Hoodsport is indeed in full swing. I started fishing at 8am, surprised by the sparse mid-week crowds. Plenty of fish to go around. Fishing from a boat, I started off slow compared to those around me but eventually found the right retrieve speed (moderately fast, start reeling as soon as the corky hits the water) and was into plenty of fish. I ended up catching about 10 and losing again as many, plus many hits that didn't get hooked. The fish were all over a small pink corky with green yarn, 3 foot leader and small sliding egg weight. I even caught two that were bright - chrome enough to keep, which is unusual. The fresher fish wound take running jobs and you could see them swarming. Just cast into those swarms and it was fish on! I will make an observation and comment. I snagged only one fish all day. The rest were hooked firmly inside the mouth. And these fish were hitting my bait for sure. There was no doubt on the strikes. So it was kind of sad that the five other boats around me were all throwing buzz bombs and spinners with treble hooks. I don't think I saw one fair hooked fish in those boats. Sure, they had fish on all the time and I had lots of misses, but when I had a fish on it was a lot more fun than dragging a fish in tail first. It's just plain lazy to be tossing that hardware after these fish!

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