Muff pot fixins are in!

[PowderMiner]

Time to stock the freezer with smoked humpy for the sled season. Made 30 casts with a pink spoon this morning at sunrise in Snohomish, at low tide got four fish (3 in the first 10 casts)! Lost the first 6 yesterday before limiting in less than 2 hours.

I wonder if I can get a salmon card for my 10-day-old little girl, Hailey?

I'll be in the market for a little pink sled, I guess maybe in a few years.

 

[christian]

its a fun fishery!!!

better read the regs if you want to fill the freezer.....

2 salmon + 2 additional pinks

 

[Treemagnet]

2 salmon + 2 additional pinks = 4 Humpies

 

[Flakey]

+1 treemagnet!


Tight lines Humpie fans!

 

[Flakey]

Powderminer, didn't you bleed and gut those humps right away????

 

[PowderMiner]

Flakey - I was shown a long time ago, and probably not the best way, to pull a gill on each side and let them flop in the grass or live well for a few minuets then throw them in the cooler with ice? Another old Lopez Island trick is to wrap them whole (guts, head and tail) in several layers of wetted news paper and stack them like cord wood in the freezer if you need to preserve them for a few weeks to be smoked since my smoker is on the other side of the state until Labor Day.

I took a nice extra bright female and BBQed it, turned out good. While filleting I did have to chase a little blood out of the veins down at the bottom of the rib bones. I always pack a cooler with ice, especially for humpies.

 

[ArcticBoy]

Crap they are all ready in??? Time to get in the river.

 

[Flakey]

Stilly opener is tuesday. Maybe I'll see you Arlington boys at the river.


My father in law got a nice bright 3.5lber out of the snoho tonight.

I always gut the gills, rinse in the river untill its bled good, then gut(take the guts with you in a bag) and put on ice. I was tought this is really important with humpies.

 

[christian]

Flakey - I was shown a long time ago, and probably not the best way, to pull a gill on each side and let them flop in the grass or live well for a few minuets then throw them in the cooler with ice? Another old Lopez Island trick is to wrap them whole (guts, head and tail) in several layers of wetted news paper and stack them like cord wood in the freezer if you need to preserve them for a few weeks to be smoked since my smoker is on the other side of the state until Labor Day.

I took a nice extra bright female and BBQed it, turned out good. While filleting I did have to chase a little blood out of the veins down at the bottom of the rib bones. I always pack a cooler with ice, especially for humpies.

humpies are very soft fish and they bruise real easy....handle them like they are frigile antiques....or they will bruise....making them even softer

best way is one small knock over the head, then cut both gills, right on ice, gut within 30 minutes and remove the blood line then right back on ice.

Fresh river caught bucks(males) are prefered by most as the oil continent is higher.


Grab your lightest rod and go have some fun

 

[justadude]

How long are they going to be running?

 

[justadude]

When I 1st saw the pic I thought you were some kind of sicko!! Smoking an infant!!! Yikes!!!

Time to stock the freezer with smoked humpy for the sled season. Made 30 casts with a pink spoon this morning at sunrise in Snohomish, at low tide got four fish (3 in the first 10 casts)! Lost the first 6 yesterday before limiting in less than 2 hours.

I wonder if I can get a salmon card for my 10-day-old little girl, Hailey?

I'll be in the market for a little pink sled, I guess maybe in a few years.

 

[PowderMiner]

10 in the freezer and 2 BBQed! Bite was slower today. I gave my third fish to an out-of-towner that could not land one, and then I got the bad luck and lost 4 in a row!

We are very sleep deprived right now; I better make sure the baby is nowhere nearby when I smoke the fish! I was hallucinating the other night and set the cell phone alarm and came-to realizing I was trying to flip the clock-radio open to stop the alarm!

 

[Flakey]

So, where are you fishin? What's been working for you? Just pink spoons?

 

[PowderMiner]

I am fishing off the shore at Fields Riffle, just West of Snohomish on Lowell Road, Snohomish County Parks property with wood fencing. You have to park on the road, or there is some parking across the road. It is a ¼ mile hike to the river and it is helpful to have waders, but if the fish are thick and you have a decent cast, not necessary.

