tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20754104847706099912024-03-13T07:25:04.002-07:00washington fly fishingBob Triggshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01477110366429518001noreply@blogger.comBlogger141125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2075410484770609991.post-74826810937930174102019-10-17T19:07:00.004-07:002019-10-17T19:24:03.835-07:00Muddler Season<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ordinarily I start tying my autumn muddler flies around the first week of September. But this year I was busy, so I am trying to get caught up on them now. We've been getting some crummy weather here, so there's enough time. I tie them on traditional salmon style hooks, with an upturned eye, simply because I like the way that they look. I use the TMC 7989 ("light weight dry fly") in #6 and #8, and the Gamakatsu Traditional Series T-10 6H (heavier) and 3H (lighter) in #6 and #8. I use the smaller hooks for sea-run coastal cutthroat trout fishing on the saltchuck. From around mid September through November, the big <a href="http://www.searuns.com/2012/10/october-caddis.html">October Caddis</a> hatch is on out here on the Olympic Peninsula rivers. And I like the muddler for that fishing. Last Monday we had a nice mild day here, and in the afternoon I was out in the dory, fishing with a friend, and we saw a big fluffy caddis fly on the saltchuck, in shallow water. It was skittering along on and just above the surface, the same way they do in the rivers. If you're fishing on the saltchuck, near the streams, you might see this. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> I like fishing the muddlers creatively, using a variety of presentations and tactics. Sometimes I let them swing and swim like a little baitfish. Other times I will skate them on the surface, letting them skip and skitter along like a big caddis fly. I can cast them upstream and let them drift on the surface, and swing them out to a hang downstream, and jig them there a little before retrieving them. Most of the time I like to give these flies plenty of action, no matter what I am fishing for.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> One spring morning I was walking on a Hoh river trail and came upon a bedding area where the elk had spent the night. There was elk hair rubbed off all over the place. I gathered some up and took it home. It turned out to be a nice color match for the October Caddis we see there in the fall. (I use Arizona Sparkle Dubbing <a href="https://www.azflyfishing.net/thewall/?product=az-sparkle-nymph-dubbing-skips-oct-caddis">Skip's October Caddis #21</a> for the body.) This is my steelhead caddis fly. I tie these on the lighter weight TMC 7989 dry fly hooks so they skate on the surface nicely. Sometimes I grease them. Sometimes I don't. Once they get soaking wet they get under the surface a little. The secret to this fly is to keep the elk hair wing very sparse. Dry line steelhead and cutthroat fishing!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> We are getting some much needed rain here now. The Early half of October was uncommonly dry, and the rivers were too low to fish. And now the rivers are getting some seriously good flows, and a bit too high to fish in most west-end Olympic Peninsula locations. But the saltchuck has been great between big windy blasts. Yesterday was our first big wind storm here. And it was howling. Speaking of wind and waves. When these big season changing winds do come, usually out of the southwest quadrant, you can sometimes see how the wind will push bait downwind toward a lee shore.The bait can be found milling about in the surf, and right up onto the beach sometimes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> A few days ago when this recent blow was building up in the morning, it was hitting 15 to 25+ knots and pushing some steep waves. I walked out of the coffee shop and saw hundreds of gulls all bunched up near the beach, facing into the wind, riding the waves, and feeding on the sandlance, that were teeming in the shallow water near shore by the thousands. Lake fishermen know to fish downwind on the drift. The bugs will eventually end up on the downwind end of the lake. The same can be true of the bait on the beaches. If you can get into a small boat, and row in manageable conditions, you can work along a stretch of beach this way, just like the ghillies do on the U.K. lochs- casting and drifting down on the bait- casting as you go. Then when you get too close to shore to cast anymore, you row back upwind and move over a few yards, and drift and cast your way back downwind to shore again. It's nice when you have a friend do the rowing. The cutthroat know where the bait are. You should too. I did this last week myself, in the dory alone, in a steady 10+ knot wind and chop, and I found a really nice 18 inch cutthroat waiting for me close to shore in surprisingly shallow water. Pay attention to the big wind changes, and the winds that last for days. That can really move the bait around.</span></div>
