RiverChromeGS
11/17/2011 9:40:00 PMif you dont keep chum (i dont either) then who cares what color they are? lol the dark ones still fight.
natetreat
11/17/2011 10:49:00 PMThey turn quick. When they hit the fresh water after spending so much time in the estuary, they turn quick. A bright one pretty much came from the salt that day, or day before. Anyways if you are C&R a big chuim is fun enough right? They're beasts, even when they're turning.
djw0414
11/17/2011 10:52:00 PMThat is a lot of action in 1 hour and 15 minutes considering the commute and switching techniques 4 times. I have fished the Auburn area including the golf course the last two days and have not seen a chum roll or seen or heard of one caught. I did catch a small dark coho around Metzler's Park and saw some other coho roll but it has been dead by most accounts. Keep up the good work and I would love to run into you and see what you are doing differently.
jumpinjim
11/18/2011 9:09:00 AMdjw: I actually looked at the timestamps on the photos last night and saw that I got to auburn at 3pm. I left work at around 2:30 and fished for 20 minutes by the BECU building in Allentown, then about 10-15 minutes later I was down in auburn. still though I agree it was plenty of fish for that amount of time - no complaints there. I also moved from the golf course area down to that soccer field zone around 3:30. And I totally disagree about dark fish fighting just like bright fish though. I would say that some dark fish will still fight but most of the fish I hooked up with yesterday were lazy, a few head shakes, maybe a second or two of ripping the drag and then wind em in and thats on 10lb cxx line. I would say that the dark fish on the OP fight more like bright fish from the sound, but our dark fish seem to be on deaths door.
