Week #4 at Astoria

[David Johnson]

What great fishing! We really got into them this week with a total of 53 fish for six trips-an average of over eight fish per trip! And all but eight of them were chinook. The largest chinook tipped the scales at 46 pounds and the largest silver was 15 :smile:

Wednesday, Thursday and Friday were double digit days with Thursday being on level of Alaskan fishing. We hooked 17 and landed 14 Chinook by the time we quit at nine o'clock in the morning! We had three doubles, two of them within fifteen minutes of fishing. As the morning moved along it was incredible, I never got more than three lines back in the water for over two hours.

Finally some silvers have started to show in the river, and some of them are real nice. Yesterday we had a fifteen pounder and today a fourteen pounder.

I always hear all these old school things about slow role for chinook and fast for silver-fish deep for chinook and shallow for silvers. Fish don't stick to those rules. I always have a pretty fast spin on my herring and we've been getting just as many chinook close to the surface as silvers down deep. Our 46 pounder came off the bow rod at fifteen pulls.

This week also had a real good ratio for hooked to landed fish, that's the only way to rack up big numbers. I don't think we lost more than eight fish all week. If we had a fish bury the rod chances are it was going on a trip all the way to the boat :grin: