C_Run
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We had a family fishing day at Buoy 10 last Saturday. Since my wife retired last year she has been getting more and more interested in fishing. She did great at kokanee last spring and we took a couple of guided trips to the McKenzie where she managed three steelhead but salmon eluded us. I made the good move to book a trip with Marvin's Guide Service right away to get her into a salmon and we were able to get her brother and our son along also. My son and I had been out with Marvin three years ago so there was no question who we wanted to fish with.
It was overcast and choppy to start with and I am pretty notorious for getting sick so I was a bit queasy the first few hours. I lost a fish at the net right away but it wasn't long until our son hooked up the first time with a wild coho.
Soon was my brother-in-law's turn with a big keeper coho, Marvin's biggest of the season , he said.
Marvin introduced the fish to his little friend, Tonya Harding.
The fish box was starting to fill up.
By lunch we had caught about eight fish and three were keepers. There seemed to be plenty of wild coho and we also got a couple of Chinook jacks that were an inch shy of being legal. Everybody had caught two or three fish except my wife who had not even had a bite even though she was in the same seat using the spinner that had been the hot ticket the day before. I intended to hand off the rod on my second fish but, right away, I was tangled in my son's line and we had to do some fast choreography in the back of the boat to keep from loosing it. As we were eating lunch, Marvin and my wife were engaging in some banter about how to change her luck by biting the head off a herring. It went on and on but (who knew she would really do it!!) she jumped up and walked back to Marvin who handed her the herring and she chomped the head off and spit it out and flung the rest over the side. I couldn't believe my eyes. After some spitting and high-fiving Marvin, she returned to her seat. Now , I am not lying about this, after that she had her first fish on in less than one minute! We've got witnesses! It turned out to be a wild coho but, at least she scored her first salmon ever.
The afternoon wore on and we continued to hook up now and then. I lost count but I think we had about a dozen fish to the boat and ended up with five keepers and only lost two all day. Four were coho and my wife's second fish ,a Chinook in the mid-20's, the biggest fish of the day.
I hope we get to do this next year. Thanks Marvin for getting us into some great fishing and especially my wife's first couple of salmon.
It was overcast and choppy to start with and I am pretty notorious for getting sick so I was a bit queasy the first few hours. I lost a fish at the net right away but it wasn't long until our son hooked up the first time with a wild coho.
Soon was my brother-in-law's turn with a big keeper coho, Marvin's biggest of the season , he said.
Marvin introduced the fish to his little friend, Tonya Harding.
The fish box was starting to fill up.
By lunch we had caught about eight fish and three were keepers. There seemed to be plenty of wild coho and we also got a couple of Chinook jacks that were an inch shy of being legal. Everybody had caught two or three fish except my wife who had not even had a bite even though she was in the same seat using the spinner that had been the hot ticket the day before. I intended to hand off the rod on my second fish but, right away, I was tangled in my son's line and we had to do some fast choreography in the back of the boat to keep from loosing it. As we were eating lunch, Marvin and my wife were engaging in some banter about how to change her luck by biting the head off a herring. It went on and on but (who knew she would really do it!!) she jumped up and walked back to Marvin who handed her the herring and she chomped the head off and spit it out and flung the rest over the side. I couldn't believe my eyes. After some spitting and high-fiving Marvin, she returned to her seat. Now , I am not lying about this, after that she had her first fish on in less than one minute! We've got witnesses! It turned out to be a wild coho but, at least she scored her first salmon ever.
The afternoon wore on and we continued to hook up now and then. I lost count but I think we had about a dozen fish to the boat and ended up with five keepers and only lost two all day. Four were coho and my wife's second fish ,a Chinook in the mid-20's, the biggest fish of the day.
I hope we get to do this next year. Thanks Marvin for getting us into some great fishing and especially my wife's first couple of salmon.
