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Snohomish River Report
Snohomish County, WA

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08/31/2011
Casting
Pink Salmon
Pink
Other
Morning
09/01/2011
4
1552

This was technically my second time fishing for Salmon but my first time going for the Pinks. My buddy and I got to the Snohomish River about 6:45 about 1 mile south of the Hwy 9 Bridge. My buddy caught his first pink on his 3rd cast using a jig with a pink plastic skirt. There were two guys near us using Pink Buzz Bombs and were just killing it. Another fisherman showed up and fished next to us and he too started killing it with Buzz Bombs. We didn’t have any Buzz Bombs ourselves. But the Guy who showed up next to us was the coolest guy he sold both me and my buddy a couple Buzz Bombs for a couple of bucks and what do you know we started catching and getting bites too. This guy gave us pointers and explained things about river fishing we didn’t know and we both did real well after that. I ended up with two fish, Lost several that jumped off the hook. I lost a huge one right in front of my face. We were fishing from shore and I was waist deep in my waders and this fish must have been an 8-9 pound Buck (He had a huge hump). I was working him trying to tire him out and almost had him close enough to drag to shore or net put him in a net when he turned and started to run again and SNAP goes my line. I was using 8 pound Test.... I quickly switched to 10 pound but that was my only Buzz Bomb. I ended up with my two pinks my buddy walked away with 3. But there were people limiting all around us, in boats and from shore. By the time I left at 11:30 the tide had gone way down and the bank was getting packed. All in all a great day and now I’m hooked on pinks and can’t wait to go do it again. Didnt get a pic of both of my fish but a one pic I took at home of one I caught and one pic of my buddy with the first one he caught.


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gdrees
9/1/2011 10:51:00 AM
Sounds like a good time! I did not know buzz bombs worked in rivers, but thinking on it, why not?. What size were the ones you used?
bothellfisher
9/1/2011 11:00:00 AM
@ gdrees Yeah they worked great... It was either a 2 in. or 2 1/2 in. Hot Pink Buzz Bomb with a rubber grommet between it and the Hook. I was also using Red Gamakatsu size 8 barbed hook that I pinched the Barb off.
BARCHASER10
9/1/2011 3:58:00 PM
Two of us got our limit of 8 this morning and C&R another 6-7. In my boat on the Sno around the seaplane area. 3 of us got 12 on Tuesday and some of those were on pink buzz bombs. Tried buzz bombs but this morning they wanted 1/4 oz pink jigs with a little white and some tinsel on them.
oneshot
9/1/2011 4:35:00 PM
Stretch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
bothellfisher
9/2/2011 8:26:00 AM
@ Oneshot... Do you know Stretch?
oneshot
9/6/2011 12:48:00 PM
@ Bothellfisher

no he just looks like his name is probably stretch...
bothellfisher
9/6/2011 1:59:00 PM
Whatever onshot... I took a look at your website and I know you and know you know Stretch too... How ya doing?
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