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With all the rain we've been having and hearing countinous good news for the skokomish. I took a look at the 10 day forcast last week and requested a weekday off. Praying that the river height and CFPS would drop. Had Wednesday off. woke up this morning and rechecked the gauges. height was around 13.5 and river was flowing around 1160 cfps. Seeing that the forecast was good and no rain in sight til 11am. Got my gear loaded up, picked up my cousin and a member of this site and we headed out.
Got to the purdy creek fork and started to attempt crossing. Holy F%#* water was above my belly. My cousing and I are 6 foot. Luckily that area has no current, otherwise we would've been screwed. My friend on the otherhand was a little shorter so he basically had to tip toe across holding onto the log for support. started walking up to the shallows, followed to shore until we reach an area that look like there would be fish holding. Where everywhere was flowing pretty fast, there was a back eddy behind some fallen trees that had some slack water. Fishing was pretty consistent. We used jigs and free drifted eggs. I ended up with my limit of bright cohos off of eggs in about 2 1/2 hours, giving up a couple of times in between twitching jigs for chums. hooked onto a handful of semi bright chums. My cousin landed 2 coho and kept one bright chum and my friend ended up with 2 cohos and kept 0 chums. Left the river around 1030 and got back to the crossing and it seemed if the river has risen a bit. I basically had to hold my waders up to prevent any water from getting in. there were about 10 other fisherman who braved the crossing and got to the area where we were fishing. Not in the same hole but all around in the many other holes. Seen 3 other coho caught around me and a bunch of decent looking chums.
while I was packing up I found a large treble hook with pencil lead wrapped around it.
Now onto to the tiring ordeal of cleaning your waders, prepping your fish, and cleaning off your gear.
Get Some!
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