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If the conventional guys found them, the fly guys likely did as well.

I’ve seen 50 at Millers. Once a newbie to that particular stretch got upset with me when I stepped in 30 feet down from him. That was funny.

Dude! What a fantastic post!

2, with pride.

Dammit, I keep looking at the picture and can’t find it. Why you tease me like that?

I gave up on steelheading quite a while ago, but this will likely drive me back. Yes, I will fish indicators, yes I will park and watch that indicator float in between several other lines. Yes I will give flies away to gear and fly guys alike! Or I’ll stay home, not sure yet.

In these situations, I’ll first change my retrieve until something triggers a reaction. If that doesn’t work, I’m likely scaling down. On Saturday, I was at a dock in an area West of Lake Union and noticed a bunch of small 8”-12” large mouth swimming around. All I had with me were some...

Another take with this and honestly with indicators as well is the tip/indicator actually comes up a bit. A fish takes the fly and relieves some of the pressure pulling down the tip/indicator and setting up on that can be very productive.

Isn’t this exactly what Starman did?

I caught fish on 6 different fly rods this weekend. I’m in the more is better camp. Type 7 for the win.

Wait, are those chironomids in that box? 🤔

We also heard about this this Summer. Bummer indeed.

I can probably make something like this happen. Even get it out on the schedule possibly.

You freaking won the lottery! Amazing day!

It absolutely has to do with tradition. But “Tradition” is a very tricky word to thresh out. It is well documented that salmon in all the northwest tribes and many interior tribes were used as “money” and as such tribes harvested surplus to sell. My favorite such story deals with Lewis and...

If you are using a fly line and a bobber, I’m coming over and giving you a strike indicator 😂

Overall, not a great idea. Perception is a powerful thing and regardless of your intentions and efforts to not have a hook anywhere others clearly will assume you are fishing. That assumption will lead to the less informed thinking that it must be open and they will fish it for real. My...

Let me clarify first, that I do not believe all of the tribes are the best stewards of the fisheries, but the idea that natives would not have evolved their fishing practices from when they first encountered European/Asian immigrants rubs me just a bit the wrong way. The historian in me knows...

Day 2: Expectation After talking to James the night before, we all decided to hike 45 minutes (30 if you are @Billy) into a lake with big fish potential. I prepared for this, I was ready, I purposefully increased the number and distance of my daily walks so I wouldn’t drag the rest of the...