Day 1 - I was fishing with Dan Cronin. We spotted a small channel that bled into the main river creating a long, slowly swirling seam. Along this seam and up into the bleed, silver salmon were porpoising provocatively. We knew this would be a good place to try a surface popper and see if we could get a “dry fly” take. Often when silvers are fresh from the ocean and all fired up, they will take a surface popper before you throw a streamer at them. This technique is called a "pollywogging" in these parts. Usually, a holding spot can be good for a couple of “surface” silvers before an angler is forced to go subsurface to get a hook ups. Silvers just seem to eventually figure out pollywogs so one or two spectacular surface takes is usually all you get.
Not on this day. Initially, I tried to raise a ‘bow on a streamer at the seam’s tailout. While I searched, Dan was nailing silvers on a ‘wog. If he didn’t get hooked up, he got an aggressive strike or heart-stopping follow. It didn’t take long for me to abandon my rainbow quest and join him “wogging.”