Tired of the hit and miss fishing at the Duwamish/Green, I trekked up to the wallace at the hatchery for some relaxing fishing action. within the first half hour I caught a nice bootylicious King on a peach corky and some eggs! Gave up a decent fight and was difficult to manage as the river is really high so no beach to work from. Cut the line and released him unharmed.

Next fish I hooked into was a BIG coho, bright silver and angry! Had him on for ten minutes but I could not get this fish to turn. He went up and down the hole six times, did a couple jumps, which was scary, and then shot off downstream, which was scary because I had to walk out into the vicious current up to my waist just to keep my line out of the trees. He was almost to the corner with about 100 feet of line out and he was still running and I knee I had to turn him or he was gone. So I thumbed my spool just a titch which seemed to slow him down, but then he gave one last tug and snapped my ten pound test leader.

I promptly took a smoke break, and drove to the gear shop and bought myself some 15 pound test leader. Came back for another go for a couple more hours and caught myself a nice 3 pound jack silver. Funny thing is they look so much like kings that I was worried and went to ask the guy down at the next hole if it was a king or coho, was pretty sure it was a silver, but not quite. At the end, we washed the blood out it's mouth from the hook and we decided that it was indeed a silver. A little embarressing, but better safe than sorry. I was almost certain that it was a coho, but I've never caught one that small, and they are really difficult to tell apart when they're little. Yea, I was a little embarressed, but the guy was real nice and I showed him how I was fishing. Dudes that work at the hatchery were really swell and gve me the DL on how and where to fish the river, as it was my first time out. On the way home I stopped at the Sultan to catch some whitefish and check out the mouth. No fish on the sky today. I fished at first light till 10 am or so.