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A little bit of trolling motor issues gave us a late start but fished 7-12:30 and ended with 13 keepers, only a couple toss-backs all on minnows.  Started at the state park- was slow but steady.  Moved east and found nothing.  Went back near the donut around 11:30 and trolled .5 mph hoping to find a school.  Graph lit up on the bottom, hit spot lock, and in a matter of 30 seconds 5 rods hit and we pulled up 4 nice ones including a double.  With fish flopping on the floor of the boat we frantically reloaded and dropped our rigs back in only to not score a single hit for the rest of the day…couldn’t figure out if we scared them off or what happened.  Anyways a solid day on the water.

On another note, was surprised to see how many boats were out trolling the port in the morning.  Either there is something going on out there that’s hush hush or nothing to report about…I guess all us internet scouters out of the loop will have to try ourselves and find out the old-fashioned way .

Another forum says a batch of skamania is shooting up the creeks. And another says kings are starting to stage.

Some silver fish in close staging.

Wait: you haven't heard about our top secret fall return king salmon fishery yet?  Where you been!!??  It's world class, given our record stockings.

I thought the run peaked about two months ago for steelhead….but very possible.  I originally thought that there weren’t enough kings to draw a ton of attention but maybe that’s not the case.  67.5k stocked in the east branch of the Little Cal in 2018.  Hopefully there are a few still swimming.

Some decent Cohos in tight also. 8-12lbs they are fun to catch too.

Big cohos…sounds like a good time!