My first trip of the year to mason county to do a little coho chasing.

Got to the river at 9am and there were 7 cars parked, kind of a lot for a thursday but not that bad. Hiked up to my favorite spot which is completely different than last year. I am sure that someone (maybe wdfw) came in and planted a ton of logs! But never the less it had 30 or 40 nice silvers just hangin out so I quickly nailed 2 hens in about an hour. Just free drifting a very small weight with 3 foot leader and a tiny corkie. I landed the first one easy it was smaller about 5lbs, the next 2 ran straight into the logs and broke off, the 4th I was lucky to get in at maybe 7lbs. I planned on being here all day and I'm done before 11 oclock? never seen this before.

I hung around for a couple hours and watched others pull em out right and left. Everyone was being pretty humane letting go foul hooked fish. One guy got a monster maybe 15 - 17 lbs! In the years past I've usually fished alone up this great little river but by the time I walked back down I passed about 15 people and counted 21 cars in the lot, guess the secrets out. But thats ok, there are plenty of silvers to go around.

On a side note I worked the Olympus rally last Saturday, thanks to all who volunteered, it was a great time!

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