Fished there quite a bit in the late '80's and early '90's, and the experience was barely marginal then...I've stopped by and watched it over the last six or eight years, and there's nothing marginal about it at all, so I've definitely seen it through the years.

That being said...back in the day I only fished one way...with spinners, with single hooks.

I foulhooked a few, of course, but most all the ones I hooked, I hooked...unfortunately once 8am arrived the fish had been so severely harrassed that there weren't none of them biting after that...at least not with their mouths.

It's the same story as on the Skokomish...big, beautiful fish...and an absolute disaster of "sportsmen" trying to "get them to bite".

When you are participating in a fishery where you feel the need to say "hooked him right in the mouth!"...well, it ain't much of a fishery to my mind.

I wish there was a way to take all the ijits and send them away, and then have actual fisherman try to get fish to bite on those rivers...in the long run there would actually be more caught, I bet...it's easier to catch biters than it is to snag non-biters, and when they are made to be non-biters due to lures ripping by and into them all day, we actually catch less of them overall.

Fish on...

Todd