Fishing with Cliff

So we got a comment on our video Steelhead Trout Fishing on the Skykomish recently asking about fishing for Pink Salmon.  We were amazed since usually what we are getting is insults!  FishingGuy101 asks:

Cool i went fishing today for 10 hours wading for pink salmon using buzz bombs,pink spoons,pink squids,and pink jigs but had no luck any tips?also we are heading snohomish river and tips there

I am going to guess that you were fishing the salt for them and I am thinking they are pretty well up and out of the Sound and on their way up the rivers by now.  That would explain why you didn’t pick anything up.  Either that or you fish like we do, horribly.

On what to use, the same type of things you would be using in the salt water works in the rivers, just downsize a bit.  Drifting a pink jig works well, just watch for the bite on the drop and work it slow.  Heading for the rivers, I would grab a fist full of pink spoons in different weights for use in fast or slow water.

The big question for me is if you can find some shoreline without people on it!

The weather here in the Northwest is great for growing things.  Apparently a little too great!  Here is another non-native plant that is causing trouble and a group that is working to keep it from ruining watersheds.

The Stilly-Snohomish Fisheries Enhancement Task Force is getting almost a quarter of a million dollars to fight this highly invasive plant that you have to spray to kill because cutting it down or pulling it up just makes it mad.  Sounds like some Blackberries I know of.

This SeattlePI Article has more info on what is going on, but these invasive plants really suck!