I have been reading the hatchery counts the last couple of weeks and saw the large numbers of silvers hitting the cowlitz salmon hatchery. The trouble is I can't get through the kings that are still hanging around. I fished yesterday and only saw a very few bright fish being caught. Please don't get me wrong, it's a blast reeling those big suckers in on 10# line. I fished till my arm throbed but no silvers. The hatchery reported tons of coho, but very few showing up on the beach.
I have been hanging around the barrier dam and just above Blue creek, I have been throwing orange eggs, and corkies. Does anyone have any better luck than me at these places? Or am I just mental....................?

Time for a change of location. Not a different river, just a different spot.

Would you maybe go upstream or downstream? Looking to take the boy out somewhere this weekend. Seriously thinking about trying out somewhere we haven't been yet though.....but still want to hook into a fish or two...he really likes going back home and showing his cousins the "huge" fish WA has.