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Bob Triggshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01477110366429518001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2075410484770609991.post-92032475917576882152019-09-23T18:54:00.000-07:002019-09-30T18:11:51.809-07:00Equinox Winterish, and #dozenfordorian<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The annual October weather shift seems to have come a few weeks earlier around western Washington this year. Our lovely stint of balmy days and cool nights has given way to a full-on cold and wet reminder that it's time to break out the wool sweaters, heavy socks and rain jackets. The rivers have been getting a good soaking, with many smaller waters running high and dirty weeks ahead of the usual first punch of rain we ordinarily expect. Our Olympic Peninsula rivers were running almost dry, so no one is complaining about this much needed life sustaining watery reprieve. And the salmon are taking advantage of these freshets to move up into the rivers to spawn. Reading <a href="https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2019/09/early-cold-and-snow-heading-for-region.html">Dr Cliff Mass' weather blog</a> today was surprising. The forecast for the week to ten days ahead is looking more like early winter than the first day of fall. It will be interesting to see how this affects our fishing. I don't have a serious expectation either way. But these crisp days often bring us some of the best fishing of the season. So what of it feels more like December. And I'm still getting some ripe tomatoes from my little bucket garden. I am loving that sweet pungent air of autumn.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Coho fishing from the beaches here in Marine Area #9 has been uneventful most of the season. Even the cut-plug herring fishermen were lamenting the long wait between too few fish. We barely saw any pink salmon. The big winds and rains that hit here in the last few weeks seems to have stirred the salmon up a bit though, And the catch rate went back up to its more usual disappointing level right away. We've got 8 days of season left here. So there's always a chance to get out there one last time. Hot thermos, Whiskey and cigars optional. And I am going to get out to the rivers for some fall dry-line cutthroat trout fishing. The October Caddis will be hatching now, so it's time for the Muddlers, Steelhead Caddis, Yak Caddis, and Hornbergs again. The colder mountain weather should help moderate river flows over the next week or more too. I'm liking it already!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Most of you know that the Bahamas region was devastated by Hurricane Dorian a few weeks ago, The impacts have been catastrophic for most of the residents. And many of them are employed by the lodge and guiding industry there. Some of them have been completely wiped out of homes, boats, clothing and personal belongings, etc. They are threadbare. Some have lost family members. Many have been injured. The tragedy is widespread. Among many relief efforts is the <a href="https://www.ydccf.org/">Yellow Dog Community & Conservation Foundation.</a> And there is a widespread effort coming from the fly fishing community worldwide to support this cause. All of this is inspiring to see. <br /><br /> For my own part, I picked up on <a href="https://www.ydccf.org/dozenfordorian">Josh Mills admirable offer</a> to tie and auction off a few dozen flies for the Yellow Dog fundraiser. I have also donated a few fly fishing trips to the auctions. All of that was snapped up quickly. The widespread response by fly tiers, guides, outfitters, shops etc., to Josh's simple and direct project, has been wonderful to witness and participate in. And it is still growing. Just look up the hashtag and see for yourself: #dozenfordorian<br /><br /> And here's a little more background news:<br /><a href="https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2019/sep/12/spokane-fly-fisherman-ties-flies-sparks-national-m/">https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2019/sep/12/spokane-fly-fisherman-ties-flies-sparks-<br />national-m/</a></span><a href="https://www.theflyfishjournal.com/2019/09/dozenfordorian/">https://www.theflyfishjournal.com/2019/09/dozenfordorian/</a> <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /><br />Today Josh Mills ( @millsfly on Instagram ) announced a kind of <i><b>final call</b></i> for donations of flies etc for the cause. (I<i> for one do not believe that this will close any time soon. Were having too much fun!)</i> And I still have some time to give for this effort. <strike>We're trying to eclipse the $40,000 threshold</strike>. Saturday 9/28 update. Today #dozenfordorian broke through the $40,000.00 goal for this relief fundraiser. And we're still pushing. I still have hooks and feathers, and my arms haven't fallen off yet. So I am just going to keep it up here.</span><br />
