David Johnson
08-22-2003, 09:53 PM
The last couple days have seen some great fishing in Astoria.
More and more silvers are starting to push in but chinook are still way more common on our boat.
The last two days we've had our limit of chinook by 9 a.m. Then it's a grind to get some silvers.
Yesterday we finished with five chinook and eight silvers. How could we miss with a couple ladies on board :dance:
Today was the NSIA Buoy 10 Salmon Challenge. I guided Team Amato and we had a blast.
I again today I had two gals on the boat but lady luck was with the boys today :shocked:
We whacked 'em and stacked 'em.
We hooked 25 fish and landed 18-22 hooked by us guys :shrug:
Dave Kilhefner was on my boat and he took 3rd for largest fish-a awesome 32.8# Up River Bright Chinook graemlins/applause.gif
Couldn't keep them darn chinook off either. We kept five chinook and released three others. Six silvers also went in the box and four silvers went back in the river.
I wish I had some pics but I'm away from home without a computer that can download my camera.
A lot of people ask me how deep I'm fishing. I'm just going out there and doing the normal thing. The fish don't read the rule book, or at least they don't read the same rule book we do.
I've been getting chinook on my shallow rods and silvers on the deep rods. Today 18 pulls was the hot number, tomorrow it will probably be different again. Our fish have been coming from as shallow as 12 pulls to as deep as 25. The key is to keep trying all the depths until you find one that is working for you that day.
More and more silvers are starting to push in but chinook are still way more common on our boat.
The last two days we've had our limit of chinook by 9 a.m. Then it's a grind to get some silvers.
Yesterday we finished with five chinook and eight silvers. How could we miss with a couple ladies on board :dance:
Today was the NSIA Buoy 10 Salmon Challenge. I guided Team Amato and we had a blast.
I again today I had two gals on the boat but lady luck was with the boys today :shocked:
We whacked 'em and stacked 'em.
We hooked 25 fish and landed 18-22 hooked by us guys :shrug:
Dave Kilhefner was on my boat and he took 3rd for largest fish-a awesome 32.8# Up River Bright Chinook graemlins/applause.gif
Couldn't keep them darn chinook off either. We kept five chinook and released three others. Six silvers also went in the box and four silvers went back in the river.
I wish I had some pics but I'm away from home without a computer that can download my camera.
A lot of people ask me how deep I'm fishing. I'm just going out there and doing the normal thing. The fish don't read the rule book, or at least they don't read the same rule book we do.
I've been getting chinook on my shallow rods and silvers on the deep rods. Today 18 pulls was the hot number, tomorrow it will probably be different again. Our fish have been coming from as shallow as 12 pulls to as deep as 25. The key is to keep trying all the depths until you find one that is working for you that day.