Last week I took a young man and his son out in my boat on the Skagit river to fish for Pink Salmon.
Neither one of them had ever caught a salmon before, so I had a ball teaching them.
I rigged their rods up with gear exactly like mine, but my rod was the hot one in the boat. I caught 3 Chinook salmon a 6 pound Jack, a 17 1/2 pound and a 27 pound king. Those three had to be released immediately because the Chinook season has already closed on the Skagit.
Then my rod hooked 11 Pink salmon, one after another. I would drop it back behind the boat, get a strike, set the hooks and then hand it off to either the boy or his Dad.
Finally, the Dad hooked a nice chrome bright Pink and got it back into the net and our Legal limit of 4 fish per angler was met.
Here are some photos of us and one stringer of fish that we caught:
Thomas and I are holding their stringer of fish:
Here's Dan and Thomas holding their stringer of Pinks:
Here's Dan and I:
When I got home I took a photo of my stringer hanging from the side of my boat:
All in all it was a pretty nice day on the river and it was fun teaching two new fishermen how to catch fish!
Dick
