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It was totally awesome today out on the Skokomish river in Union. We fished about a mile up from Hunter Farms up the E. Purdy Cutoff Road.
I tried the entire gamut of lures, jigs, spinners, corkies, colors w/out any success, but I'm standing there watching this older fella catch a chum literally on EVERY cast!! It was uncanny...almost divine or supernatural (what do you expect on Halloween, after all?).
I asked him what he was using - he was totally helpful and said "just use some red yarn and about 6-8 feet of leader... you're basically flossing them but it's all about knowing how it feels". I set one up exactly like he said and first cast a big buck nailed my yarn! I couldn't believe it!! It actually F'ing worked! LOL. So a small corky or a couple beads and a hook or just yarn and a hook is all you need.
The second way to do it is a little further upstream there is a big pool. Float a puffy marabou jig (green or pink) under a bobber w/a small piece of shrimp. When it's bobber down, yank hard.
The chum are huge and fight like hell. It's arm-tiring fun. I brought home 60 lbs in fish (about 40 lbs in fillets) and just finished wrapping/freezing them. 3 orange and 1 pale but still firm and smokable. I'm totally exhausted and can't wait for bed so I can get up at 5am and go again in the morning!
Seriously - take the day off and have some fun. It was a total blast!!
PS - my camera died before I got any pics. My friend Deb took some w/her I-Phone but I have to wait for them to upload them to the Fishing Meetup page. They'll be there when I get them.
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