a another one landed, but that's about it from what I saw and heard.
Fished roe for a while, then got tired of re-baiting, so put on some wool, trimmed to look like roe, and caught a lot more fish (even thought they were chums), and didn't snag as many.
Still a lot of guys dragging fish all over the rocks and booting them into the river again after leaving them out for a while. Just a note guys, you odn't have to bring the fish entirely out of the water to unhook it, just get it into shallow water, and "rush the fish," unhook it and you can often mogve the fish back into the mainstream without even removing it from the water, or by touching anything more than it's tail. Give it a try.
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Topic: very dissapointed at the chehalis nov.12 (Read 4950 times)