It happened again....

I was fishing on the Nehalem again this weekend. Saturday, to be exact........which happened to be Leah's birthday. I do have to give a mad shout out to her for actually letting her husband frolic in the woods on the day of her birth. I woke up at 4:30 to make it out to the river as early as possible. I made it to the first hole (Nehalem Falls) and it was still dark. There were already two pick-up trucks there (it was around 7:00). You have to wait for sunrise before you go fishing out there, so I had to wait for about 10 minutes before we all got our of our vehicles. Four guys in two beat up pick-ups, and me, in a Prius. They were probably thinking."what a sissy city boy!" You don't need a truck to fish in the mountains, but it is pretty scary driving, just ask my mom who accompanied me last year. I was fishing with eggs and sand shrimp. It was about 1 hour before the first fish was caught in the hole. The guys fishing directly to the left of me. A beautiful silver salmon, probably only a week out of the ocean. He caught it on a pink rooster tail spinner. Everyone else was fishing with salmon eggs, and that is what caught the second fish. A guy walked down from the road, and first cast, a big hen, 30+ pounds. FIRST CAST!!! He caught it just to the right of me! I then got my line snagged on a rock or branch, and lost my bobber. I switched to a silver and red Blue Fox spinner. No luck. I then thought, "that first guy caught his on a pink spinner". I did have a pink Blue Fox spinner, so I switched to that. 10 minutes later, a big buck Chinook salmon.36" long and around 30 pounds! It took about 10 minutes to land it. It rolled, jumped out of the water twice, and gave up quite a fight! I wound up giving it to my buddy Steve, who will enjoy it with his family. More than a vegetarian would.I love October...........