well i got out this morning at 7 and fished the sky with a buddy. we ran up to the wallace first but there was nothing there but a couple snaggers and some old rotton kings. there are no silvers in the wallace yet. none at the hatchery either. so we went down and fished between sultan and lewis street in a few holes. there are a lot of silvers in there now but there not hungry. tried everything from plugs and spinners to drifting eggs and plunking spin n glo's. only one bite. all the silvers are chrome bright. no steelhead either. the rivers in great shape. good luck to anyone else who makes it out there.

Wait for River to open first for silvers, if you get caught targeting them, it ain't gonna be good.

Try ****-nites. brass/red tipped on sunny days, or chrome/red tipped on overcast days. If your fishing holes where you know there are silvers stacked, cast to far side and upstream of hole, reel fast, then slow down to a creeping reel, then gradually speed up as it comes in towards you. expect the hit just as you start to speed up again.

From a boat, sit right over hole and let your ****-nites flutter straight down on top of fish. It pisses silvers off and they will hit it.

If they aren't hitting it, then thats just the way it goes. One day silvers will be locked, other days they hammer everything.

I fished the snohomish one time a while back and threw a super-vibrax to the same school of Silvers all day long, my arms about fell off. Finally one got pissed at it and hit it just before sunset, I had been there fishing since 8 in the morn atleast. I lost the fish. Silvers are fun sometimes, but frustrating most of the time. IN RIVERS ANYWAYS. Out on the sound, no problemo.

I fished lewis st. several years ago when they had a huge run of silvers coming up and hit them all day long. So its just a hit and miss thing with those suckers. I find on days when they are jumping for joy and chasing eachother around they get lock-jaw. And days when they stay down they hit everything.

anyways-goodluck!
catch some steelies for now

Howdy,
Many moons ago, in the infancy of my river Salmon fishing experience I was fishing cheapskate bar on the Snohomish R. with a couple bud's. We watched hundreds of nice Silvers hop, boil and roll as we casted hardware all morning without any success. It's no wonder fisherman used to think it was a waste of time trying for salmon in freshwater! (can you believe when I started out, Chum were considered impossible to take on legal sport-tackle) Anyway, this one guy I'm fishing with screams fish on, we all excitedly ran over to watch him play his fish. When he landed it, I was shocked to see one of those cheesey indiana/colorado type spinner set-ups that have a rubber worm on a double hook setup. (can't remember what their called, but K-Mart has sold em since I was a kid) A pure fluke is what I dismissed it as, actually I was thinking every dum-ass has his day and went back to casting "real" salmon lures. You've guessed it, five minutes later he had another fish on.

In order to look cool while using this method I just thread half a night crawler on my Aglia. Have you ever seen a Silver whose been in a tannic acid stained stream for a while? Many times they will have some kind of worms/leaches attached to them. My theory is the fish will kill my worm so it can't do the same. Kind of like Salmon/Steelhead striking eggs to insure genetic advantage long after they have quit actively feeding.