I got up early on Friday and went to the Skokomish and as luck would have it, I hooked a nice king on my very first cast. (In the mouth) Now, if you have fished the Skokomish, you know that several fish get hooked in other places then the mouth and everyone was being a sportsman and releasing foul hooked fish and everyone was having a good time. About 11:00 am, a Skokomish Indian showed up, or so he said, but he did not look to be native American. He had a huge piece of lead below a treble hook and just started snagging fish on almost every cast, and then as the fish got in everyone elses way, wanted us to get out of his way. When he landed it he threw it on the bank. As the pile started to get bigger, everyone was so mad they started leaving. It was pretty sick. If I would have had a cell phone I would have called the game department to check it out. I then thought I would go to the Carbon to see how opening day was going. I went up to Voights Creek and there must have been 250 guys there. I started looking for a spot to fish and all I was seeing was white guys hooking up all over the place, and nearly everyone was snagged. It didn't matter, they tossed them on the bank. I said something to a couple guys and got told to f/o....I was there for nearly an hour and probably saw 30 fish landed, almost all snagged and kept....pretty sick. Is keeping a fish that important?....sure wish I had a badge Friday, I would have generated alot of money for the State.
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