Some photographers have no respect.Reminds me of 2020. I made the 'paper'.....of course the guy photographed the shittiest cast of the day
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Is that a tiny octopus on your glove?
Jeez, @Kfish and I should have tailed you this morning
. Nice fish!We eventually found some chum but kind of think SRC would have been more enjoyable.
Dayum man, heck of a day! That bottom one is a stud!
Holy hell!
Next time @jasmillo need to distract you so I can sneak around back and stick a GPS tracker under your rig
Didn’t have a day like SF yesterday but got out and did some recon on some new locations I’ve been eyeing. Only got to fish two of them and I couldn’t get to where I really needed to be at the first. No luck there but got into them at the second location.
Just a few smaller ones landed but as always, I take it as a learning opportunity. I’m slowly figuring these fish out. The two below fought valiantly for there size and number three fought hard and then jump right out of the net before I could get my phone out. Hooked into 3 others and missed them due to my clumsy skills.
Just a few smaller ones landed but as always, I take it as a learning opportunity. I’m slowly figuring these fish out. The two below fought valiantly for there size and number three fought hard and then jump right out of the net before I could get my phone out. Hooked into 3 others and missed them due to my clumsy skills.
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That beach in the last two pics, if it’s the e place I think it is, looks like an SRC paradise in terms of cobble, oysters, slow but steady current, etc. But I’ve only ever caught rezzies and blackmouth there. Had some great rezzie days though, back when they were seemingly more numerous in the south sound in winter.
Yeah, it looked picture perfect but all I did there was piss off some seals in the area. They were clearly irritated I was there and making quite the commotion.
I really wanted to get to the other side of the main point there but the trails were closed and I didn’t want to spend a lot of time hiking since I wanted to hit some other areas.
Not sure if it showed above (on my phone) but this is where I really got into them. Same type of bottom but a lot more current. And no seals!
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Divad
Whitefish
Most of the fish took the fly right at my feet last night. Sadly I watched a nice sized coho chase and spook at the last second 10ft from me, twice…
A bunch of 8-12in cutts to hand and one 14” black mouth. Sea lice was heavy on all of them. Forewent the net for a lassie-faire outing, sorry no fish pics.
Stupid question, is sea lice bad?
Divad
Whitefish
They’re not good in large numbers but normal to a marine system. This time of year they’re frequently found on fish, with cutties averaging a dozen or so in parts of the South Sound.
They die when the fish enter fresh water.
Seemingly they’ve become more prevalent in the last decade with some years worse.
Dr. Magill
Life of the Party
Connection to fish farming??
ThatGuyRyRy
Life of the Party
Tried to get out for some blackmouth today, nothing to show besides a giant Irish Lord. Switched up to fly fishing and found nothing. And even the 6 purse seiners in Colvos looked like the were coming up empty.
Beautiful evening though.
Beautiful evening though.
I think some may be attributed to fish farms, but there aren’t any close to where I’ve been fishing.
There are hatcheries though, but they aren’t raising adult fish or fish in saltwater.
Some fish have pretty heavy infestations of copepods and argulids while others in the same area have few to none.
SF
Fish net pens near river mouths or along smolt migration routes are the crux of the problem. For adult fish, it’s less of an issue. However, imagine the difference in scale when sea lice are attached to smolt. Comparable to several parasites the size of a horseshoe crab attached to your body.
Supposedly not, or at least that’s what I was told when I asked a local fish bio about it.
My guess is that the longer they are in the salt, the more they pick up. Just a theory, but when the rivers are low from drought it may mean they hang out in the salt longer waiting for the rain to open the river for them. This year, for example, I don’t recall it raining between the first week of June and last week.