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today started with me still trying to get my Bro-in-law, Doug, into his first king salmon; Doug is a Puget Sound guy that has slayed plenty of pinks and silvers up there, both spinning and fly fishing, but never a chinook....all it took to get him into a king was a little help from a friend...
Igor (Les) could not join us to fish over the weekend, something about his wife's birthday
thumb, but he was good for Monday and Tuesday and would have his green and blue herring and red hooks ready to go. So we met up at 7am and trolled upriver straight away to make the most of the last hour or so of incoming tide, and just past the N.Fork, just after sunrise, it is fish-on for Les...soft hook-up but fighting deep and with increasing energy, and it becomes clear it is a Chinook, and Les hands the rod over to Doug. I asked him if he wanted to take the net but he declines and I remind him that he is forcing me to say nice things about him on the forum...he smiles and sits down to watch the show 
opcorn:....it was a fairly standard Chinook fight, several deep runs and some in-and-out play near/under the boat...clear water all around us, only one boat anywhere near us and we are chatting with them the whole time, so no need to rush things...eventually Doug and I got positioned correctly and he steers the nose in my direction, bang in the net, 33" buck that went about 21#.
we troll to Cushman and start back and Doug has a nice take-down that might well have been another king but once he got the rod in hand, it was off...lots of fish on the sonar but not much catching going on around us, so at noon we head for Siltcoos to toss spinners...
sunny smooth lake and nothing much to see up the Maple Creek Arm, slow cruise back to by the inlet, just off Fish Mill Resort, and after 30min of casting and my Pink Bell Spinner (medium) gets slammed and it is go time, this coho wants to play, long run as I slowly adjust the drag, then changes direction and runs again, about to make a circle around the boat when it heads away and just runs out into the lake...I wanted to hand it off to Doug so it could go on his tag but we use opposite handed reels and this fish is too nice to risk losing, so I keep the rod and Doug takes the net, and eventually, after some very nervous jumping and head thrashing near the boat, right in the net. totally feisty 31" hen that went 13#. so my fishing day is over.
as I am relaxing and sipping coffee, Les hooks up on a Silver/Blue Bell Spinner, also medium, and starts fighting a nice sized coho, length probably in the mid-twenties, and it goes acrobatic and with a massive head shake snaps off his 8# leader! Doug and Les both cast on for another full hour but no more hook-ups...
we took the picture with both fish back at the Siltcoos launch and talked to the guy that lives there, the lake has dropped a foot or 2 and he confirmed the dam was opened and a bunch of fish came in a few days ago, fishing was hot for a day and has seriously cooled off since then...what was it Eugene1 said about Siltcoos?
I can't say enough nice things about Les, so I will not try, we will just meet up at the launch tomorrow and head out fishing again to try and continue the chrome-appaloosa. cheers, roger
Igor (Les) could not join us to fish over the weekend, something about his wife's birthday
thumb, but he was good for Monday and Tuesday and would have his green and blue herring and red hooks ready to go. So we met up at 7am and trolled upriver straight away to make the most of the last hour or so of incoming tide, and just past the N.Fork, just after sunrise, it is fish-on for Les...soft hook-up but fighting deep and with increasing energy, and it becomes clear it is a Chinook, and Les hands the rod over to Doug. I asked him if he wanted to take the net but he declines and I remind him that he is forcing me to say nice things about him on the forum...he smiles and sits down to watch the show opcorn:....it was a fairly standard Chinook fight, several deep runs and some in-and-out play near/under the boat...clear water all around us, only one boat anywhere near us and we are chatting with them the whole time, so no need to rush things...eventually Doug and I got positioned correctly and he steers the nose in my direction, bang in the net, 33" buck that went about 21#. we troll to Cushman and start back and Doug has a nice take-down that might well have been another king but once he got the rod in hand, it was off...lots of fish on the sonar but not much catching going on around us, so at noon we head for Siltcoos to toss spinners...
sunny smooth lake and nothing much to see up the Maple Creek Arm, slow cruise back to by the inlet, just off Fish Mill Resort, and after 30min of casting and my Pink Bell Spinner (medium) gets slammed and it is go time, this coho wants to play, long run as I slowly adjust the drag, then changes direction and runs again, about to make a circle around the boat when it heads away and just runs out into the lake...I wanted to hand it off to Doug so it could go on his tag but we use opposite handed reels and this fish is too nice to risk losing, so I keep the rod and Doug takes the net, and eventually, after some very nervous jumping and head thrashing near the boat, right in the net. totally feisty 31" hen that went 13#. so my fishing day is over.
as I am relaxing and sipping coffee, Les hooks up on a Silver/Blue Bell Spinner, also medium, and starts fighting a nice sized coho, length probably in the mid-twenties, and it goes acrobatic and with a massive head shake snaps off his 8# leader! Doug and Les both cast on for another full hour but no more hook-ups...
we took the picture with both fish back at the Siltcoos launch and talked to the guy that lives there, the lake has dropped a foot or 2 and he confirmed the dam was opened and a bunch of fish came in a few days ago, fishing was hot for a day and has seriously cooled off since then...what was it Eugene1 said about Siltcoos?
I can't say enough nice things about Les, so I will not try, we will just meet up at the launch tomorrow and head out fishing again to try and continue the chrome-appaloosa. cheers, roger
Kill a couple for me you guys!
