College is in full swing now, but all the classes and homework and distractions can't take me off of the water for too long. That's just not how I work.

The awesome social aspect of college has made me plenty of new fishing buddies as well. I haven't gotten to taking any of them out on the water yet, but its all in the works. A surprising amount of them are girls too. Can't go wrong there......

The Nooksack river is the most accessible river to me at the moment; busses from Bham can take me within half a mile of great looking water.

The Nooksack River Coho run is still not in full swing; not many fish have moved upriver yet with the lack of rain. That will soon change with an entire week of wettish weather heading our way, so hopefully the coho will follow the rains and make their way into the river as October presses on.

I fished for around 4 hours on Saturday; from about 3:30-7:20 PM.... I managed to hook one 4ish pound coho on a most secret of jigs... he ran straight at me and leapt in the air, spitting the hook at my feet. Yet another lost coho to add to my tally. Coming in on this year, I'd only ever lost one Coho ever..... now I've lost five in a row. Oh well, persistence will (hopefully) pay off at some point. I saw no rollers and nobody else caught any fish. I managed to hook two small native rainbows as well, and I was able to land both of them without a hitch on barbless tackle.

Luckily they make smaller fish so guys like me can actually catch something.

Its also killing me seeing the reports on the Snoho and Sky, my native river system.... they're pretty much clogged with fish right now.

Fish hard and fish well, keep that line tight and clean up after yourself.

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