Cold cold morning. Started off with a wedding ring. In 10 mins, I had 5 strikes. From the strikes, I'm betting they were perch. I landed the 3rd or 4th strike and confirm, it is perch. Good size too. Almost 11".

For the next hour or so, it was dead for me. I was marking a few fish, but not many. I switch out to an Apex spoon type lure for a bit. I saw 2 strikes on that lure, but they small strikes. So betting they were perch also.

I then switch to a needlefish. Saw 1 small quick strike in about 30 mins. Then all of a sudden, I get a MONSTER strike. FISH ON!!!!! I get it close to the boat and see it's a really nice size trout. I get it in the net. 17.5-18" cutt-throat weighing exactly 2lbs.

I continue on and get another solid strike. 15-16" cutt. Keep going and I get another nice strike, but it came off halfway to the boat.

I'm making my loop and I get a solid strike again. This fish feels odd. From the strike, I was expecting a 16-17" size fish. But as I'm reeling it in, it feels heavy, but it's not really fighting. It's like it's being dragged slowly near the surface of the water . Felt a couple head shakes, so I knew it was a fish. As it got closer, I see it's a MONSTER fish. It's either a big ass trout, or a salmon. When it saw the boat, the fish started going bonkers. Starts diving and ripping drag. Swimming around the boat. Under the boat. I dont know how it stayed hooked, but it did. It barely fit in my small rubber net, lol.

I'm not salmon expect, but I know Sammamish has the Kings going through it, so I'm thinking it might be one of those. It did have a black mouth. The skin had these parasite looking things on it. It was also missing it's little top rear fin. But I told basicly all the Kings that go through Sammamish are "boot" colored. This was a pretty silver fish.

24.5" @ 4lb 8oz.


Anyways, I fished for about 30 more mins and called it a day. Water was getting choppy and hard to control the boat.

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