No coho today were harmed today, but not a bad setting to do a quick zoom meeting to discuss old fart Medicare supplement options for 2026. 
Way too bright and sunny for my liking.
SF
Way too bright and sunny for my liking.
SF
Puget Sound
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Right on, sounds like a morning to remember for sure!
Nice looking flies, now you gotta share the recipe for the hot fly.
Days like that you’ll remember for months! I have had a few coho days similar to that that are burned into my memory. Congratulations!
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I'm a moderately competent and infrequent beach guy at best but do always enjoy it when I go. This morning I was on a beach I drove aways to get to at dawn, only guy there and holy crap it was quite the experience for me. I was fishing a flat that was draining on the outgoing with sub surface channels and undulations and good current. This flat was absolutely full of cuthroat crashing on small schools of small, skinny baitfish, maybe 2" long at the most. Water depth was 2' - 4' at most and these SRC were crushing the baitfish at the surface 360 degrees all the way around me. As the tide went further out a nice riffle formed in one area for half an hour and a down stream erratic strip matching the minnows getting flushed out was nuts! I only landed 5, several others LDR'd and many swipes and missed grabs in an hour and a half and then the current stopped, the flushing out was done and the cutties split. It was like an episode of Wild Kingdom for a hot sec and giggly fun, pretty cool stuff! Oh and there were some pigs in the group, I didn't hook any of them but they were in the game. All three patterns got some action but I quickly ended up on the really skinny one and that was the ticket
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Few strands of olive flash
Few strands of copper flash
Few strands of white bucktail or similar synthetic
Tiny stick on eyes
Body is coated with resin back to hook point
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It's funny, the top 2 I tied and they got some interest but when I tied on the bottom very skinny/sparse pattern, store bought somewhere along the way it was clear that was preferred. Looks like it's a pearl flat braid body
Few strands of olive flash
Few strands of copper flash
Few strands of white bucktail or similar synthetic
Tiny stick on eyes
Body is coated with resin back to hook point
Well, it is a Tuesday so I figured I’d get one last fishing trip in before today’s predicted Rapture.
Nice morning, good tide movement and I’m enjoying myself. I hear someone yelling at me so I turn around to find a cop. He tells me I need to leave the park immediately as there is an active bomb threat on the beach. That’s a first for me.
I relocated to a second beach and went 1 for 2 on cutts. I consider myself lucky to have earned this additional fishing time on this special day. Odd times…..
SF
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I did not see @Wadin' Boot and his kayak in the area of the coconut.
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Nice morning, good tide movement and I’m enjoying myself. I hear someone yelling at me so I turn around to find a cop. He tells me I need to leave the park immediately as there is an active bomb threat on the beach. That’s a first for me.
I relocated to a second beach and went 1 for 2 on cutts. I consider myself lucky to have earned this additional fishing time on this special day. Odd times…..
SF
Edit….
I did not see @Wadin' Boot and his kayak in the area of the coconut.
Bomb squad called to disarm explosive coconut at WA park
State troopers and bomb squad technicians were called to disarm what turned out to be a coconut in Mukilteo, Washington on Tuesday.
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Was that a Raptured Coconut or what.?
2/3 in about 3 hours of fishing this morning. Lost one that grabbed my fly at my rod tip while I was scratching my nose 
fought him for a minute or so but he popped off at the beach. Had another good follow and a couple missed bites. The bigger fish I landed must of escaped a sea lion pretty recently.
fought him for a minute or so but he popped off at the beach. Had another good follow and a couple missed bites. The bigger fish I landed must of escaped a sea lion pretty recently. 
I saw my first spotted ratfish this week, swimming around in the shallows over some rocks..
Supposedly one of the most abundant fish in Puget Sound, but this was my first seen.
They live down in the deeps where people don’t fish, and so are seldom seen. The only ones I have seen in the shallows have been injured or sick, though that one in the pic looks fine.
There is a popular MA 9 beach where you can see schools of ratfish hugging the bottom against the current on a minus tide. Pretty cool to see.
SF
SF
1/1 this morning. Had two follows within 30 minutes of getting to the beach. One grabbed my fly but missed the hook. Saw this buck jump to my right and I threw a cast in front of him and hooked up within a few strips. Long but skinny. Fought very hard. He spit up a cut plug herring while I was bleeding him 
Nice work @KFCDAVE ! That one is giving me migratory fish vibes. How’s the flesh color on that fish?1/1 this morning. Had two follows within 30 minutes of getting to the beach. One grabbed my fly but missed the hook. Saw this buck jump to my right and I threw a cast in front of him and hooked up within a few strips. Long but skinny. Fought very hard. He spit up a cut plug herring while I was bleeding him
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This one cut deep orange/red. The bigger of the two I caught on Tuesday had very firm, lighter orange flesh. Definitely some bigger fish showing up. I weighed one for a fellow on Monday that was 6.8lbs and I saw one caught today that weighed 7.5lbs.
That first fish is absolutely beautiful! Good work!
You know, I figured I’d make this little game called coho beach fishing a bit more fair for the coho and use a fly with no hook point
.I think it broke off on the fish after being weakened by repeated smacks to the beach. I don’t think I would have fought that fish for as long as I did if the fly had no hook point the whole time but maybe. All good. 0-1 today across two beaches 2-2 yesterday across a couple of beaches as well. Landed fish had extra fins or were smallish and too bronze to bother taking home.
Probably my best day of the season so far. 2/5 in a little under 2 hours of fishing. Hooked two fish within 30 minutes and they both popped off at the beach while I was trying to land them. Had a pretty large fish, Im guessing 6lb + take it 10’ in front of me and it give me a few tail slaps before spitting the hook. Wind looks pretty gnarly tomorrow, I think I might give it a break.
Sounderman
Just Hatched
Might I politely ask what Marine area you were in? Thank you.