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.


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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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Minter Creek chum fun

My youngest brother landed the most this day. All the fish were let go because they were to dark but the action was great.




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Nisqually Crome Chums

I went to the Nisqually to see if there was anything going on first cast and wham I hooked a 8lb chum hen. In the next five casts landed two more chum they were as bright as I have ever seen.

I was using orange dot glow corkie and black yarn at the handy cap hole. 1 1/2 oz weight. I going to cook some of the meat for dinner tomorrow to see what chum taste like.

The rest will go in the smoker.
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Location:Nisqually