At the first of the year it was the nates on the home rivers EF, Kalama, Washougal, we took several in the teens but only one on the washougal over 20. Took 4 trips to the penninsula and released many, many fish on the Bogey, Duc, Calawah, upper hoh, and the D** well a fun small creek up there. The hoko and liar elwah and dungenous in the spring were awesome.
For springers didn't go much further than my backyard NF Lewis, Kalama, Willamette had some great days with one day hooking 14 on the Lewis. Summerruns- Unreal fishing on the Lewis's Kalama, washougal-three 7-9 fish days, Big White salmon with days catching over 20.
The silvers- I've never seen the # of silvers that I did as the Lewis. It was tougher this year than others to get these buggers to bite but overall my buddy and myself probably boated 400-500 silvers in Sept-Nov. Chinook- we probably hooked a couple hundred chinook also incidently there, We had several 6-10 fish days out at the mouth of the cowlitz with the highlight fish being caught by my boss who hasn't fished much in his life, he took a 51 lb. king on Aug 26th absolutely a georgeous fish.
For the winter fish we have only just begun,
The vicious cycle that keeps me smiling and alive and going strong every day is ready to begin again and I just can't wait for this spring, summer, fall, winter, spring, summer, fall, winter. It never ends!!!!!!!!
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It's time to put the red rubber nose away, clown seasons over.