Started at 112 and MAN were they thick! You couldn't make a cast without your line bumping a fish. although the were rather lockjaw, running the gauntlet through the thousand buzzbombs and giant corky yarn rigs. I'm still waiting for people to figure out that a Dick Nite wee nite fished properly will go miles to getting people actually hooking fish.

Fished for a while there then I went upstream to have some fun. Every third cast I had a fish on. Some of them were big humpbacked males that were dinosaur looking. I love it when they get that way. These guys are so much fun! You get them and they run in circles, zooming around, mouth open wide looking like a ridiculous parrot shaking their heads trying to throw the hook. They look so confused and silly, but they're still a lot of fun.

There was this family get together on the river at this great gravel bar as I waded upstream. They had been fishing there all morning. I asked how the fishing was going and they said "Bad." They hadn't hooked a fish all day. It was late afternoon by now. I walked up and asked if I could fish the hole with them, I went up at the top where there was plenty of space. Second cast, fish on. I got it in, and it was a silvery hen, so I bonked it. Mark it, three casts, fish on. It went on this way for the rest of the day. The kids started coming over my way and were crowding in on my spot, as if there weren't hundreds of fish at our feet the whole length. I was friendly had showed them my gear, what I was doing and how I was doing it. I tried to coach them on how to do it, and I was hoping it would pay off. Quitting time came and I packed up my gear and as I was cleaning my fish up, one of the kids hooked up on his first fish of the day! That was fun.

Just goes to show that it's not just the gear, what place you fish, but the experience of a good fishermen. Although these fish are very line shy. I'm down to using six or 8 pound test fluoro and tiny little weights because they have seen so much line and lead that we're not fooling anyone. The Green is clear right down to the sound, not like the puyallup. I did an expirement today, fished the first half with my usual braid and the last with floro and it was amazing. Just to confirm I ran both 12 pound and braid through a hole that was full of fish without any gear on it at all. The fish swam through it, dodged it and avoided it like the plague. When I ran 8 lbs through alone, and even with a tiny little swivel they just sat there. When I put a Dick Nite on, they snapped it up. Just an interesting observation.

Five stars for humpies! Eggs and fillets in their respective brines. Say what you will, but when you look down from the bridge and see fish shoulder to shoulder as far as you can see stretching across the entire bottom of the river, it just spells out fun, although it takes technique that can only come from time spent on the water, it's a good year to be a fishermen. Sorry, no pics, you've all seen humpies and I've got a ghetto phone because my nice one is probably somewhere on the bottom of the Stilly. I spent a night in the doghouse for that one and I'm not allowed another nice one unless I can keep this one in good shape.

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