POLL: Pick my fly- Beach fishing

What Fly to throw? (North Sound- Late August)

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MarshRat

MarshRat

Steelhead
Hello grizzled beach anglers- I’m visiting my hometown in the Northwest and I have 1 (maybe 2) days to fish the North sound next week. I scavenged through my trout and steelhead boxes for passable beach fishing flies, help me pick what to throw.

1. Size 6 beadhead sparkly thing
2. Size 4 unweighted chum fry thing
3. Size 4 beadhead woolly bugger
4. Size 2 heavy dumbbell stinger hook steelhead thing
5. Size 2 light dumbbell stinger hook steelhead thing

(See attached photo- Sharpie for scale)

For rods I have a 6wt + clear intermediate and an 8wt + floater at my disposal.
 

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Are you fishing for SRC or coho?

If SRC is go with 1, 2, and potentially 3 (depending on size). For coho, I’d fish 4 but I’d probably skip them all and either buy or tie a half dozen clousers or stinger clousers in combinations of white, pink and chartreuse. Basic but consistently works.
 
jasmillo said:
Are you fishing for SRC or coho?

If SRC is go with 1, 2, and potentially 3 (depending on size). For coho, I’d fish 4 but I’d probably skip them all and either buy or tie a half dozen clousers or stinger clousers in combinations of white, pink and chartreuse. Basic but consistently works.
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Thanks! I’ll be fishing a beach where I have caught both SRC and coho. Unfortunately, in my experience at this beach, I feel like it’s a bit late for SRC and a bit early for coho, so I’m not sure what will be around. I’ve even caught a chinook there.
 
Chucker said:
I think I would go for #1, but any of those flies would catch a coho, if you could find on that was in a snappy mood.
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Ha, I looked at the pics and guessed that you would choose number 1, which I have also caught multiple fish on by the way.
 
3. Hard to beat a wooly bugger. Does so well one guy’s even renamed it after himself.

Were it me, I’d probably fish #5 for summer sh, then when I got tired of that hit a beach. Our rivers are in very nice shape thanks to the weather and summer numbers have been significantly higher than previous years.
 
I know so little about beach flies, but I do like the concept of this thread. Enjoyable to see the different answers.
 
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Put the votes to the test, fished the woolly bugger for a couple hours. Never caught so many sculpin in my life! They ate on the swing through a rip, and ate on the strip!

Switched to a white/chartreuse Clouser as advised for the second half of the day, still no gamefish. Hope to get one more day in before flying out.
 
MarshRat said:
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Put the votes to the test, fished the woolly bugger for a couple hours. Never caught so many sculpin in my life! They ate on the swing through a rip, and ate on the strip!

Switched to a white/chartreuse Clouser as advised for the second half of the day, still no gamefish. Hope to get one more day in before flying out.
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You freaking won the lottery! Amazing day!
 
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