I went to the Skykomish above Monroe with a fly fishing buddy from Whidbey Island who is learning to fly fish and drift fish rivers. He split his time between fly fishing and swinging a dick nite on a spinning rig. I had seen several coho caught the previous day on eggs so I was loaded for bear with some nice eggs I had cured. I hooked and landed a bright buck around 6 pounds around 8 am and hooked a large coho around 10 or so pounds a little later that put up a great fight because I was casting quite a ways into the middle of the river when I hooked him. Got him in but he was just a little too red to keep that early in the day. I had dreams of limiting on chrome fish like the first one. Things shut off for most of the rest of the day and I switched over to a frog pattern dick nite and starting casting and swinging it as far as I could because most of the jumpers were on the other side of the river. About a half hour into that plan I hooked and landed a small rosy buck silver that was right on the Jack/Adult border line. I still haven't measured it but marked it as an adult. Missed a huge hit a little later but that was it for the day. 3 coho landed is a 5 star day for me but I wished my buddy had hit a fish. Sorry for the fuzzy cellphone pic....must have gotten the lens wet.

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