Friday's red hot bite on Willamette

[Dakotan]

Riverkeeper, Rainrshine, and I braved the wind and rain on Friday and launched at Willamette Park at 0600 and trolled back and forth all day in varying depths. We used prawns and herring and could not keep the smolt off of our hooks. How in the world can a smolt attack something that is bigger than it? It was just one after another. Three quarters of them were finclipped too. Did an upstream hatchery just release a bunch of them? I'll bet we caught 25 of them. Has anyone else had that problem? Riverkeeper did manage a nice hatchery springer to the boat at 7:30am but after that it was a smolt show. Maybe he'll post a picture of it.

[THE HAPPY HOOKER]

Good morning Dakotan, It's incredible what these little smolt are doing. I'm ooooffffer 21 hours for these nookies, but have yet to be skunked thanks to these little smolts. I have gone thru more prawns and herring already than i would have for 2 months. I don't remember this happening like this in years past. It's nice to know there's so many of them. Now hurry up and grow up and remember it was me who freed you back into the wild, so when you come calling again i will have that same cold beverage waiting for you. :smile: :smile: :smile: