Good evening folks.

I spent almost 80% of my day today trying to figure out how to achieve the depth to reach the salmon. I have caught one salmon on the swing, in the very very early morning at the ring of fish on for the alarm to start fishing, last year.

I am using either a 7wt 13' echo tr2 or a 10' 8" 5wt echo switch. I just got 12.5' of t8 which touched bottom at river bend today fishing from the island stream outlet down into the tail out. That's a first for me to grab a structure or object on bottom ever.

I have been using the opst dual density s5/s6 at 12.5' and never grabbed bottom.

So now I've figured out the sink tip depth for current flows, what do I need to swing for the salmon run? I've tried leeches with local bugs off the hook bend. Simple orange and white spey pattern, purple and blue,purple,pink...

Something has to get them to get mad enough to go and grab...