Well, got to the river for first light, was all rigged up, then the sun came up and I realized that it was going to be tough sledding. The water had maybe a foot vis, but on the plus side, it was up what looked like almost 2 feet.
Figured, whatever. I was here and I was going to see what I could get. Second cast with my special roe, bam fish on!! Spring.
After letting that one swim away, got into another and saw that there was a lot of spring rising in the area, so not wanting to play with them much, I moved down river a bit to look for a better water. Found a stretch that looked a bit better, and tied on a Blade. Before long, float goes down and I am into something that felt a bit frisky, but only for a mount as it spit the hook. Not to many casts after that, the float goes down again, good hookset this time and a fish come rolling to the surface, looking to be in decent shape, after a spirited battle, this comes to hand, and after a quick photo op, the 10lb wild is back where it belongs!!
After that had no more success at that hole so I moved a ways down river and was able to have some success there with 5 more Springs, all in decent shape. But no more Coho. So I moved further down river, to the lower end, water down there had pretty much no Vis, so I looked for some of them ponds. The ponds are pretty much gone, but they are still holding fish. I could have sworn that I saw a couple Ho's Surface, but the only thing I could hook into was 5 Chum. All of them were in pretty good shape and put up a pretty good fight.
That was my day. From first light to 5 pm. But at least I was able to get into a nice Coho when it didn't look to promising to begin with.
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