Wow, great fishing on the Snohomish continues!

I met up with Gringo Pescador at 6am at the Cady boat launch in Snohomish. Today HT was 6am (Everett) and LT was 1:30pm. Weather conditions were calm winds, overcast, 60s, but really, not cold, in a word, a perfect day to go fishing.

We motored down to "the spot" about a mile downstream and anchored up. Fish jumping soon became "Fish On!". We worked a variety of gear, for the most part today's hot tickets were for Gringo, his homemade jigs, and for me a dick nite 50/50 with 3 ft 8 lb leader to a small lead core weight for casting. Funny, as I think about it, each of us had little/no luck with the other's go to lure, very curious.

What really gave us the hot boat however, was my realization after fishing an hour and changing location once, that the river was devoid of the weekend warriors. And that meant - side-drifting, yes! I ran us up a half mile and dropped my electric bow motor and kept us on a controlled drift, and we were free to cast our way down river. Suddenly we had access to a ton of fish that were seeing no gear except for our own. It made a huge difference as we caught bright fish after bright fish. We continued this way until around noon at which time we decided to troll plugs for an hour in hopes of filling our punch cards with a coho each. Unfortunately, no coho wanted to played, so we went back to drfiting and in a matter of minutes each filled out our punch cards for a day of easy limits. The fish are still nice and bright, but showing a bit of color. I did have to keep one male humped-up fish as he was bleeding pretty bad in my attept at a quick photo. Oh well, "good for the smoker, LOL".

We took lots of cool video and I'll get working on it right away. Meanwhile, get out if you have the chance, and if the river isn't too busy do try some side drifting. I've marked the hotspots for the premium members. Good Luck!

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