Wow! Lots of bites out there today!


I've never caught a silver in the Snohomish, never caught any sort of salmon on a spinner. Why not make up a lure just to make things even more interesting?! I've always heard river silvers gobble up twitched jigs, and word on the street is they hammer blue foxes. Keeping those presentations in mind, I assembled a twitchin spinner- best of both worlds! basically it has a weight forward design that allows the blade to keep kicking on the fall.

This day would be rated a five if even half of our fish stayed buttoned, but constant action kept us very focused. The very first hookup was on a plug that we had dangled ten feet behind the boat as we rigged bobber setups. Anchor out, but The incoming tide had the current running "way too slow" for the plug to attract a strike. We let it dangle. And a two pound jack lazily slapped at it and got himself hooked. We fought this one to the net, but I bumped it off because I was looking at a boat upriver. We weren't going to keep it anyway; only ten minutes into our trip!!

Allysa and I started running bobbers and eggs out behind the boat, using our anchor position as the top of our drift. Craig dangled the plug some more. The hole was a uniform 4' deep with frog water to the left and a gentle current seam to our right. Fish were rolling all around.

"bobber down!" Allysa sets the hook but nothing. Then it happened again. And again! We determined that something small was messing with us. Who knows- we set the float rods down out of frustration.

I forced myself to go with the homemade spinner. BAM! Fish on! I had casted out to the general area of the egg biters, and a fish hammered my lure from ten feet out. Ok! It thrashed around on the surface long enough for Craig to get the net, then it was off. Alright I'm gonna fire up the GoPro now. Fishing is hot!! Almost immediately lost another, landed a nice hen, and released a gnarly pink.

Things slowed down for me. I had a couple times where I got hits and momentary hookups, one hit right next to the boat and jumped, but was already off, and a few trout seemed to nibble too.

"Fish on!" Allysa had casted a Blue Fox clear across the river, and I look up to see a bent rod and a fish doing cartwheels over by the opposite bank. We could tell it was big because it had no trouble swimming upriver and staying parallel to the steady pressure she was putting on it. A chrome buck! It slides into the net. At this point Craig had hooked fish on one of my homemade spinners and on a dick night. We weren't counting him out but my engine wasn't starting. luckily we were upriver of the launch so we started drifting and hitting juicy spots so we could make it home at a decent hour. Craig hooked another on the twitchin spinner and Allysa hooked one on a jig- both of which got off. Story of the day, but man it was fishy out there!!

FInally we had to call it, and started trolling downriver with the electric on full bore. this produced nothing. Go figure!

I made a video of the trip! Please watch. There will be another as well once I obtain the footage from Allysas Hero 7!!

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