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With deer hunting weather crap and no travel this weekend I decided to go fishing for a change. With dismal reports I planned to just stay close and bang my head against the dashboard until something happened. They say the sign of insanity is repeating the same thing over and over expecting different results. So knowing salmon fishing is on the brink of insanity anyway I found a poor sole that is at the start of his slide down the slippery slope of salmon insanity and wanted to go for a boat ride to talk fishing. So we started fall fishing off with a bang and popped a nice coho shortly after setting up, that would be it for the trip. Spoon at 18ft on a rigger, several bait changes and not another sniff.

Since I hadn't been put in a straight jacket and rubber room we snuck out the next morning and looked like it may be the bust we were expecting a 3 color lead with a stick bait started to scream, ended with a hook bending and a nice king swimming off just outside of netting range. Made another couple passes and a nice steelhead ripped the same setup jumped once and that was all she wrote.

So as I guessed I wasn't insane yet tried again this morning as my son wanted to take his girlfriend to try for her first salmon, worked the same general area ended 2-3 again 2 decent coho and pretty sure the one we lost was a coho also. Spoon, SD/F and stick bait got the action today.

Over the years plugs have been a very strong fall producer for me but nothing the last few trips, ran some meat also with no success. So in summary riggers, dipsey's, and planner combo's hit sporatically. There are a few fish around, will there be a staging and big run? Sorry my last working crystal ball broke a couple weeks ago when the lottery was at a gazillion dollars that I didn't win either. Good luck if you venture out the weather has been great for early and late fishing.

Thanks for the report.