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Today makes the end of the buoy 10 to Tongue Point chinook fishery. It was a fair year with some days being very productive and some not. One the good side it was a great weather year, not a lot of rain to deal with. The ocean seemed to be the hot spot for consistent catching, of course that is not part of the buoy 10 area but it is close. The Ilwaco, Hammond, Warrenton Astoria had a larger flood of people this year. I believe that was due to the reported prediction of some 1.6 million chinook that were suppose to be here for the buoy 10 fishery. Last time I looked, yesterday the count over Bonneville was more like 98,000. We had fun taking family and friends out fishing and were able to have a few fish time salmon catches for people on the boat. I was able to take 5 of my grandkids out to fish and both of my sons. My life long fishing partner, Mrs. Irishrover, caught her share of fish.
This year we tried something a little different and it worked great. On a whim I tried trolling a pink hoochie with a small spinner blade just above it. The fish loved it and soon a few more boat here at the marina gave it a try with very good success. I use them all the time in the ocean but had not tried that in the river. For the river it is spinners, herring or anchovies. Now hoochies get added to the list.
This year again as with the large crowd of people there was a massive amount of boats. It's a good thing that it is a very large river so it could accommodate the large influx. Now September is upon us and we have a three coho limit, also it's time to drag out the crab potsand go after some bottom fish.
I posted four pictures. One came out upside down the rest were on their side. I'll work on that later.
This year we tried something a little different and it worked great. On a whim I tried trolling a pink hoochie with a small spinner blade just above it. The fish loved it and soon a few more boat here at the marina gave it a try with very good success. I use them all the time in the ocean but had not tried that in the river. For the river it is spinners, herring or anchovies. Now hoochies get added to the list.
This year again as with the large crowd of people there was a massive amount of boats. It's a good thing that it is a very large river so it could accommodate the large influx. Now September is upon us and we have a three coho limit, also it's time to drag out the crab potsand go after some bottom fish.
I posted four pictures. One came out upside down the rest were on their side. I'll work on that later.
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