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Took a trip down to the skook to see if the silvers were showing up yet. Parked across from the hatchery and saw quite a few people leaving and no one with a fish. We watched the river to see if anything was rolling and saw in some side pockets some wild firetrucks doing the mating dance, so we left them alone. We walked down from the hatchery to the corner hole again. We saw some rollers and after a little while I hooked into a nice buck. Brought him in and decided he wasnt "too" dark and he was hatchery, so I bonked him. Shortly after I hooked into a really nice king that put up a good fight. He was bronzed and beautiful but not super dark and no mold, a perfect specimen. I tried to quickly get a picture of him with my phone but he decided he would rather swim away than sit for a sec more. Then the sky opened up and dumped, so we walked back to the car to get our rain jackets. On the way back saw a couple of guys snagging the poor wild cohos that were trying to spawn. Frustrating. So we ended up walking farther down river and got to a nice wide flat spot where a couple of schools of coho were hanging out. My guy hooked into a few fish with bobber and eggs but didnt get them in. Then he hooked a bright coho jack that was hatchery so we decided to keep it too. I hooked into a nice hen that wasnt as dark as the other fish she was with so I thought she would be worth keeping. The water is still low but was a little dirty. As we finished up our evening fishing the wider part of the river it was still dumping rain, the march of the coho began. We saw soo many schools swim by. So I have a feeling closer to the hatchery is going to be really hot tomorrow. So I would say the Skookumchuck is definitely starting to heat up, but most of the fish I saw were fire trucks, and believe it or not the fish we kept were the brightest fish we saw. My husband used bobber and eggs the entire time, while I used a rocket red corkie. Fun fishing skook for coho, but it makes me excited for steelie season!
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Website: Northwest Fishing Expeditions