got a coupl of weeks of work in Washington so I have the good luck of having freinds here to go drift fishing on the skycomish river  

Nice one

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 Nice steely Randy! I did'nt recognize you sideways? Quite the fight huh? Too bad it was a native, they're even harder to release sometimes.

 I just caught a couple on Sunday, Not far from your guy's yard, its a hole called "Blue Stilly" some people call it "Big Rock". If you turn north at the fire station across from the smoke shop on the hiway that goes into Arlinton, follow it to the end and there's a parking lot. Fish the shallows, up river from the big rock. They are holding in there right now!  

There that's better, Now you look a little more familiar. HA,Ha,ha... 

Is it a law that you guys have to release these fish?  Dont know about the rules up where you are.  Here in Fl.  i'm known as a MEAT fisherman.

You see the "adipose fin" just in front of his right hand? That means it's a native and needs to be released where he was fishing. Hatchery fish have this fin clipped for identification purposes. Some rivers you can keep them, some rivers you cant. Same thing goes for different species as well.

at home we can keep are salmon. they have to be longer then 7"