Sinker I got a call last night that upper Hood Canal was loaded with fresh fish heading south. The area around the Salisbury boat ramp was really producing...even from the bank. My contacts fishing in the salt in Quil Bay tell me it's just loaded. Looks like small trolled or mooched cutplug is the going ticket.
Looks like a bigger and better repeat of last year where we had fish clear through the end of October.

River dropped again making life tough in the lower river. One excellent burst of fish around 6pm. Hooked into a bunch of FishOn! Dam FishOff! Kept a pair of nice hens then released the third..a dink..girlfriend always gives me a bad time about this...seems to consistently affect my ability to land fish. Anyway half way through this I'd converted a half dozen snaggers to fishing black yarn...one guy told me I was just havin too much fun. Plus my converts from the other day showed up with black yarn...one guy drove an hour that morning just to find some. There's a definite lighting affect on the success of my use of this color...7pm I couldn't touch a fish. Thinking of trying blue,purple or violet....any of you got experiences or ideas that might be useful? Had to politely get nasty with a couple of yahoos but Guys in the upper river should have slayed them with the horde that came in yesterday.
My old Lamiglass is now retired to memory corner with a couple of worn out shotguns...
In lieu of getting my hands on an Allstar 1025c I picked uo a nice Shimano from my homestore the Cove RV Park...not bad. Still want the Allstar before winter steelie season.
Always FishOn!
Gooose