By Kate Reardon
Herald Writer
EVERETT — Tami Rowe caught three pink salmon on Sunday in the first few hours of casting from the shore of the Snohomish River near the Lowell neighborhood.
"Patience," she said.
Her fishing partners, however, weren’t so lucky.
"You just have to keep trying," one of them said.
Curt Cloninger and Dean and Nicole Norberg synchronized their casts from the shore while admiring Rowe’s prize. Four-year-old Mackenzie Norberg watched nearby from her kid-sized chair perched on the stone landing.
Saturday marked opening day for pink salmon season in the Snohomish and Stillaguamish river systems.
The fish are commonly known as humpbacks or humpies because of the hump that develops on the adult males before spawning.
Because pink salmon, the smallest of the Pacific salmon, aren’t as tasty as other varieties, Rowe said she’ll smoke hers. Silvers caught the day before will be for the barbecue, Dean Norberg said.
Sunday seemed to be a perfect day for fishing, too. Rowboats and motorboats speckled the Snohomish River. Anglers claimed places on the riverbank.
A few people using personal watercraft or motorboats zoomed past some anglers, spoiling fishing as the wake washed over. But the anglers quickly resumed position for another try.
In this state, pink salmon runs only occur every other year. The salmon live for two years, and then return home to spawn.
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