Show Us Your Humpies !!!

@Gary Knowels (who is a 5th cousin thrice removed to Beyoncé Knowles) and I had a fun time hunting for biters this morning. There was no shortage of fish, but I was antsy and moved us around a lot searching for aggressive ones. I’m not sure we really found those and we may have done better to stay in one area, but we still managed to get 5 to the boat on flies. Gary had a teeny little fly with bead chain eyes on and was hooking up so I also switched to a very small and lighter fly and then I also got some hookups.

I gave Gary the full tour of the lower river and even a bit of the bay (which was pretty dead btw); we didn’t really get up to South Park.

The fishing was challenging and the homemade sandwich (courtesy of my guest, thank you) was bangin’. We saw Boot and Jack a couple times and so I got in my once every two years in person wave to Boot 😉
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Wadin' Boot said:
Follow up album....
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I tried to get AI to generate a 7 fingered child but that apparently is crossing a line. I was thinking "Concrete Osprey" could be a good follow up album but "Acolyte" looked more metal in the font and "Apocalypse" was taking it too far plus it ate up too much font space. I kind of like thinking that all pulled shifts at Nucor at one time or another, and always hung out at a share house on SW Yancy. Plus, they were actually fucking legit good...and the used to be friends with Mudhoney before they "sold out..."
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Yep, here is the old place where “Acolyte”was recorded. They say if you leave a half pack of camel shorts on the windowsill and listen closely, through the din of marine traffic, rusty train brakes and shrieking gulls, you can still hear the Kramers feeding back. In fact you can hear those sounds in the songwriting, too.

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If you play it backwards you can hear them say 'I'd rather be a coho'
 
Matt B said:
@Gary Knowels (who is a 5th cousin thrice removed to Beyoncé Knowles) and I had a fun time hunting for biters this morning. There was no shortage of fish, but I was antsy and moved us around a lot searching for aggressive ones. I’m not sure we really found those and we may have done better to stay in one area, but we still managed to get 5 to the boat on flies. Gary had a teeny little fly with bead chain eyes on and was hooking up so I also switched to a very small and lighter fly and then I also got some hookups.

I gave Gary the full tour of the lower river and even a bit of the bay (which was pretty dead btw); we didn’t really get up to South Park.

The fishing was challenging and the homemade sandwich (courtesy of my guest, thank you) was bangin’. We saw Boot and Jack a couple times and so I got in my once every two years in person wave to Boot 😉
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Apparently @Matt B is running a pro bono humpy guide service these days and take anyone.
What a fun morning! I landed my first pink and played a few good games of tug-o-war. I his running a pro bonkad no idea what the standard operating procedure is for pinks, I just tied on something small pink and sparse and it worked. It was kind of like a crazy Charlie with a silver body and neon pink top.
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Pink salmon cakes are on the menu tonight.
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A little few and far between but we got into a handful today. It seemed to be about 50/50 if a pod had biters in it. We found one aggressive school that we followed around for a while hooking up pretty consistently until we lost the school.

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HauntedByWaters said:
I’m seeing humps starting to grow on some of these fish! We are rapidly approaching the climax of Slimerfest 2025. Time sure does fly when you are having fun.
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So true. I feel like in the Duwamish it may have been a week ago when I was tuna fishing. All good though, I certainly got my licks in.

It would be neat if we were allowed to go CnR a few in one or more of the S rivers of central sound before they fully zombify.
 
The predators are really keyed in on the biomass now! Those humpies gotta get to making new little baby humpies before they get got, based on all the wounds I am seeing (not to mention fish being eaten by birds and mammals). It seems like 1 out of every 3 or 4 fish I am catching or seeing on here has had a near miss.
 
Recently hit the Snohomish and had better luck than average - though admittedly most were caught on spinners. As the rower/netter, I didn't get any photos.
 
Low quality photo but I think this is the darkest fish yet on here. Fished in walking distance of the saltwater and to my surprise, most of the fish were pretty colored already. I caught a bunch but none of which I’d deem fresh enough to take home.

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Humpies are taking over the world !!!!
Every other year at a time....
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Stonedfish said:
Scotland and Norway must have a lot of concrete plants.
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There's a Kevin Costner movie about this, they re-wrote the script though, swapped out the Pink Salmon and concrete plant part for an old-timey Baseball metaphor given movies about Concrete Plants don't really sell seats. The take home message was "If you build it they will come..."

(what a dumb long setup for a lousy joke, apologies PNWFF-ers)
 
Wow, pink salmon have expanded their populations more than I realized. Other than the example of the freshwater mussels being impacted by invasive pink salmon, I was thinking the presence of pinks might be beneficial in terms of increasing the nutrient supply in northern streams, the way sockeye do for Alaska's Bristol Bay rivers. The ecological downside for Atlantic salmon, more than native brown trout I expect, is the toll the pink salmon have on the forage base in the White and Barents Sea. They may decrease forage for Atlantic salmon the way pinks and chums apparently affect the forage supply of north Pacific salmon and steelhead.
 
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