Fished the beaches of cresent harbo yesterday afternoon, as soon as the tide changed the fish started to jump, had one monster on, think i foul hooked him and her got off with a pink buzz bomb, than the action died with a couple of what looked like small steelhead. Talked to a couple people that morning on patrol and saw a guy have 2 good fish on in the morning, about 8 or 9 using a pink buzz bomb, saw alot of fish, but nothing would touch anything. AWHHH!!!!!!!!!!

I keep hearing that these fish dont bite, as I walk back to the truck with my daily limit.

Use something other than a huge chunk of lead and a treble hook and they actually do bite. Eggs, Dick Nites, Spoons, Jigs under a float etc....

fly..what are you doing to consistantly be getting limits. I usually can limit out every time I go to the beach by my house this time of year. Not this year. I have caught many in the river so far, kings and silvers, but getting a silver to bite in the salt this year has been hell. Are you on a river or the salt?

I've been banging my head on the rocks. I've been throwing everything in every color with every different scent.

Cowlitz, Puy, and Carbon are all lock jawed. Am I one of the few who is willing to admit defeat by a fish? Sounds like alot of "fish stories" told lately.

No, you're not one of the few Dr. E. I have never spent so much time fishing for silvers that just won't bite. All my normal ways of catching them just has not worked. I did better early in the season, when it first opened on local fish than I am doing now. Luckily the mighty ugly, stinky, muddy "Ditch" has kept me happy. If I were left to the local haunts around here on Whidbey my freezer would be a fish free zone.

All the silvers I've seen in the salt this year are completely lock-jawed. I'm glad I'm not the only one having difficulty. I've tried lighter leaders, smaller lures, even the flyrod but with virtually no luck. I've had days like this in the past but not weeks. The fish I've seen are feeding too but I just can't tell what they are locked in on. It seems similar to trout that are completely dialed in on one specific insect and won't touch anything else.

Rookies! Bust out the fish whistle and git-er-done.

You got a fish whistle I can borrow Sol? I was wondering what the trick was this year.

Asking to blow on Sol's fish whistle sounds like a very, very dangerous thing to do.

My whistle resonates at a professional frequency. You would die, just ask Fly. Better pick up a beginners whistle, dude.

Don't know what the problem with the silvers are.. I know we did get into a few on a small coastal river on spinners and eggs but it was some pretty bleak fishing for the amount of fish seen. The funny part was every silver we landed had an adipose fin and it has both wild and hatchery silvers there.

Guess moral of the story is if Fish and Game would discard these non-biting hatchery fish and start up a broodstock program on some wild ones, we might see some decent fishing...

Also, if there were some more water that couldn't hurt!

Keith

Anyone ever fished for sockeye in lake washington??? It just occurred to me coho eat krill too. so i tied a couple bright red gamies under a float covered in krill oil and bloop....
i still can't believe it...

I actually wondered about the krill thing for silvers but didn't actually go for the full on test like you did. Well done!

Wait until they get to a river and snag-em. It works every time, fall is definitely my favorite time of the year.

Great Dude. Maybe you could get your 9/0 Treble hooks in the belly and tear it open all in one foul swoop so you don't have to take out your knife get the roe out!!

WHAT?.... Sol, I had a feeling your whistle might be of "professional quality".

Sure right about the lockjaw theory! I have hit my secret holes up and down the Stilly, all over the Snohomish and today up on the Sky. Fish are not as thick as past years but are still thick enough. All the go to ways are just not working. With exception of the wiggle warts on the lower Sno that did work a couple weeks ago. Nothing else will. I will try some roe and see if thats the trick soon on the trib of the Skagit we love so much...

By the way, ADDICTED WE NEED TO MEET AND FISH! sounds like we frequent the same areas. I may take my boat out for LW coho or Local Sturgeon holes. Let me know if you want to go.

Put me in the defeated by lockjaw club. The only few fish caught on my boat where hootchies stuffed with krill paste, but just a few.

On Saturday we didn't catch a thing with the exception of some shakers. But, as I was trolling along the boat goes by a banana peel floating in the middle of the sound. At that point I knew all was lost.

Hey, you guys who are smacking them how about posting a few photos so we can remember what they look like.

I've always found in the rivers that they really won't get aggressive until they are stacked in the holes having to compete. They'll jump and such but won't hit anything. Right now is like fishing in August. IMO there just aren't enough of them yet.

This year I'm finding on the salt that a slow troll is keeping shakers off and I'm hooking silvers. Although not as many as normal but I'm getting them when others aren't. Why? I don't know but it's working.