Put in a couple serious days of fishing with some pretty decent results. We tried one of our favorite salmon rivers off the Columbia, but it was muddy as it could be, visibility about two inches. Not sure what’s going on there, but it sure put a damper on what usually is a great chinook salmon fishing spot. It wasn’t a total loss, I must have caught about twenty sturgeon; better to catch something than get skunked. Would have like to have some chinook on the hook, but the sturgeon were fun to catch and saved the day.
Back on the main river with clear water we had better luck. I caught two nice coho salmon. Both were native fish and put up a great fight. The wild fish are much better fighters than the hatchery salmon, for sure. Bad news is I had to release both of them and the worse news is that I caught both of them before sunrise so it was too dark for the crappy GoPro camera so I didn’t get any video either. Still fun catching the first couple fish of the day while everyone is still figuring out what to do.
For some reason, the sturgeon are really liking me and I caught a few more today. Sure, I’d rather have salmon, but this fish put on quite the aerial display
Taking tomorrow off to take care of business then back on the water. The steelhead video is almost finished. I know I’ve been saying that for awhile, but this time I really mean it!