I have spent the last two months chasing silvers around the Snohomish river system, and it's been a very interesting season. After 27 trips targeting silvers there never seemed to be a consistent pattern. In past years we would find fish and then mix up our offerings until we found a winner, this year the trick was finding the fish. We spent a lot of time moving from spot to spot looking for schools of fish and when we did find them they did not seem to stay in one place long. We found most of our success in the lower river, the fish in the sloughs were way more aggressive and each tide would replenish the stock. Out of the 27 trips specifically targeting silvers we only had three days with no fish, with most days averaging two fish per person. Another interesting tidbit was most fish this year came on big spinners size 5-6 with some kind of rubber squid as opposed to previous years where Dick-Nites, various types of jigs and small Vibrax size 2-3 were the ticket. Now starts the late run silvers and I have several rivers that will produce well into January with the added bonus of bright Steelhead. I also just returned from Taking a group to Rufus Woods and had a great time catching 3-10 pound trips, rainbows, cutts and the occasional brown. We also picked up some real nice walleye while jigging for trout.