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Pierce County, WA

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09/05/2013
Casting
Pink Salmon
Attractor
Orange
Raining
Corky & Yarn
Morning
09/05/2013
4
1905

Alarm went of at 3:30. I arrived in Orting at 0-dark-thirty, greeted by pouring rain, thunder, and lightning-- almost turned back due to the lightning, but glad I didn't. I had a really nice honey hole to myself for the first hour of light. I caught one immediately when day broke on a pink corky/yarn. Then from 6-10 am the fish were completely lock-jawed. I threw everything I had at them... dick nites, all manner of corkies, jigs both under bobber and twitched. All the fish wanted to do was move up. And there were A LOT of pinks on the move. They would roll right in front of you and bump your line when a group pushed through-- I accidently fowl hooked two and sent them on their way.

Around 10 something pretty cool happened-- I was in zombie mode due to the lack of sleep and fish action. I was reeling in at the end of a retrieve, when about 5 feet from shore one of the fins right under the water made a quick B-line for my two small orange corkies. The fish chomped my corkies right as they were about to leave the water; almost jumping to do so. It hooked itself right on the tip of the nose. I basically flipped it onto shore before it knew what happened. Brightest fish of the day-- a little 2-3 pound hen.

After that the bite at least had a pulse. I got two more (reaching the four fish limit) on orange corkies by 11:30. The two I caught later in the day were pretty dark, but I kept them. Tomorrow I'll set my smoker to "so overdone it all tastes the same" mode!

PS: Like in past seasons you have to get a parking pass for river access. This year it's at the local sporting goods store (cool place!) and it costs $10. I got my pass around 7 pm yesterday and scouted the river. I did get one yesterday on a pink Worden spoon drifted right about a set of rapids.

Photo: Terrible auto-photo when I got home. The fish closest to the camera is about 3 seconds from falling off of that stick onto my floor-- splattering blood everywhere!


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Toni
9/6/2013 7:32:00 AM
Nice report. I have read that the river is cloudy and fish can not see anything in it. I have thought that humans can't see and they think fish can't see. What do you think the human viability was?
Fish-or-man?
9/6/2013 8:28:00 AM
Hi Toni! Visibility is poor and seems to be declining from my observation from the 4th to the 5th. The water was grey Wednesday, and more chocolate milk-y Thursday after the rain. My gear disappeared about 6 inches into the water. Now that I think of it-- I only caught one fish in a deep pocket- three were caught pretty shallow wear my gear had to be close to their line of sight.
Fish-or-man?
9/6/2013 10:43:00 AM
oh! something else I should have mentioned is all strikes came on gear smothered in Salmon Feast smelly jelly-- the thick kind.
Hendo84
9/6/2013 3:11:00 PM
Did you see or hear of any kings landed?
Fish-or-man?
9/6/2013 4:37:00 PM
heard of one-- didn't see any.
Rosann G
9/7/2013 10:57:00 PM
Congrats, nice fish!
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