This report is for a fishing trip that occurred last Saturday, 8/20.

Between 8am - 10am is when we caught all of our fish. My first cast hooked a pink buck that I lost because of bad netting technique. 15 minutes later, I hooked another buck and managed to land this one. With the following cast I hooked into a silver, which gave me a very impressive fight full of jumps and runs up and down the river. I was able to land it as well. Closer to 10am, I hooked and landed another pink buck. The friend I was with lost 1 and landed a monster buck, about 8 lbs.

After 10am, you could still see them rolling and jumping, but they definitely stopped biting. I returned on Sunday for about an hour during the same time and they did not bite at all. These fish are kind of tough to figure out.

The pinks are in great eating condition here. I was able to make sashimi out of them. The fish I catch out of the Puyallup and Snohomish are pretty much only good for smoking.

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