In this day and age of conterversy on which rivers to close and at what times to close them to protect certain salmon species. It is nice once in awhile to sit buy a river and watch the fish make their journey to either be caught or die in the cycle of life or watch from a distance them actually in the ritual of spawning.

Yesterday I went to camp at the Dosewallips State Park with the intent of on my way back to Port Townsend to stop and try fishing for one of the silvers making their way to the hatchery on the Quilcene river. While camping at the Dosie I decided to go for a walk down by the river and try to relax and with the river closed to fishing on the lower stretches I figured I could find a nice place to sit and watch the river and listen to nature. Well the Chum where in fairly thick and just watching them fan out a bed and watching the hens chase of males until shes ready was fun to watch and I knew there where going to be a few future fish.

Then this morning I stopped at the quil and after fishing with a corky and yarn and letting an hour go by before losing a nice little silver I decided to just sit and watch and had a guy come down snag one above the Hwy 101 bridge(closed waters) and then releasing it when he realized to game wardens where watching with binoculars from the hatchery. I just sat and enjoyed the fish making their way upstream and even seeing a nice native steelhead.

Guess what I am saying is just once in awhile sit and watch and be thankful we have such a glorious place on this world to do such things.

And hopfully tomorrow I will indeed nail a nice one and enjoy a great meal with my family.