This is actually a secret river report. I know without a location it is a story not a report but here goes.
I went with a buddy on a guided fishing trip on Thursday which started out very slow in the first location which has always been a solid producer. We thought we would really be working for our fish which is fine so we we left the first location and started down the river when the guide said "Hey, let's try a couple casts into this little back eddy before we push on". We moved closer to a little cove with a swirl that was no more than 10 yards long. Maybe good for a fish or two. We figure out the current and start twitching our jigs under the rock wall and bang, double! Wow!! He moves us over to the other side of the river to land them and moved back over to the cove. Two more casts and bang, double. Are you kidding me? Guide moves us over to the other side, lands the fish and back to what we are now calling the Hot Tub. Two more casts, bang, double. All the fish were 10 to 15 pound coho with a mix of native and hatchery and we were starting to fill our limits of hatchery fish. Several more trips to the hot tub produced our limits and we ended up with six double hook-ups and a few singles which somehow seemed disappointing. We normally wouldn't keep our last hatchery fish this early in the day because we wouldn't want to quit fishing but we were totally satisfied with all the line-screaming brutes we had fought and the last hatchery fish was a bright 15 pounder so we bonked it and rowed the last six miles off the river. The most memorable hour of fishing I have ever been a part of. Tight lines!


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