I live in the Everett area and my son and I always look foward to fishing the Chum run in the Wallace, every year they usually show up in November. We spend a lot of quality fishing time on them and have a real ball!. They can totally wear you out! and on a 8 or 9 wt. fly rod they are unbelivable. We have never kept one yet but we like to catch'em.
We went up to B.C. this year to the Veder in October and caught a bunch of them, along with Pink's, and White Kings, which are HUGE!