The fishing has slowed a bit this morning only caught 3, I’d take my boat, but the launches will be very busy and haven’t need to take a boat ride yet!

I was swearing by a Mepps Cyclops with an “S”, pink with black herring-bone pattern and red eye on one side, brass on the other, I use the 12 gram size. I have seen guys catching them on the narrow “Humpy Killer” pink spoon with white on the back. Several guys have had luck with small soft jigs. The last two days I have used a 2 ½” Buzz Bomb (pink) allowing me to cast ¾ across the river. Also heard that some people were having luck with pink korkies. I think smaller spoons like Dick Nights work well, but I’d rather use a bigger hook to try and get a better hook set, I have, and watched a lot of guys pull hooks out, especially right at the point of landing the fish. I try and fight the fish with my drag set fairly light, and work them side to side rather than strait to me then when they are tired pull them onto the bank.

The best time for me has been in the morning just as the tide starts to return, but with patience and a lot of casts fish can be caught all day. The evening high tide is also productive at this location, but a little more crowded with less space to fish.

If in a boat the fish are holding more to the north shore near Snohomish, I’d anchor or drift the middle and cast toward the shore like I was bass fishing. If fishing from the shore cast strait out and make a slow to medium retrieval (jig your pole tip a little if using jigs or buzz bombs)(I like the sideways “pull” rather than the vertical “jig” feels like I get a more positive hook set?), be aware that there are many snags on the bottom so you have to adjust you retrieval/jig motion to stay above the sticks and logs.

I am hoping that the rain comes tonight to dissuade some of the weekend competition and encourage another big push of fish.

Good Luck!!

Garage freezer filling up!

Fillets ready to BBQ

 

[Flakey]

Nice report !

Thanks for the info!


I'm going to try it again this weekend. Not sure if i'll go snohomish or skagit.
Tight lines!

 

[augerin]

Nice, I grew up on the sodomish......I mean Snohomish river.

 

[christian]

Nice report !

Thanks for the info!


I'm going to try it again this weekend. Not sure if i'll go snohomish or skagit.
Tight lines!

Any of PowderMiner suggestions will produce, just think pink for pinks.



my three most effective ways
(depending location and who gonna fight the fish)

my favorite is dick nites for several reasons,
1 will hook the first silver
2 almost always in the corner of the mouth(usually produce a better fight)
3 amost never foul hook(but long leaders tend to occasionally floss)
4 and when fished right usually out fishes anything on the snoho system that I have seen
I do not recommend changing the hook on the dick nites though...you will loose more set ups and the action changes...so if you dont know the small things on how to make them work, I would suggest fishing them out of the box...


Can't go wrong with the generick jig with a pink hoothie set up.
Gets the job done PERIOD, dont use high end jigs,,,the cheapo's hooks will straight out so you can easily recover your gear when you stick it in the sunken log....

For my kids I use sand shrimp(single 1/0 octopus pink spin'n glo, divers/plunk it....it all works just keep it off the bottom from the other fish like bullheads) run the sand shrimp straight like your fishin for steelhead. This way you may get to catch-n-release a real salmon or even bunk a late summer. With bait they usually swallow the hook and kids will land them...as most other technics you will loose quite few fish since their mouth are so soft...


My 1141's are waiting for some...action

 

[Flakey]

Picked up some goodies at the warehouse today.

Couple #1 dick nites, some line, new rod for the wife(she always gets the good stuff).

Stilly opener tomorrow! I'll be leaving work early...

 

[PowderMiner]

Stilly Opener

How did you guys do? Sounds like Port Susan was boiling this weekend. Looks like rain this weekend, not sure if the fish will push into the rain or wait until early next week for the big push with the bump in water level.

 

[Flakey]

Stilly is slow.


At least for me, I tried yesterday and today for a couple hours. Threw everything in my box and not a bite. Buddy of mine got one small one. Nice and fresh, but small. They are definately rolling but I think it's still early. Or maybe the fish just know it's me at the end of the line and know not to bite.