I often hear guys disdain pinks. But as my good friend John Koenig says, "Pinks are made for kids." John helped my grandson have a great day.

Yes there are coho in the river, but rain and a short attention span kept us from getting any. Even so my grandson had a hoot. Now he wants a coho. I don;t get out with him too often,but pan to hit the Skagit later when we have a shot at chums and coho.

Were you up there yesterday, Dave? We floated by that spot around 4pm, I'd guess...humpy city...we caught a few coho, but not much to write home about...

Fish on...

Todd

looks like he had a Great Time!!! pinks are great for kids...and they are great for me for smoking and giving to all my customers for christmas presents...and for the small few that dont like fish...they get my fudge...or both...hahahha....oh yeah, and triple choc chunk brownies...pinks are great though...its worth another catch card or two if you make other people happy with em...c

Very nice all the time you seem to spend with your young ones
Dave. Makes me recall the best of times growing up fishing at my grandfather's side, he was also a traveling angler. (Thanks for reminding me to remember him.)

Saw J.K.'s rig there yesterday, must have missed you all in our hurried sprint upstream to beat the rain !

I'm with you on this one. I like to see these kinds of posts. Thanks Pop.

WTG, Dave! Very Cool!

Very cool. Nothing better than getting the kiddos into fish!

Exactly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There also great when you take someone out who knows nothing about Salmon and after catching a bunch of Pinks they think you must be the greatest fishing person in the world.

Give Pinks their due, they seem to do better than any other species in just about any river in any kind of conditions they are in. That makes them pretty special. Pinks are Salmon to and deserve respect.

agreed. i work with a guy who swears the best way to cook salmon is to scale it, cut off the head and the tail and dump a bottle of french dressing on it.

guess who will be getting my hen chums in a few weeks from now?

here's a picture for a test

pinks are great for a river system. Carcasses adding nutrients for smolts and Sturgy fat bastards. John Koenig is great to fish with and great with kids.

Awesome pictures pretty cool to see the young guy drivin the boat! Koenig knows that river like no other as well.

Cool stuff.Good luck,
STRIKE ZONE


Let'em eat it,It's there last meal.

I agree.

Nice pics Dave. Looks like fun for the kids. Pinks keep the neighbors from the "good" fish.

RVW

gives me an opportunity to post another pic of lindsey.

snohomish river :





gotta love the lowly pink salmon.....it's so much more than cat food!



willy

That's a great photo! my grandson is afraid to hold them. I still have work to do . .