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Friendly Phil picked me up at the Nisqually Refuge and we drove about another half hour North on I-5 to the Point Defiance ferry lot where there’s a large parking lot and boat launch. We were on the water around 11 am and the tide was dropping from high to low. Pinks were jumping everywhere...

I’ve been using a 60 degree jig hooks and 5/32 or 3/16 slotted beads. Works both ways and easier to tie than those troublesome pins. And the body is shorter. The ones in the pic are plain round beads.

You should be able to paddle board up from the state park. A friend and I motored up a few years ago to take a look. Very scenic canyon. The other folks are right about the fishing. It used to be better when they stocked the river up by Morton. There’s some state park owned land with a one...

“Gaze upon my works ye mighty and despair” , said Norm. (I stand in awe)

I like some of the patterns that ScottP and Finluver tied, but the best pattern that I have used and tied came from Mike Sturza at Lost Creek fly shop in Onalaska. Disclaimer: I’ve only fished this on the Cowlitz in September and October but I’ve caught many steelhead and Searun cutts. Mikey...

Hooked two good rainbows on a foam damsel this afternoon but the both came unpinned after several long runs.

Phillip Rowley’s flymph pattern worked today on this 18” Rainbow:

More Pink Salmon flies: I saw these in the fly box for sale on the Classifieds Hook: Mustad 34011 size 6 with lead wraps to suit Bead: 5/32 pink Hackle: fluorescent pink saddle Body: silver braid Tail: fluorescent pink maribou Flash: pink crystal flash or none

Callabaetis flymph (Phillips Rowley) Hook: size 14 dry fly Tail: grizzly hen Abdomen: gray turkey biot Thorax: gray rabbit Hackle: grizzly hen Thread: gray 8/0

Is it still a fly if it has a hoochie tail? Hook: gamakatsu SS15 size 6 Head: pink tungsten bead 5/32” Eyes: glue on plastic covered wit uv cure Thorax: pink 1.5” hoochie

I was having a senior moment. It’s really a balanced damsel, but don’t tell anyone.

Balanced Leech Hook- FullingMill 5045 size 14 Bead- FullingMill tungsten offset gold 3mm Wire-small gold Tail, abdomen, thorax- olive maribou Comment- offset bead is a method of tying a balanced leech without the pin.

I bought that boat in 92 or 93 in Yakima with accessories for $400. I think they’re $1500 or so now. Worst treatment it had was when I forgot to strap it down on the lance camper after fishing Lenore and dragged it down the highway for a quarter mile. The rough asphalt wore a hole in both...

Star of the show on Friday. Caught 5 15-16” Rainbows and lost one. Tied on a #14 60 degree jig hook.

My Fishing buddy died a couple years back. I bought a Garmin 4. It’s more complicated but there are good tutorials on youtube. I miss the sidefinder on the Fishing buddy. I don't use it much to find fish. I use it to determine temperature and depth. The mapping feature is excellent. Every...

Thanks Steve, that’s very interesting. It would be even more interesting if I find daphnia in that lake and catch fish on blobs.

Appears to be an aquatic worm. Found today in a lowland lake. 1-1.5 inches long. Photographed on a hat bill near a chironomid fly.

I’ve been using a 10.5’ St Croix rod with an Okuma reel spooled with Pline to fish jigs or squirmy worms in lakes to fish for jumbos. We’ve been fishing out of the drift boat on the middle seat with two partners fishing fly rods. Fishing three fly rods out of a drift boat is a recipe for...

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