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Bob Triggshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01477110366429518001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2075410484770609991.post-11950797890475138042019-09-01T16:09:00.000-07:002019-09-01T16:09:00.314-07:00Autumn is whispering in our ear.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<a href="https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-story/road-replacement-project-opens-pathway-salmon-recovery-washington"><span style="font-size: small;">https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-story/road-replacement-project-opens-pathway-salmon-recovery-washington</span></a> </td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> There's been some sweet relief from the summer heat around here, as we have gotten a few cooler and wetter days mixed in lately. It's feeling more like the end of September than the 1st of September. And somehow, despite our being some 6 inches behind for rainfall this <a href="https://water.usgs.gov/nwc/explain_data.html"><i>water year</i></a> here, we did not get the heavy, acrid forest fire smoke that we have had in recent seasons. The rivers were low all summer, and they're still pitifully low. Hopefully we'll get some more rain before the October Caddis hatches begin in a few weeks. It's kind'a hard to skate big dry flies across bare rocks and gravel. But you can still find a few sweet spots with cooler water to play with. You'll do better out here hiking and wading this time of year too. Otherwise you'll be dragging your boat or raft across one dry exposed gravel bar after another all day.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /> Right now I think you'll have your best opportunities for fly fishing success on the saltchuck. I have a few friends who have been catching some nice sea-run cutthroat out there. And there's a few coho and pink salmon reported being caught around here too now. (You guys are <i>killing me</i> with these pictures!!) It is not surprising that it's been slow for salmon. But September has always been way better around here for coho and pink salmon fishing anyway. If we let them spawn we will have more fish. That's not the only factor affecting abundance. But it is <i>the final factor - </i>after everything else that we do know, and don't know about what is happening to them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i>After so much mild summerish autumn weather, it was only a matter of time before the first big push of rain and wind would come funneling up the coast and slap us with a doozey.</i></b> The rivers are up, the trees are down, the lights are off. But today the saltchuck here was beautiful. Between spates this is often the case. The rivers have been lower than I wanted to fish over, for way too long. But after this weather system passes through, (after the weekend), and the rivers are once again dropping into good shape, which may take a while, it will be time to get back on the rivers to swing flies for the hatchery run steelhead. In terms of average size, fighting abilities, and a fierce will to live, they hardly compare to their wild progenitors. But there's lots of them. they are relatively easy to catch, and we should do that. Just say'n. </span><br />
<b><br /><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>The forecast is looking grim for the rivers right now though:</i></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> <i><b>These storms and rising waters do move the fish around.</b></i> On the saltchuck too. And it is amazing how quickly the beaches can come back into good fishing shape after a big gnarly blow like the one we had here last night. These waters will often be clearly fish-able while the rivers will remain high and dirty for days, or even weeks. And we can expect to catch some heroic wild trout here now too. It never fails to amaze me how uniquely magical it is to be catching wild trout in the saltwater. It helps that we are situated in the <i><a href="http://www.olympicrainshadow.com/">Olympic Mountains Rainshadow</a></i> too. this makes most storms much less severe for us, compared to the western slopes of the mountains. I have had some sublime, mild days over here on the salt, while the west-end was howling. Don't pay any attention to the weather man: Call me for the details.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><b>We have had an uncommonly mild, warm, dry and pleasant autumn here on the Olympic Peninsula so far.</b></i> And the rivers are running low now, well below normal flows, as we have had very little rain. Not so good for trout fishing, especially with all of the leaves in the water on some breezy days. As October draws to a close, all of this is changing. For the next ten days, the forecast looks like light to moderate rainfall across western Washington. The southwest wind pattern, carrying Pacific Ocean warm moist air, is beginning to set up. The rivers should be on the rise over the next week or so. A hint of things to come as winter edges near. We've had great sea-run cutthroat trout fishing on the beaches all along. And if the rains don't get too intense, we may have really good river flows for some more trout and summer steelhead fishing. There's some big sea-runs getting into our coastal rivers this time of year. The winter-run hatchery steelhead are coming too. And we owe it to them to go catch them. The rains will help.</span><br />
