This past weekend put a glimmer of hope in my abysmal bay/mainstem Chehalis season.... finally found some biters.

But as SoftBite said, my own experience on the water tells me the coho forecast is WAY off. The more than 1/4 million projected for the entire basin should have made rods bend virtually NON-stop through the trolling day all week...well at least enough to keep almost any chinook from latching onto the gear. That is certainly NOT the case. That bumper crop of coho is a resounding NO SHOW!

Compared to that last banner coho year of 2009.... total bites per day WAY down, proportion of coho WAY down. Really makes a guy yearn for days gone by.

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