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Blue Jeans

Blue Jeans

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I have fly fished off & on for several years, mostly warm water & still water at that. I would love to try rivers & creeks but have no clue where to go. I live in the Olympia area. I'm not asking for your honey hole but a place to try & learn. Also access places. A river or creek is great but how to get to the water or where to park the rig. Thanks in advance for any advice
 
Blue Jeans said:
I have fly fished off & on for several years, mostly warm water & still water at that. I would love to try rivers & creeks but have no clue where to go. I live in the Olympia area. I'm not asking for your honey hole but a place to try & learn. Also access places. A river or creek is great but how to get to the water or where to park the rig. Thanks in advance for any advice
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Can’t really use the “search is your friend” response yet, eh?
 
Blue Jeans said:
I have fly fished off & on for several years, mostly warm water & still water at that. I would love to try rivers & creeks but have no clue where to go. I live in the Olympia area. I'm not asking for your honey hole but a place to try & learn. Also access places. A river or creek is great but how to get to the water or where to park the rig. Thanks in advance for any advice
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Pioneer Park on the Little Deschutes. Place to park and lots of river to walk and fish. Just don't leave stuff in your vehicle that would entice thieves.
 
This needn't be difficult with all the resources available these days. Get out the Washington Gazetteer and find one or more blue lines in the area you're interested in. Note where roads cross blue lines. Those are initial access points. Then use Google maps / earth to take a closer look. Some places you want to access might be posted, so you'll need to try another. These steps will put you on some water. If they don't, then you probably don't deserve to go fishing
 
Jerry Daschofsky said:
Pioneer Park on the Little Deschutes. Place to park and lots of river to walk and fish. Just don't leave stuff in your vehicle that would entice thieves.
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if memory serves...last time i was there your rig was victimized. am i remembering that right? i was down for a visit when our sons were ghillies at the camp....
 
dflett68 said:
if memory serves...last time i was there your rig was victimized. am i remembering that right? i was down for a visit when our sons were ghillies at the camp....
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Yes. That's why I said don't leave valuables. We had fished there many a times before. I wasn't supposed to be there that day, but they canceled tying for PHWFF so went there where our sons were ghillies. I was told to meet at the park since they were leaving the camp. Had all my gear for tying and fishing on base. Ugh
 
Jerry Daschofsky said:
Yes. That's why I said don't leave valuables. We had fished there many a times before. I wasn't supposed to be there that day, but they canceled tying for PHWFF so went there where our sons were ghillies. I was told to meet at the park since they were leaving the camp. Had all my gear for tying and fishing on base. Ugh
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From what I had been reading on the WFF, car break-ins are becoming very prevalent these days all over the PNW. Other then not leaving gear openly visible in the car, there doesn't appear to be a sure fire way of avoiding it other then having someone stay behind to oversee it..
 
Salmo_g said:
This needn't be difficult with all the resources available these days. Get out the Washington Gazetteer and find one or more blue lines in the area you're interested in. Note where roads cross blue lines. Those are initial access points. Then use Google maps / earth to take a closer look. Some places you want to access might be posted, so you'll need to try another. These steps will put you on some water. If they don't, then you probably don't deserve to go fishing
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That's helpful. Dont why I didnt think of that
 
mcswny said:
Can’t really use the “search is your friend” response yet, eh?
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There just isn't that much info on here yet. It takes a while to get the info on here.

When I lived and fished in Washington State. I just went out and bought a good map, a DeLorme Gazetteer. Or went to a Ranger Station and bought a national forest map or two. Look at a map where you want to fish, Check your regs to see what's open. Find where it is on the map and check for roads in the area. Then all you need is to go.

If you lived closer to US 2 I could cut down your learning curve.
 
The Puget Sound can behave a lot like a river and probably offers better 'moving water' fishing than any of the streams in your area. The wildife viewing opportunities are also probably better than any Olympia area stream/river. Might be worth giving it a try. Really easy access at some places, some will take a few years of driving around and looking. But the driving around and looking can be memorable as well.

Take a look at a map, if you see a park on the sound, head there around the changing of the tides and cast an olive wooly bugger out. Wash your gear off w/ fresh water when you're done and you're off and running. Note: it's highly addicting.
 
Cdnred said:
That's always been my biggest fear with using my gear to fish in salt water, destroying my gear. I feel that no matter how much I'd rinse, there'd always be some areas that'll get corroded..
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Wading boots....that's what I forget to wash off the most. And there's some signs of corrosion as a result. Rods and reels are doing fine though. 🤷‍♂️

I don't spend nearly as much time in the salt as someone like @Stonedfish or @Nick Clayton does. They might have seen issues with corrosion.
 
I have fished the salt a bunch over the years and have some gear that's getting to be pretty old these days. I do a quick rinse of the rod and reel (external only) after use and have never had any corrosion issues. Other than seizing the zipper on the front pocket of my waders damn near every year. Rinse your zippers! ha
 
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