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<b><i> <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What I love about autumn fishing here is how beautiful the forests and rivers are when the moisture, fog and rains are seeping into the parched soils.</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Everything comes back to life, dripping wet. The rain forest gets that deep, earthy fragrance back It's like living in a Sierra Club calendar. By late, dark, cold winter, that will get a little old. But for now, I am digging it. Lots of good fishing ahead! We'll be beach and river fishing all fall, and through December. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i style="font-weight: bold;">We have been getting an extended "Indian Summer" here, with some very mild, sunny days on the water. </i>After weeks of blustery conditions, and several cancellations, I finally got to fish with Leland again, for a day on the beaches, chasing cutthroat trout. We tried a few new spots, covered some beautiful water, and had a great lunch break. Sadly, I did not get any pictures of Leland napping on the beaches this time. Leland got into some aggressive cutthroat after lunch, and he seemed to be surrounded by trout chasing his popper. That action lasted for over an hour, and it was a hoot to watch. There's nothing quite like having wild trout attacking your fly, in shallow fast water. Coho season closed here last Sunday, after a seriously slow season on our beaches. Swinging a #6 trout fly, on a five weight rod, with a 4X tippett, I got a nasty slashing hit from a slab of a coho, that immediately cut off my fly, and headed south like a streak. That the fish was on the surface, made it all the more spectacular. And I didn't mind it a bit. We just take it as it comes.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i>The Olympic Peninsula rivers have been getting some rain and much improved flows for the last few weeks or more.</i></b> Each cycle of rain seems to be brief enough to allow for some good fishing as the river levels drop. This has been an ideal set-up for some great fall fishing. We have not gotten any great flooding events as of yet, so things are fairly stable. The saltchuck has been busy with feeding sea-runs, lots of bait around this fall, and some of the biggest fish of the year. This has always been my favorite time of year. The refreshing cool air, the subtle changes of the fall foliage, wood smoke in the air. And the fall harvest of so many good things. The changeable weather keeps things stirred up and changing in the waters too. I like fishing in the hours and days after a storm or high water event. This keeps the fish moving. And that can really help the fishing, as long as they aren't moving too darned much. These beautiful autumn days are not to be missed. I'll bring the lunch, with hot coffee or tea! </span><br />
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<b> <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> <i>In this last week or so of September, since the autumnal equinox, we have been enjoying some remarkably fine conditions here on the Olympic Peninsula. And the tides have been perfect. </i></span></b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> I will be fishing into the sunset high tides through this weekend. Then we'll be seeing some good early morning high tides to come. This is the best sea-run coastal cutthroat trout fishing season we could possibly hope for.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And after so many summer weeks of hot days, and the acrid, wildfire smoke, burning our eyes and spoiling many days on the water, this autumn comes as a welcome relief. And truth be told, autumn is probably the best fishing season of all anyway. The cutthroat are feeding heavily on bait here, mostly sandlance and herring. The punch of rain we got a few times, especially last weekend, has perked up the west-end Olympic Peninsula rivers, and moved the salmon, trout and summer steelhead upriver on the freshet. If you want to skate big fluffy dry flies, or drift soft hackle flies, for trout and summer runs in the rivers, this is the time to do it. The October Caddis hatch will be ongoing through late fall. The water has cooled off, and the fish have turned on. The only real problem with this time of year is that you can't be in more than one place at a time, and the fishing will be good just about everywhere. In my perfect world, I will be fishing on the beaches every chance I get. Except for when I am fishing a river . . .</span><br />
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<i><b>As I write this, in the last week of August, we are enjoying a respite from the heat and smoke filled air that has plagued so many weeks of our summer.</b></i> There are forest fires burning in every corner of the Pacific Northwest right now. Luckily, there are none burning nearby us. But we do get quite a bit of smoke at times. With the end of summer approaching, we begin to get some cooler days and, shifting breezes bring cooler onshore flow. And we have longer nights. The air and water is cooling. The coho and chum salmon are running. And the trout are on the feed. I am focusing on fishing the saltchuck for now. We see some of the biggest sea-runs of the year, From right about now, and through October, I expect a few big bruisers on any day of fishing Last Friday was no exception to this pattern, as we fished our way along the shoreline, rowing the dory, casting to the shallows, hitting some nice trout everywhere we went. And we caught a few really nice ones too. And it was sunny blue skies and cool breezes all day. That's an harbinger of autumn to hang onto. <br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i>I am loving this superb, sunny summer weather!