Beach Journal October 25 2018

Beach Journal October 25 2018 With the heavy rain that occurred four day ago we knew the beaches would not be very active. Also we are nearing the end of the season. Sometime we can fish till mid November but if heavy rains occur and the rivers and stream get high most salmon shoot up. Today we could not leave till 11am so we ventured to a local area . As we approached there is lots of anglers vehicles but some are already getting ready to leave. That must have been the morning shift hahaha. We could see salmon jumping in front of five fly anglers. No activity anywhere else. I decided to do a walk taking the binoculars with me. As I turn the corner I scan south and just as I brought the binoculars to my eyes I caught a glimpse of a salmon in mid jump. Not sure if I was imaging it I continued to scan and saw three more salmon jump. I look around five anglers leaving with the other five anglers fishing their own school. No one sees them. Slowly going back to the Jeep trying not to make any attention to my self and I tell the others to gear up and we are doing a good long walk.When we arrived I noticed two fly anglers sitting on a log watching the salmon. The salmon was out of reach for them. They would have to be very deep wading. I guess they were waiting for them to come in to there reach. But they were not out of reach for our ultra light gear. Feeling a little guilty (just a little) I mentioned to the others lets move slightly past them. I couldn’t believe the amount of salmon still but knowing often there were lockjaws. We could see chum salmon among them. Using croc spoons 3/8 ounce gold hammered with an orange stripe we were able to get three of them. No other lure we tried would work after that. To bad I lost the More- Silda lure (to a large buck coho the other day) as I think I would have caught a few more. Again it all in the timing I guess.Winds were very strong coming from the south; waves high, very cold 3 degrees. The tide was dropping but it was a high low so about a 10 foot low. To review the gear we are using. We use thirteen-foot rod designed for ultra lite gear but with the backbone to handle heaving fish. So the rod line weights is 10 – 20 pound, lure weights ¼- one once. We use 8-pound line for our main line and 12 pound 4 feet fluorocarbon as our leader. Using this line we often will only get one to three uses out it then we replace it. It all depends if we are using spinners and they twist the line a lot. I replace only the top third of the spool of line.