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Moclips is a bit of a drive from most of the fishing on the coast, but there are definitely opportunities for salmon within 30-45 minutes. Something nearby you COULD do is to find a Quinault guide who does fly fishing on the Lower Quinault River. (Taholah, the main tribal village, is right up...

The dreaded "coho curse." It's uncanny how you can go 10 for 10 and then have your next 12 come off. The Houdini of the salmonids.

I'm seeing a lot of 10+ lb. Coho in recent pictures... and it's early. Someone's going to catch a 20-pounder this November.

As you can now plainly see, the 10% figure originated in my bowels and slipped out my posterior. No reliable source to be cited there. Total WAG. Looks like a poor one, too, until you dig down a metric and find that only 32% of that 19% who tried it (about 6% overall) went back monthly or...

I love music almost as much as fishing. Most times, I try to keep the two separate, to maximize enjoyment and minimize distraction from the things I love. There's a place in my world for sitting on anchor in the Gulf of Mexico, throwing a live shrimp or baitfish off the back, sippin' on a beer...

I'm really hoping for a grandkid to get interested, but the odds seem long. Something like 10% of people fish occasionally. About half of that contingent fishes frequently, and about a third of them fly fish. Among the fly fishers, only about half (or is it even that much?) of us get into tying...

Wow! Great trip!

Bauer makes a nice a reel. Glad to see they took care of you.

Nice to see some different fish round here. Beautiful place. Thanks for sharing!

Makes sense that the low light would make for happy bass and get them looking up. Tough to get a bass to eat off the top in the bright sun (in my limited experience, anyway). Does anyone know if the same particulate crap we're breathing when it's smoky gets into the water in any meaningful...

I like a purple woolly bugger with a heavy pink or orange bead (or conehead) for those tidal coho, but indeed, they can be tough.

My only advice (from friends who can tuna)... DO IT OUTSIDE! You don't want that smell in your home for the weeks that it will linger, and you also avoid heating the place up during the "dog days."

That Rainbow Clouser looks great. Nice and sparse! I haven't caught many kings on flies, but I must agree the best biters, no matter the species, seem to be willing to come up. As further evidence, I recall a day several years back on the Lower Chehalis where an old friend and I were tossing...

Another South Fork fan here. I've had mine for 25 years now. It's been dragged miles through the woods, run down Class III river floats (and lots of easier ones), and been used on countless lakes/etc. Great fishing platform, and relatively lightweight. I think they cost about twice what I paid...

No adventure like it. Enjoy!

6 breaks for 3 rods. First four were all my poor, no longer casts worth a hoot, 6-weight Sage DS-2. It was my first and only rod for years. I think it was something of a learning tool and a sacrificial lamb, because I have only broken one fly rod since (the other was s spinning rod).

That's a huge pink! Nice!

Pinks do seem to like relatively small flies, but they will also try to eat big plugs/whatever. Who knows? For sure, though, my most effective pink patterns have been size 4 or smaller.

Pink isn't the only color. They're salmon at the end of the day. Chartreuse and purple are other colors I have had success with. If they're ignoring pink, try something else. If there are a bunch around, one of them is bound to fall for it... or not. It's still fishing.

Stuff like this is fun... because at some level, there lies truth that could help us predict fishing prospects... the question is what level that is and whether we'll ever find it! The cows thing jives with the theory that periods of extended, high pressure (HOT weather) cause animals to be...