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| The first hookup took some deciphering of what shooting head (sink rate) and fly (color,size, & weight) to use. The water conditions were coming off of blown out and brown to becoming pea soup green and fishable. |
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| It is really a special place to catch a salmon while in sight of the ocean's breaking waves. |
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| A smaller Chinook coming in for a landing..... |
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| Small and fat for a Chinook. This fin-clipped fish is top notch table fare. |
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| Admiring this fine fish and its proximity to the ocean..... |
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| A hard fighting fish that didn't want to yield after a long battle. |
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| It looks like the Chinook was the winner this time......It managed to unpin itself moments later. |
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| Waves crashing give the air a salty feel..... |
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| Sitka Spruces can have some wild shapes which make you think about what the winds can get like. |
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| It took a little while to figure out where the exact sweet spot in the hole was, due to swollen and faster flows from the rain two days prior. |
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| Changing the shooting head to something with a faster sink rate did the trick; resulting in a hookup with a hard fighting Chinook Salmon. I decided to change shooting heads after not having a hookup for the first two hours because I felt like my fly was not staying in the strike zone long enough. I did change my fly several times before changing the shooting head; so make sure you cover both variables when you are not hooking up, and you know you are fishing in a spot where fish are present. |
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| Swish swish coming in for a landing...... |
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| Yet I am trying really hard not to get landed....Swish Swish!!! |
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| This Chinook fresh from the salt is battling hard to the last possible moment. |
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| Tailed and subdued.....What a snow belly! |
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| A super fine chrome bright Chinook Salmon |
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| Thinking about how hard this fish beat me down during the battle. It was worth every moment!! |
Looks like yor fall was a success! Now on to Spring. Tight Lines!
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