Read a few reports last night and was on the Duwamish by 8:45 near Marginal & 113th, but because I'm a noob to salmon fishing I didn't really know what kind of lures to use or how fast to retrieve. I figured with a million or so fish racing up the river I would get one or two to hit 'something' The tide was low. As the tide started coming in jumpers started showing up and I figured I'd get a little beginners luck. No joy. Tried a pink lead-head feather jig under a bobber. Nothing. Switched to a good sized Buzz Bomb and fished with it for a couple of hours. Still no fish. I guess I don't know exactly how to work a buzz bomb, was just casting and doing a fairly slow and straighforward retrieve. (I read tonight that the 'proper' way to work a BB is to let is sink a second, then reel in five or six feet of line, and repeat) Met a guy going back to the truck who caught two pinks using a BB just like mine. Move upriver, switched to a pink plastic squid. No luck. By this time the tide is high. still a few jumpers here and there, some pretty big ones. Smoked a cigar, drank a Sierra Nevada, joked it up with my buddy and had a great time anyway. My day will come.


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