well my boss is a lawyer and has to go to these cheesey seminars to keep his license. i basically sat in a room full of lawyers while a speaker said, "this is rebar...it goes in concrete, this is a conduit..." i guess they need to talk the talk before they sue the crap out of someone
so what, i got to go fishing!
went to the green river which is about 45 minutes southeast of seattle. i had absolutely no idea where to go or what to expect. i did a bunch of research which in this case was pointless. the satelite images from google earth need some serious updating. the green sufferred a serious flood a couple years ago and the course of the river has changed dramatically. there are no gravel bars left, it is now severely undercut, has several trees now growing in the middle of the flow and serious log jambs.
we had to do some serious climbing around just to find some fishable water. it smelt like death all around. so did the rental car after
after about a half hour of negotiating the logs we found some water holding several chums. some were at the end just swimming out their last days. there were a few pairs under the banks and along the edges creating the next generation. i spooked a pretty good sized pink out of a shallow riffle while searching for a new spot to cast from. all in all saw lots of fish but none had any interest in eating.
we later moved down stream a couple miles and it was more of the same. dead chums and seagulls all around. one guy i spoke with had caught a silver and i saw one chum caught just below me. saw a few small silvers still doing their thing. this was the spot just above the bridge.
right below us was a creek which runs by a hatchery. another person i talked to mentioned the fish were stacked at the creek mouth so we headed down. it wasn't thermolito but there were a lot of people. so we headed back to downtown.
i want to thank ed k. for mentioning kells. if you're ever in seattle check it out. they have great chicken with bacon sauce!!!
its even better with a few pints. its right by the waterfront in an alley off 1st street
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