Its tough to beat October. The first rains of the year drown out the summer stagnant water, trees start to turn, nights get colder... Summer steel, coho, and kings.

My second favorite time is February. Crowds die down, days start getting longer and the elusive native steel comes home. No more cookie cutter 5-7lb hatchery runts. 20+ hawgs become more of a reality.
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"I have a fair idea of what to expect from the river, and usually, because I fish it that way, the river gives me approximately what I expect of it. But sooner or later something always comes up to change the set of my ways..."
- Roderick Haig-Brown