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10/29/2012
56° - 60°
Casting
Chum Salmon
Other
Purple
Raining
Other
Morning
51° - 55°
10/29/2012
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So my annual fishing trip to the Queets was cancelled because our guide was sick so since I had the day off had lots of options of where to fish. I was going to try out the Tilton river as it has been getting a good number of coho from the Cowlitz hatchery but after hearing the rain pound all night was worried it would be blown.

I have been fighting a cold lately so took some nyquil last night and woke up at sort of late around 6:30am so figured my best option was to give Chico creek a shot after stopping by there this weekend with the wife ( had to take her away for the weekend because of the empty nest syndrome) but did talk her into checking out Chico and Hoodsport and both were loaded with chum.

I favor the people at Chico over Hoodsport any day so arrived around 8:30 as the tide was running out and moved to the end of the creek out more in the open water as everyone was concentrating on the schools that were shooting up the creek but have found over the years that the ones out in the open water tend to bite more and you will hook more in the mouth that way.

I had tied on a purple sparkle yarn ball with chartruese thread and a black soft bead loaded it up with anise/shrimp scent and a small amount of lead and started casting out into the water. It didn't take long before I hooked up and 'walked the dog' back to the beach. It was a nice buck but I was after hens so let him go back to sea and it took me a couple hours to finally get a nice hen but had one buck literally swallow my hook so kept that one as it was bleeding too bad.

May not be too many options after the next couple of days of rain but still want to get down to the Satsop and Chehalis for some late coho! Did get a nice couple of skeins of eggs for that!

see you on the water!


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BentRod
10/29/2012 8:23:00 PM
Right on Barry! Way to walk the dog...now you need to Wok the dog! lol.
salmonbarry
10/29/2012 9:22:00 PM
haha BR! no, it ain't going in no Wok~ to the smoker she goes someday! I stopped down by the green on my way home and it was running pretty fast by hwy 18- went up the hatchery and it was stuffed with silvers- they got over 300 summer steelhead as well. The guys there said this rain pushed them in. They have over 15,000 in the pond
FishWhisperer
10/29/2012 9:55:00 PM
We need to plan the il fornaio salmon mission one of these days!
schu7498
10/30/2012 6:20:00 PM
Going to the queets that day would've been a waste anyways. before fishing the hump we went and checked the queets. it was very high and muddy with trees and debris floating down the river. we talked to a group of drift boat guys that had their only luck at the mouth of the salmon river.
salmonbarry
10/31/2012 6:16:00 PM
thanks schu7498! I was wondering what I had missed out on and thanks for the tip on Chico- I think that might be the only option Saturday as I have the day to fish so trying to figure out where to go
salmonbarry
10/31/2012 6:19:00 PM
fishwhisperer~ is this you Chris from the cafe?
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Website: Darrell & Dads Family Guide Service

Phone: (509) 687-0709