Search results

Sorry for your loss May she rest in peace

Wow what a ride! Have been a Seattle baseball fan since the Pilots and while greatly disappointed in the loss last night. The 12 playoff games were must watch TV for the wife and myself A couple thoughts - Thought Wilson on the whole pushed the right buttons but those moves only work if...

The cutthroat spawn almost exclusively in those small creeks. While the resulting fry and parr will move up and down in those small streams - typically moving downstream with lower summer flows and back upstream during the late fall/winter period. Can find the cutthroat parr using the...

To expand a bit on the needs of Puget Sound Cutthroat - they are a critter of the regions small creeks. Their primary spawning grounds and rearing habitat of the resulting fry and parr occurs in those small creeks (many of which can easily be crossed without getting one's feet wet). The...

As SF mention the behavior of north Sound cutthroat is much different than those of south Sound. While the south sound provides essentially year-round fishing for cutthroat while in the north sound it is limited primarily to the spring/summer months. On the Skagit older repeat spawning...

All the North sound "S" rivers can produce excellent fishing for sea-runs in the late summer and early fall. That fishing typically holds up into depending on the flows. The cutthroat is a low water game. My advice is select a "S" river that you find interesting and spend some time on it...

I'm afraid that steelhead are indeed that "stupid". Over my decades of chasing steelhead, I recall 3 occasions that I caught the same fish on consecutive casts. In one case I was sampling and tagging some fish. I would slide a fish into the shallows, measure the fish, take a scale sample and...

Have long considered the sea-run cutthroat fishing on the central Sound "S" rivers to be both an iconic PNW fisheries as well one of the best wild trout regional fisheries. I too have 50 years of experience on the river in question with roughly equal experience on the other "S" rivers. I...

Over the last 10,000 years or so our local salmonid populations had developed into diverse and resilient populations with inherent productivities that allowed individual populations to adapt rather quickly to changing environmental conditions. Unfortunately, over the last 150 years the human...

Underlying issue for our declining fish population is really simple - exploding human population growth. Curt

Baker sockeye is indeed an impressive case of salmon recovery however there is a bug or two in that story! NMFS in the Puget Sound Steelhead recovery plan lists the historic abundance of Skagit steelhead as 57,205 of which 5,495 (9.6%) were considered to be from the Baker. Those are just...

Well done Matt! There is no better way to introduce youngsters and newbies to salmon fishing. Unlike say fishing for Chinook a lost fish is no big deal; there likely will be another chance soon. For the fly angler making progress up the fishing ladder hooking and playing pinks is wonderful...

I used to pay attention to solunar tables that predict fish and wildlife activity. During one of those periods (either a major or minor) it was common to see cattle/horse/deer active and about at the same time there would a fish bite. Curt

Had the first Momotaro of the season today on my lunch sandwich. The first Brandywine (my all-time favorite) is a couple days from being ready for picking. Was a little concern with potential splitting with the rain earlier in the week (1.5 inches). One of the Black Krim and one Brandywine...

Am growing a Black Krim this year for the first time. Have harvested 3 so far, a great tomato! Will be adding them to my keeper tomato list to be planted every year. Joining Sungold, Brandywine and Momotaro.

Mature Chinook which as Stonefish suggests is most likely a Jack. However, with the shrinking size of Chinook that cannot be said with certainty.

fyi- Of all our salmon the lowly pink has the most "fragile" flesh which means for peak table quality they should be bled immediately, cleaned quickly, and put on ice (preferably with some belly packing). This is especially true for those in the salt that are still feeding. Bright pinks...

Historically the Chinook and pink salmon had parsed the various spawning habitats (pinks using shallower and smaller gravels while the Chinook deeper and larger gravels/stones) for their spawning. This worked well for both species maximizing the collective success of both. While these...

The goofy thing about the other day is that in the last 20 years I can only remember losing one other Chinook to another angler's gear.

Last Friday, I hit MA10 with my son for some mooching for Chinook. By fishing the second day of the 3-day opener and avoid the mess at Jeff head hoped to find some elbow room. After an hour or so trying to fish in spaces relatively free of trollers I hooked a nice fish with not a single...