It's as sure as a bear craps in the woods that coho bite more aggressively on water dropping into shape after running high and dirty. It's also a fact that three days later when the water is low and clear, the same fish will be spooky and finicky.

I gave up trying to figure out silvers a long time ago. They're just wired different. I've fished days on the Chehalis when they'd be jumping around biting nothing and driving you nuts, and then for no apparent reason (no tide change) just fire off on anything you'd throw only to go lockjaw again later in the day.

They're freaks. Because of that, sometimes it helps to throw freaky things like little tiny DN's or a hoochie on a jig head, or a Slug-Go worm, or who knows, it will sometimes get you a fish when nobody else is hitting paydirt.


Stupid fish.