There are very few days when the fish just can’t keep off the hook. However, this day would turn out to be the stuff that fishing legends are made of. It was nothing new to me and the crew to show up at the river right at the crack of dawn just as the gray sky began to emit light. The early bit in the Big Quil can be one the the best in the state when the fish are running. It’s not uncommon to limit out within a couple hours. However when the bite dies down then you have to put your work in.
Today was different, it was like the fishing gods had awakened and literally with every cast it was fish on! I’d pitch my double bead stack a bit upstream and let it drift. Every single time before my rig could hit bottom, whammy! it got nailed and the fight was on. Even better these fish were huge. We literally walked out with the biggest Coho caught in the hole that day. The best part was that they were all yarded out by yours truly while fishing our Stone Cold Beads.
What made it so phenomenal was that literally every time I plunked in it was fish on. Literally every cast. Everyone else I was fishing with just looking at me in disbelief. No matter what I did it was one after the other until the bite died off. I went three for four of my limit, released four small one and lost two big ones that shook the hook. Interestingly enough the three fish I caught today amounted to more meat than any of the other days I had fished before.
This was defiantly one of my best days one the river. Not often you can keep throwing small ones back and still catch more fish. The stones were hot! hot! on this fishing trip.