to northwest waters today we get a chance to head out to the olympic peninsula to meet up with the premier fly fishing guide mike today's going to give us some instruction with some brand new exciting new gear by redington and also get us a chance to maybe hook into the newly arrived winter steelhead now as you can see over my shoulder we're on the upper part of the whole river now this is a fifty six mile river that runs from the glacier on mount olympus to the mouth of the pacific ocean today we're going to be fishing quarter out so the little white dots yeah right there you go quarter out and as you push you twist and line them up that binds them together and they don't come apart when you're casting beautiful super close rods are nice nice and light because if you do you know fred here and you see what happens yeah it comes right through well if you loop by line and you go through this one and then you go through to this one and then if you go all the way up and you're all the out stop it won't go all the way back through it actually stops because if you've done enough times it will happen so this makes a lot easier to string it up yeah get some help here you can makes it easier to string the whole ride up specially on these thirteen foot space rods because they are very long and just keep stringing them all the way up and scott we're going to pick our fly here this great black with a green had  not just like that nugget up the closer you can right there take it right into the eye snug it right up there around five times one two and obviously technique in a lot of these other things but if you get them all to converge together you're going to you're definitely could could take off i mean obviously the the baseball analogy is that you're talking about are easy for me to stand and deliver enough and loading the rod and all to western washington to the whole 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 mighty it's coastal reverse 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  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 to the back getting behind some of this debris right here and i'm going to i'm trying to get my my wicked lure here so so hopefully it's not going to get down to this log jam i want 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 we've 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 somehow my camera guy get out of a boat if we could over here so my guide says i got 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've 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 we're fishing for coal but clearly this is a king because there's just not a lot to 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 c look at this king salmon guys right here in the lower hall with mike schmidt west coast outfitters guys if 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 w why don't we well that's a big fish well folks we're we've had a crossroads we've put our first fish of the day here in the lower hall with mike schmitz of west coast outfitters and he just told me we're going to go net 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 which is good not keeping my rod tip down so i can use his body his own body weight against me but 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 definitely want to keep this one here for you guys so how we will work in this is just a very small area just lettin that spinner kind of dangle down and really worked at swing and i got him right on the downsw stand and he's only about twenty yards up from the river and if this fish fish gets into those were all kinds of trouble and i had my carry is right here man this guy yeah yeah he doesn't like that shallow water does the areas right  nice to hear good guys or it is our first fish of the day we've been out here on the whole river and we were run 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 hours 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 u the only time us guys worry about the time 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 don't need the tide steadily come so kind that when we got our normal water and this goes with the whole river goes with down the coulee a river we don't care about the tide if we've got normal all the conditions now how it is now low water  conditions on that tide we're seeing a burst of a few fish per tide be in early they're still 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 clear of 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 park right now we are probably pole as the crow flies we are only about maybe a mile from the park line and then from the park wind it only runs a few more hundred yards into the ocean without this water  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 and we are not very far a fish can be here if it wanted to and ten minutes really know we're that close and they say a fish can travel