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I had a couple hours unaccounted for and with the rivers being closed I hit the “Wall”. Arriving around 12:30 I had figured that all fishermen were Seahawks fans and I would have the place to myself, wrong… There was a crowd but it wasn’t too bad so I rigged up and got to work. Fishing the top of the “wall drift” on a high tide my first drift went bendo but the fish got mixed up with my downstream buddies gear and I lost the fish. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted and I should have learned a lesson; it just happened that I was running an 8# top shot (complements of a recent coho trip) on my braid and I lost many fish while I was there. I started out fishing my standard chum set-up, a small black and green corky, purple yarn on a 3’ leader but with the low stream flow I quickly went to just yarn. I was there for a few hours, maybe 3 and aside from re-tie time was hooked up the whole time. I probably hooked 15 or 16 fish and punched 2 hens and one large buck. I don’t know if it is my technique or the fact that I run smaller hooks but of all the fish that I hooked only two were hooked outside the mouth and even then they were hooked forward of the gill plates. I did see many fish caught that were hooked in the motor but generally people dropped those fish in the tube for an express trip to the holding pond.
As fun as my brief fishing vacation was it was not without incident. I had just run a fish down to the stairs, dropped it in the tube and walked back to where my fish were to gather things up and head home. My buck was laying there but the two hens were nowhere to be found. Someone had walked off with just my hens. Normally a non-issue but I was hoping to put up a bunch of eggs. My fishing trips this year have been a blast but they have been limited. Oh well the time out was enjoyed and I’ll be back. In parting; even when crowed this fishery works and is a blast, nothing like pulling on a big dog with light gear. If everyone pays attention, uses the same basic technique, is respectful and works together it goes smoooothly and is fun for all.
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