Well, actually lazy. I cycled through a number of flies casting at those lock jawed bastards and was conserving leader material so I did not have to change it.
But yes, you can indeed still catch fish with an improved clinch…
Puget Sound
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Well, actually lazy. I cycled through a number of flies casting at those lock jawed bastards and was conserving leader material so I did not have to change it.
But yes, you can indeed still catch fish with an improved clinch…
People that use jig head hooks, use a clinch knot on the back (front?) of the eye loop, which turns their fly into a balanced fly for stillwater use…
the_chemist
Life of the Party
Ya I do this. Leaving the improved clinch on my jig head hooks when I cycle through. Eventually the popular ones get 3 or 4 knots in the eye and they are locked into a horizontal presentation.
We saw one salmon jumped, most likely a coho, no chums yet at this spot.
wanderingrichard
Life of the Party
Is there a picture of these mysterious jello critters ?
Jellies
t_law
Steelhead
Ich bin ein Berliner (I am a jelly donut).
wanderingrichard
Life of the Party
Ok that looks like bad video of a UFO...
I’ve been cooped up for the past week with the crud so needed to get out. Frost and 37° when I started. 
Headed south to look for cutts. Ended up bringing a dozen to hand. Lost one jumbo. When they take line out of your basket, those are the ones you’d like to shake hands with.
A few this size, but most were smaller.
Landed a jack coho.
Then went 1 for 3 on its big brothers and sisters.
SF
Headed south to look for cutts. Ended up bringing a dozen to hand. Lost one jumbo. When they take line out of your basket, those are the ones you’d like to shake hands with.
A few this size, but most were smaller.
Landed a jack coho.
Then went 1 for 3 on its big brothers and sisters.
SF
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Ask Not What Your Country Can Do For You, Ask What You Can Do For A DONUT!
A few small ones to hand this morning and one better one unbuttoned along with some missed grabs, chases and swirls. After being very frustrated yesterday over two sessions, morning and evening with no connections over active fish and a slew of pattern changes today i tried a couple patterns i tied last year from Les Johnsons book, old school patterns, Blair's Baiter and Ferguson's Green and Silver, tied small and sparse. Both worked until i lost them on lazy backcasts, only had one of each. Fun morning.
chines42
Steelhead
Looking to hit some Kitsap Co. chum stops tomorrow, hopefully I'll get lucky
Hit the sound with @Kfish in his boat looking for chum today and maybe an SRC. Hooked some chum but tough landing in strong current. Not the end of the world, they were all going back, and the last few feet getting a chum in the net is the most painful and dangerous to rods anyway. Should have hooked way more than we did considering the number of fish we hit our flies in front of but they just weren’t nippy on the tide we were fishing. Fun morning on the water regardless. Ended up with an early fall Sound trifecta though the SRC caught were on the small side.
Last adult salty coho of 2025…?
Chum
SRC
Last adult salty coho of 2025…?
Chum
SRC
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