Different day for me today. Visited my rock again at about an hour before and 2 hours past the high tide, still throwing the "magic lure," and while I saw a few kings rolling at the high slack, I saw no signs of movers and got no bites. The two seals that have been hanging out there were swimming around aimlessly and looking up at me, almost as if to say "where did they go?" Pretty sure I spotted one of our regulars who fishes the same stretch running upriver to look at something, and he must not have liked what he saw, because he turned right around and headed for the takeout without so much as dropping anchor. I think that should have been my sign... if that was who I thought it was, he knows what to look for.

I was due for a good, old-fashioned Chehalis bank fishing skunking, but I always wonder where the fish have gone when a day like today happens this time of year. Maybe they were right there and in lockjaw mode. I looked at the lower Satsop on the way out, and I don't think that's where they went. Still crazy low and deathly silent. Someone knows where they are.....