you should fish the skok. i like seeing how many of the nets and palm sized treble hooks i can find. one day off of purdy creek cut off road i pulled 4 old nets out of the water and there was one i couldnt get to. all of them stacked full of kings and silvers. someone told me that cleaning up the nets in the river is illegal and i can get a ticket for taking the nets out?? dont know if its true but it probably is. twice this fall i seen piles of salmon with over 200 fish in them and one of them had atleast 500. all females and all missing the eggs of course. but if you just go fishing with me on any day i can find a pile of 10 or 20 like it was nothing. and i can take you to see 5 or 6 indians working the good holes with the huge treble hook. my favorite one is the little white kid. he will snag one about every cast and if its a male he gets pissed and shakes it around until it gets ripped off the hook. then he kicks it back in the water(if he doesnt decide to stab it and throw it on the bank, and yes the kid does that too) well i hate indians and could go on and on but i wanna start in on everyone else now. how many times have you gone to a busy spot to see some redneck with an almost empty half rack just pitching his beer cans and whatever else in the river? or howbout them damn styrofoam containers that hold worms? im damn tired of picking up after these people too. i fill a black trash bag every time i go to the skokomish river. and every time i go to the river i never see anyone else packing out trash (theirs or someone elses) so i dont feel these people can really complain about litter. if you aint helping youre part of the problem. and before i get out i just wanna say that the news doesnt care about the indians raping the salmon runs. i emailed them after they did their little bit about the chums simming across the roads when we flooded and they showed all the people throwing them back in the river. i told them that i could take them to a spot right down the road from where they just did that report and i could show them 500 gutted female salmon. not a word was emailed back to me. i told them i got video of indians snagging and netting just for the eggs. again nothing. they dont care. no one really does. atleast not someone high enough up the political ladder to do anything about it. just do what i do throw rocks at the little injuns