Went again the other day and did pretty well, and pulled up a nice panter martin, actually a large and small one. We went catfishing and it was a bust, grabbed our salmon gear and headed to the trailhead and sat there for almost an hour waiting for the sun to begin to show.
The salmon were THICK! 3-5 jumping at any given time, trout jumping all over too. I had on a nice one within a couple casts, then lost it when my line broke. Landed a nice one with good coloring... and roe
![Gap :gap:](https://board.marlincrawler.com/Smileys/marlin/gap.gif)
and had tons of line bumps and/or hits. Switched to something I'd never tried before but had pulled up on broken lines and started getting frequent hits! I now have a new, cheaper secret weapon
We hooked some douches across the river who kept blatantly casting over our lines, then shortly before we were going to leave I hooked a hog. Longest fight I've had with a salmon in a while too! Big old male, kinda ugly, but had great looking meat!