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Tuna- some things are precious

Every year I fish the beach we were married on for our anniversary. We also go out on a friend's boat.  We went, camped for 3 days, ate great food and  I caught 73 stripers, 2 pollock, 2 bonita, and a flounder, all on the fly.  After recent months this was as good a break as I could possibly ask.  Now it's time at the vise for steelhead flies. I probably have enough for 2 years or more, but you never have enough, ya know?  Good luck out there folks.  I'll add some pics. later.

Low reports indicate that it has slowed significantly in the past few days and fish are in spawn mode- some very soon after coming in.
Without a big push on its way the annual King run seems to have pretty much slowed- as is pretty normal for mid Oct.
Am coming up Mon through Wed and looking forward to some fish throughout the system.
Although not what had been predicted early on.
Seems not a great year but not a bad one either.
I'll gladly take it.

I heard there was a moderate push of fish through yesterday. With this rain and increased flow of almost 900 yesterday and 650 today I would say whatever is left is coming in now

I know a co worker is heading to the estuary tonight with his boat in hopes of trout. He is not a harpoon whaler .
Something I used to do often in late October many moons ago

From what I heard today there is little action in the estuary FWIW.

They are just looking to avoid people, sit in a boat and maybe catch a fish. Salmon are not the target.
Don't get no better than that imo.

It's days like these that bring back the fun.
I'm happy, my fire is burning indoors once again.
While doing some man cave cleaning I took a seat to reflect on the fun times.
Can't remember a time I wasn't with my grandfather ( Otto Indian) when there wasn't a white owl stogie and green d!ckie work clothes. Wore the same hunting except a red and black plaid woolrich light jacket.
Days like these.

On Tuesday in the afternoon a guy who looked like 'Joe Orvis'- all the fancy new gear and nice fly rig came across the river dragging a King.
As he passed me I looked at the fish and had to turn from the guy to suppress a laugh.
It was a ZOMBIE-about 1/3 white and the belly had big red areas where the skin was completely gone.
Sickening.
This pro was actually taking the fish home with him. 
To mount??
To eat himself ???
To feed his family ???
Have seen partly white fish dragged out before -but NOTHING this far gone.