Puget Sound
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Nice Dave!4/4 today, beach got hot around an hour or so before slack high tide. Lots of pinks and wild coho caught. I kept one pink and one hatchery coho, and let go a pink that I belly snagged (fought like hell) and a pretty good sized unclipped coho.
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Good stuff! They all take the chartreuse and pink clouser?4/4 today, beach got hot around an hour or so before slack high tide. Lots of pinks and wild coho caught. I kept one pink and one hatchery coho, and let go a pink that I belly snagged (fought like hell
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Yup! Didn't switch flies all day.
Fished on @jasmillo boat along with @mtskibum16 this morning. We had to cover a lot of ground and worked for them.
Insane amount of anchovies in the early morning, like a patch of rain cloud on top of us. That doesn’t mean it’s easy to catch a salmon however.
Fished both fly and gear, I ended up catching 3 pinks on rotator/hootchie rig.
Insane amount of anchovies in the early morning, like a patch of rain cloud on top of us. That doesn’t mean it’s easy to catch a salmon however.
Fished both fly and gear, I ended up catching 3 pinks on rotator/hootchie rig.
the_chemist
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Probably should post a real report. 1 for 2 yesterday buzz bombing for a couple hours with the kids. Coho with a belly full of sticklebacks.
speedbird
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Technically was my first fish on the flySculpins are pretty much the rite of passage to saltwater fishing in the Sound
speedbird
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If you want to work hard at it there are definitely catchable numbers of pinks in the sound from a boat right now. Would probably need downriggers though
the_chemist
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And some beaches. Won't be thick for another couple weeks but should steadily improve all month.
We went 6 for 9 today fly fishing and buzz bombing out of the boat. It's that early point of the season where you have to run and gun and be prepared to make accurate casts in front of jumpers and porpoising fish. In a couple weeks you should be able to just post up in one spot and the fish will come to you
Explored the west side beaches this weekend. Saw a couple jump, didn't see anyone catching anything (I only caught every piece of floating salad that came my way). Chatting with a guy this morning who was fly fishing a beach he also reported nothing really going on still.
In other news I've started to fall out of love with my beach boost, I like the idea of a two handed overhand rod, but a nice single hand 7wt would be usable in more situations and I feel like as I've gotten better at casting I can manage the single hand better now. Just need to find the scratch.
In other news I've started to fall out of love with my beach boost, I like the idea of a two handed overhand rod, but a nice single hand 7wt would be usable in more situations and I feel like as I've gotten better at casting I can manage the single hand better now. Just need to find the scratch.
I’ve got an Orvis downrigger on order. I hope it fits in the float plane.
Do you ever feel you might be missing fish due to the amount of line you leave out to help set up your next cast versus being able to strip to the rod tip with a single hander?
SF
Agree.. not on the fly, but my son and I were into double digits on pinks on Sat morning, on a boat, no downriggers needed. I was mostly jigging for kings down deeper and ran a smaller jig shallow for my son, who was hooking up quite often as the schools came through on the fish finder. He is a reluctant fisherman at best, but was giggling hard every time he hooked one up. We have also done well buzz bombing to visible fish over the past week.
I tend to pull in pretty far, today on a 8wt F/H/I OBS I was going to the clear intermediate section was in the guides, the annoying part is getting the OBS (or whatever shooting head) back OUT of the guides to cast. I tend to single haul the line back out once, grab the running line as quick as I can before the fly/line sinks too far and then pick it up, do one quick cast to make sure everythings on the surface then pick it up and throw. Maybe fishing for stripers where they don't grab at your feet like cutthroat or salmon (I have no idea if thats true, just assuming) the head being out far doesn't matter as much and that makes it easier, but in the sound where I have to strip in as close as I can this is the biggest downside for sure.
Stripers definitely grab at your feet. When fishing stripers I strip to the loop/leader, then do a bit of rod tip jiggy action just in case I need more retrieve. Many many times I've had stripers hit right as I think I've finally done enough and it's time for another cast, and even with that level of patience I sometimes pull the fly out of their mouths because I was too quick to commit to the next cast.
Then I don't know
I do think half the time by the time I get my head back out of the guides I could have just been false casting and hauling!
Way back when Socrates was on Instagram he was posing all kinds of piscatorial questions that a lot of scholars have overlooked. His editors were apparently of the mind that his questions were frankly too specific, too high falutin' and the Greeks weren't quite ready for it...
