no need to discuss the name of the river but will be trying to catch a few sockeye this summer in a washington river,can anyone please give me some info on how to hook these fish in a river,thanks for any info.

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Curt, first they will have to have a river open for them. I haven't heard of any of those. If there are, the socks are more challenging to catch coming fresh up a river thatn the other salmon or steelhead. They are often non-biters until they get higher up the rivers and start holing up. Then they will bite spoons/spinners and flies, and also just on steelhead type drift gear with eggs. ... The best place to catch them in Washington is in Lake Washington trolling a pair of shrimp scented plain 1/0 red colored hooks behind a flasher - 50' to 80' deep. Has anyone heard conjecture about another sock season this summer there?

RT