Since most of the straight and sound rivers are closing early this year, my fishin buddy and I made one last trip out to Sekiu. Arrived at 8:30 with 117 miles on my trip meter. It was in great shape, nice olive green color and the right amount of flow to keep the bait in some seams.

I was fishin bobber and eggs while he was bottom bouncing with corkie n eggs. Two different styles that work just the same if you ask me. Ten minutes in he gets a fish on but horses it a little too much and loses it.... about a few hours pass by as we made our way down to that old logging bridge in the clearing y'know? it's totally falling apart but there's a nice hole behind it. We threw there for over an hour with nothing to show for it. So back upstream we go and I finally get a strike off a rocky sandbar on the opposite side of the river, a gorgeous 5 - 6# native hen (pic). Got the pic and she stormed off with no revival necessary! 2 minutes later he nails another native a little bigger but we couldn't get the pic, gotta love the wild ones, they are powerful. We kept fishin but by 2pm, hadn't touched anything else so back home we go.

On the way we saw a nice heard of Elk a few miles out of town right where the Clallam River runs under hwy 112. I've never seen so many in once spot so it was very cool. We stopped at that "creek" I talked about in the last report but no luck there. Oh well... in a few weeks we'll head down the skook for late steel.

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