Super Dipping Sauce

I took three of my family members to Brewster, WA for our first sockeye. Our guide Brad with Bobber Down Guide got all of us our fish. We also hooked a couple chinook but lost them our fault. One of his secrets is Sockeye flavor Super Dipping Sauce. The fish weren't big but they we're there and in force and they made a delicious meal.




This is his first salmon.




The biggest of the day




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Bling Bang Summer Steelhead

The summer run is heating up and this is the time for metal. I decided that I would try to add a new weapon to my fishing spinners I have never landed a large fish using spinners before Saturday last week. I got to the Cowlitz river it was low and clear. No one had caught a fish all day. So I started to rummage through my tackle box and found a Pen-Tac spinner that a friend of mine gave me to try out two years ago. I grab my trout pole and start fishing. Ten minutes later bam I hook into this fourteen pounder.








I was more surprised than the fish. That Monday I tried the Cowlitz river again the conditions were exactly the same so out came the spinner and I got this ten pounder.




Just to make sure it wasn't a fluke I tried the same setup on the Skykomish and landed this 18lb chinook after a 30 minute battle.




(No salmon where killed in the making of this blog)
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Cowlitz Spring chinook

This year has been good the spring chinook fishing has been great.


Caught three weeks ago on jig


These are corkie eaters





This is my dads first springer ever.








This is another jig victim.


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Purple and black

Finally got on the river for the first time in a while. We went to the Wynoochee and drifted it using bobber and jig. The flow of the River was 958 cfs. After trying jigs in orange, pink, and black and pink worms. I tried a color combination that I use very little, black and purple and found that was the ticket. That is when the silver flew. I went 2/2 and my brother in law went 1/1 his was 15# and mine were 13# and 10#.










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My First Cutthroat and a steelhead

Using one of my custom drifting fly. I caught my first cutthroat.


Another drift fly caught this steelhead.


These flies are for sale on www.fishtaletackle.com
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My Christmas present winter steelhead

Went to the Humptulips and fought two landed one lost the other in a snag. I was drifting glow corky and red spawn sac's. Fished from 4-7:30am. It blasted sleet for the first hour and a half then started to snow my fingers turned blue but you don't feel that when a fish is on.






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The last of the salmon

Tried the skookumchuck to see if there was any remaining coho. There was but they are all dark cherry red. They glow corkies and blue fox spinners. Went 10/16 keeping 2 I thought might be smoke able.


My brothers hit the Nisqually they got their limit of chum but even these are looking a little dark.


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