A Snohomish River Tip...for what it's worth.
Fish the faster and shallower water between the big holes...the big holes that are crammed with coho swimming in circles and rolling everywhere, but not biting, that are also full of dudes...not so much.
They're fat and comfortable swimming around in there, and unless you are into flossing or snagging you aren't likely to hook up much under the conditions we had this weekend.
When a pod of them gets tired of that and moves into the shallows above or below those holes they are out of their comfort zone, and they get snappy...but they won't be rolling much, so you won't see them.
Not until you hook them, at least.
On Saturday between 522 and Crab Bar we talked to a dozen boats, one had two fish that they hooked on eggs early, and the rest were zeros across the board.
In that same one mile stretch...we hooked 17 fish, and only one came from water deeper than four feet. If you saw the three dudes in the drift boat fishing the "wrong water" but whooping it up and yarding them in...that was us
We threw jigs, hootchies, plugs, Dick Nites, and spinners at them...the only thing we hooked fish on was hootchie spinners...maybe a couple of sniffs on twitching jigs, but hard to say for sure, definitely no bites on the rest. By the end of the day it was all we had rigged up on all of our rods.
Fish on...
Todd
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