hey guys we just put it to high bridge on the snow quality river it's just outside downtown monroe couple of miles and we've made our way down the snow quality river just past the confluence now the confluence on this river is where the sky comin and piece a rolling jump and i can see him there everywhere oh man they're everywhere we've got over two million fish coming into the river this year and we've got a moon up past year were right under below the confluence and these fish are going to be moving past us on either side coming up snow call me and we're going to get after him with we're going to start with some digs here in the morning the sun's coming out they'll see the big profile of them and they're really aggressive fish so they'll chase him down and we'll get some hook ups and let's do it all right she's been in the river a couple of days you can see she doesn't have any sea lice on so she's probably been in here she hasn't she's still pretty bright not too bad not too dark so yeah you can deceive you can still see all over scales and that there's a good seam up here we can work on a lot of times the user through here right through here you can kind of seen it all come down and work its way down here a lot of times these coal hole come up here in the work their way up here and wait for the rain in the water break from school and just grew up around the water i always wanted to be on the water in the water so how to do with fish i was in there was talk about the roger using right now well scott we're using the so we're having these fish they don't have the fat stores that a lot of the other salmon species have and it takes them a while to catch their breath again oxygenated water going over their gills let him catch their breath and when they're ready they'll give a kick and swim  we head back to western washington to the home river to meet up with mike schmidt of west coast outfitters but this time in search of the mighty king chinook salmon hey guys welcome to northwest waters t v i'm scott your host now we're standing along the shores of the whole river this week where just a couple of days ago we got a chance to catch up with one of western washington's premier fishing guides mike schmidt's of west coast outfitters he told us that fall chinook are in the river system right now and we decided to meet up with them early morning now the whole river is one of the mightiest coastal rivers from the pacific ocean that runs fifty six miles all the way up until mt olympus it's a glacier fed river that plays host to some of the and strongest wild salmon and steelhead let's catch up with mike with west coast outfitters so what i'm trying to do right now is i'm trying to get over that back getting behind some of this debris right here and i'm going to try to get my  so hopefully it's not going to get down to this log jam i'm going to have to try to work this guy here all right  so we can get this fish landed james beasley a wicked luers out of port angeles is going to be real happy about this one all right so i got twelve pound test on this and this is the king salmon so we're going to see what we can do with this guy what we don't want to do is to get into that log jam and go down river so many of my camera guy get out of a boat if we could over here so my guide says scott there's a lot of coal in here but we end up going to king on a buncha light like gear here so we'll see what we got here ok all right i'm in for a battle here we could have very well hooked into a twenty thirty pound fish right here on light tackle were fishing for coal but clearly this is a can because there's just not a lot of run around with this guy he's laying low on the bottom right now trying to figure things out so well michael tell you without even looking at him too much come on let's take a what do you think and how big you think that vicious mid twenty's mid twenty's to go ahead guys and reveal this and i think james beasley with wicked luers is going to be happy with that beautiful catch at this king salmon guys right here in the lower hall with mike schmidt west coast outfitters guys you want to catch big fish you definitely want to be with mike yeah so this is my new record you put a little scale in the boat super washed away him up i don't know we've been on the river all day five hours and as you can see in the distance it's a good twenty yards up body his own body weight against me what i don't want to do is bring his head up or he's going to turn on me so here's our guide mike he's going to go get the network we want to keep this one here for you guys so how we will work in this ok i'm going to boy that's a nice coat he's going to want to go down so i'm going to go upstream a little bit i don't want him to get into those ripples you can tell where my can stand and he's only about twenty yards up from the river and if  to good guys or it is our first fish of the day we've been out here on the whole river and we were running some plugs earlier today and then we kind of got down to about two hundred yards off of where we're going to be take it out  and about the third or fourth cast we got him so it's a beautiful fish about ten pounds now all the fish here in the whole river are wild fish today we're going to go ahead and keep this fish is a healthy fish i say it's probably only been in the river you know eight ten twelve with the unusual low tides we decided to head back to the boat can sit down with mike talk a little bit more about the science of fishing in low water conditions on the whole river so mike tell us a little bit about how important the  system here for the pacific ocean is just the facts the whole river the migration of the sand and you know some of the things that we can anticipate them doing with that yeah you know every high tide fish is going to come  the only time a skies worry about the tide is in low water conditions when they need all the help they can get to get up the few bottles and we don't go to rain and what's they need to look at a normal water level they'll still come on every tide but they conditions on that tide we're seeing a burst of a few fish per tide be in early there so catching a lot of fish out the salt you know i will push i talked to some guys out there yes they're very limited you know so most of our fish are still out in the salt water out of the mou there waiting for the water waiting there waiting for the water but you know there's those fish that are getting ready the fish that you know go put up the cell for the whole the want to get in here first they go a long way to go you know so that's all we're hoping for at this point is the rain or fish in the tide right now right now we are probably pole as the crow flies we are only about maybe a mile from the park lion and then from the park wind it only runs a few more hundred yards into the ocean without this water and if it was rough out there and without the water friends we'd be able to hear the ocean question from here i mean you can kind of turn around and see the cut in the bank but we are not very far a fish can be here if it wanted to in ten minutes really know we're that close and they say a fish can try oh for twenty