Anybodie getting any (silvers)?

Gee, what else would we be taking about? :p

Actually I stopped by Thomas Eddy tonight about 6:00, nothing going on there. Nothing rolling, nothing hooked up, etc.

I'm thinking about dropping by the fisherman's park above town tomorrow, then maybe head up to the lower Sky later if it's slow. Supposedly there are fish moving through, so maybe it'll just take finding some narrower water to get into them. If nothing else, it's a day on the river instead of working.

Was out by the town of Snohomish, in the boat, saw a dolphin (couldn't believe my eyes), a beaver and a couple of humpies. There was a few jumping here and there, probably humpies. Waiting for the silvers...... Take care all

Doubletake

So I head down to the park above Snohomish at about 8:00, most likely about 2 weeks early (still, better than being at work or mowing the lawn) and two guys in a boat come by and ask the guy above me if he's had any luck. Nada, and the guy in the boat lifts up two fish just high enough to see their heads. Pretty damn small if you ask me, unless they're big trout. He takes his cocky grin and his two humpies back to the launch, apparently oblivious to his situation.

Then, another guy comes down at about noon and prepares to fish precisely between me and the other guy, when there's 1/2 mile of empty shoreline above him and below me. Apparently he's thinking this must be where all the fish are, since there's two guys fishing it already.

The whole time he's talking like he really knows what's going on. "This time last year, I had...",etc., etc. He says sorry he's late (funny guy), but mentions it doesn't matter when you fish as long as you end up with a barbecue in the evening. I mention that humpies are all that's showing much, and that he would have to let them go, in case he didn't know. He says he's not interested in killing, just hooking. Hmmmmm, so much for the barbecue. He also mentions that, well, he DOES happen to know that today is the last day for cohos. Huh? I tell him it's actually the second day, as for all harvestable salmon (didn't get into the Wallace kings thing for his benefit) in the Snohomish system. "Really?", he says? "Oh, yeah, I was thinking about a couple of places on the Columbia that are closing." Huh, again?

He then proceeds to place his first cast right over my line. He reels in fast, unhooks me and plops his large shiny metal object back out there and proceeds with his 6' horizontal yank, retrieve, yank, retrieve, etc.

I pack it up and get ready to head to some uncrowded shoreline while he's dealing with a big honkin' 20lb. test birdsnest on his spinning reel. I mention that, in case he doesn't know, that treble hook at the bottom of that chrome plated buzz bomb is not legal tackle.

"You know," he says, "you're right. You're absolutely right.", and he reels up and apparently begins to dig for something in his tackle box that doesn't look like such a blatant disregard for the law.

Criminy. Not a surprise, really, any more than having people cut me off in traffic, hog the fast lane at 54mph, etc. Stills galls the crap outta me, though. Worst thing was this is what he's teaching his kid, who frankly looked kind of embarassed to be with his clueless dad.

Fished opening day, wasnt expecting there to be much of anything in there besides bronze kings and even yr scabs. Did see 7-8 nice chrome silvers jump in the 4-5 hours i was there. I hope they never open an even yr scab fishery, because of the clueless crackers like SkyWalk mentioned Odd yrs are worse enough down there

A couple weeks or a good rain and the Sno should be rolling...Til' then lotsa casting to scrap up a hooknose

Too Funny
(not really)
Ya I have seen all kinds out there, I think there is a permanent Humpie crowd that thinks every year is okay to fish for em'
Last year was a zoo, I found a nice little spot to relax and fish, by the end of the season, no way too busy.
Of course with the road closed along the river, they were really packed in tight.
Ah well, seems when I got there at O' Dark thirty(last year) , I got a few hours in before the Humpie experts rolled in. At least it is close for me. Have fun out there, I will see ya all out there. & Good Luck!
Woodsy Wayne