You too, have lots of time.... You do not know me, nor have you seen me fish, so do not accuse me of snagging. Make up your mind about snaggers, Do they care what size hook? Do they want to go smaller or bigger hook?

Question: What do hooks penetrate?

Answer: Maybe a hook is meant to penetrate something soft, like skin? Ah yes, that's why it's sharp and has a barb. I thought they were sharp to penetrate bones ha-ha-ha, just kidding couldn't resist.

Question: Does the mouth of a chum have an outer layer of skin?

Answer: Hmmmm....I'm stumped...I dunno why my bigger, thicker hooks kept popping out of their mouths. So I looked in my little Plano box and saw thinner hooks that looked like they were made out of aluminum or some dull metal. BINGO! I no longer had the problem of my hooks popping out, but now had a problem with foul hooking fish as the tide was lower and more fish were spreading out. Sooooooo, lol, I decided to go to smaller hooks made out of the same metal and YAY! No more fouls!

Part two of your post: the fish I was referring to were the 2 darker fish. Those were the two caught at night, maybe you can tell by the flash and darkness in the pic? * And no, not every fish I hooked or landed was in the mouth because there were hundreds, if not thousands of fish in that creek, making it easy to foul hook fish ( I sincerely apologize, LOL). Which I even did without trying like just reeling in my line or taking my line out of the water to practice flipping it out there, sorry AGAIN LOL. Hence the reason for me changing the size of hook.

I drove out to Minter Creek from Port Angeles which is about a 2-2.5 hour drive depending on traffic and speed. It's kind of a long drive and I must not do it too much, as XMas is coming and I should buy some presents, LOL.

I arrived at Minter approximately 1230PM and it took me many, many casts and many, many dark bellied fish to find my 2nd chromer (page 1, post 1, pic 3) . So I would say it was around 2 or 3pm when I had my 2nd fish on the stringer. At that time, it was high tide and getting to be sundown and I did not want to leave, lolololol. When it is high tide at Minter, the fishing sucks because the water is black and I can no longer see the bright fish. Is that bad to see the bright ones and target them? If it is, I apologize . Anyways, I continued to fish...Well, it was getting dark and I like fishing *, so I decided to stay and continue trying to find bright, possibly some nice chrome Chums...Now at around 6 the tide went down and lots of fish started to enter the whole creek.

This was exciting, I waited a long time for the tide to go back down. So I put on my LED headlight, **sorry if those are bad to possess, I apologize...and hooked a female. Is that bad? Anyways, I landed her and my light shined on her, and then I saw shiny scales YAY!and a white belly YAY!...see pics on page one, lol. Maybe 10 minutes later I landed another fish . It looked brighter than the 3rd, so I decided to keep it because I was wet, cold and it was getting too chaotic with all the fish. Since it was a female, the Russian (?) kid catching fish with a net next to me...yes, catching fish with a net ...asked if he could have the eggs. I gave them to him because I had enough eggs and he made me laugh...sorry if that was bad of me, I apologize. As mentioned before I decided to look for gear in the bushes and trees.

It was now really cold out and my hands were turning white. So I decided to leave. Actually, I was planning on spending the night in my car but it was too cold. I was then going to get a motel so I didn't have to drive all the way back out from PA, but a waste of money. I would have liked to fish it the next day, as I didn't have to work, but since I was all slimy, bloody, and cold I decided to just head home.

BTW, I am laughing as I type this, LOL

*denotes a hint of sarcasm
**more than a hint of sarcasm

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