Hello list members,
Fished from the beach Friday night at Sekiu with a some success. It is the first time I actually landed several Coho with in 20' feet of shore. The fish were hooking up sometimes right at the end of my rod tip and the takes were violent and powerful with long fast runs often times taking me into the backing. I put my pontoon boat in and rowed back and forth next to the kelp beds just off the beach till dark casting and stripping a pink and white buck tail with a few more suicidal fish in tow. What a way to start out the weekend. Early Saturday morning Andy Towell(List Member) and I Fished the Sol Duc for silvers and unlike two weeks earlier we didn't even touch a fish which was a total disappointment since we were expecting a day of great fishing due to the rains last week. The water was clearing up and dropping fast. We were on the bank at 5:30AM and watched six boats drift by in the first hour and a half. The hardware guys picked off a f!
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ew with spinners but that was it. After breakfast we were off again to Clallum bay. This time over in the east bay where we were successful once again. There is a lot of bait swimming in the bay and even more Coho in chase the last few weeks. The best was saved for last on this trip though, in a rented boat from Olsens, $50.00 for a half day, we buck tailed our flies behind the bout for less than ten minutes and wham! another five pounder. In about four and a half hours Andy and I released at least twenty five fish between the two of us and had at least that many more takes. It's too bad we didn't run into Leland and his gang but it sounds like the fishing was similar, Great.
--- PATRICK PETERSEN
