Fished the Kalama this morning with anglers Jake and Josh. ....
We started of the morning with a small wild steelhead that engulfed a pink worm fished under a float. Being a downstream fish one that's spawned out and heading back to the ocean also known as a kelt it wasn't much of a fighter, we brought it to the side of the boat and was released.
Later in the morning we switched to diver and bait. Coming into a long deep hole we let them out and began backing them down. About midway through the drift the right rod dipped, a typical salmon bite, but Josh was quick on the draw pulling the bait out of the fishes mouth. "That's a salmon" I said, we reeled in to find the bait stripped. Re baited we sent them out again and then the right rod buried, Jake set the hook "fish on"! A king it was, our first spring Chinook of the season. After a long battle the chrome beauty posed for a pic and was released. It goes against everything I believe in to turn fish like that lose, the kalama River is closed for kings . We fished the rest of the day with no more opportunities, if we're going to put any springers in the boat this season, I'll need to go elsewhere. Cowlitz River?