</i></b> Even though I did get roasted a few weeks ago. But now that the second degree burns have healed, and the last layers of skin have fallen from my ears and lips, I am back in action. Broad brimmed hat, sunglasses, long sleeve sun shirt, sun gloves, gobs of SPF 40 sunscreen . . . Check! I want to be able to remember how sweet this sunny warmth is four months from now, when it's cold and grey and raining.<br /><b><i><br /> Salmon season opened on July 16th here this year.</i></b> Looking out on the Admiralty Inlet waters that morning at dawn, it looked like a naval invasion- Hundreds of fishing boats were working from point Wilson to the southern end of Marrowstone Island alone. And this went on for the entire first week. Last year the state closed the Chinook salmon season within a few weeks of the opener, because they had already nearly met the entire summer harvest quota. <a href="https://wdfw.wa.gov/fishing/reports_plants.html">This year they closed it in one week flat.</a> But this time they are evaluating the run size to see if it can be reopened later. We are still able to fish for coho though. Swinging flies in a tide current, wading in knee-deep water. That's the way I like to fish. We'll just have to wait and see how it goes. <br /><br /><i style="font-weight: bold;">UPDATED! </i>Link here: <a href="https://fortress.wa.gov/dfw/erules/efishrules/erule.jsp?id=2175">https://fortress.wa.gov/dfw/erules/efishrules/erule.jsp?id=2175</a></span><br />
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<br /> <i><b>Sea-run coastal cutthroat trout fishing has been up and down here so far</b></i>, with our good days and slow days. I am certain that the brief extremes of heat had something to do with this. One thing that I have noticed is that we have more two-year-old and three-year-old cutthroat out in the saltchuck around here this year. And they are growing fast. Not surprising since the schools of juvenile herring here have really exploded this season. So this fall the fishing might be really good again. The more the merrier. One of the more interesting reports came from a friend who saw a Minke whale, cruising along the edge of the beach, where he was wading and casting flies for cutthroat. I guess he got out of the water for a few minutes! This is one of the great things about beach fishing here, we see a lot of cool stuff.<br /><br /> <i style="font-weight: bold;">We have had several very hot periods here so far, and we're well into the summer drought and fire season now. There are a record number of wildfires around the state right now. <a href="https://www.dnr.wa.gov/Wildfires">See: "Morning Briefing" here. </a> </i>So if you are coming to the Olympic Peninsula waters to hike, camp or fish this summer, especially up in the mountains, you need to be careful about fires. <a href="https://www.dnr.wa.gov/burn-restrictions">Statewide Fire ban information here.</a><a href="https://www.dnr.wa.gov/burn-restrictions"> </a> <a href="https://www.nps.gov/olym/index.htm">Olympic National Park will have it's own rules.</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /> <b><i>When it gets this hot in the summer, mid to high 80's or higher, we can expect that some waters will warm up quickly.</i></b> Dawn will be your best opportunity for trout fishing anywhere. Deeper lakes and some saltwater situations, will often have cooler water, and better fishing conditions during the day. The key is finding water at 60 degrees or cooler. Warmer water will stress the fish too much. On a bright summer day the saltwater shallows will be very warm. Find the cooler, deeper water on an incoming tide. I have never really been a fan of heavy, deep sinking lines and weighted flies. But now is the time to be fishing deeper and slower, any way that you can do it. I will often rig two rods for a day, one with an intermediate sinking line, or sinking leader, and one with a floating line. That increases my options. It's amazing though, how deep you can drift a fly on a long leader, with a floating line. Clouser flies, bead head soft hackles, cone heads, etc., will sink like a stone with a slow enough drift, even in a current. I still much prefer surface fishing in the saltchuck, with Poppers, Sliders, Gurglers, Muddlers, etc. Many baitfish fly patterns can be tied sparsely, with no added weight, and will swim just beneath the surface with only moderate stripping action. Adding a bit of fly floatant to a light streamer fly can really get it on top. This will work just as well in some lake fishing situations, before the bright sun gets out on the water and sends the fish down deep again.</span></div>
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<br /> <b><i>June brought plenty of rain to make up for the dry May we had out here</i></b>. The rivers got a few nice shots of fresh flows, the mountains got some snow. It's melting fast now. And the Olympic Peninsula rivers are now running low and clear. If you are into hunting for trout now, in these rivers, you will need to bring a headlamp for dawn patrol. Dawn and dusk will the best times. Smaller dry flies, ants, beetles, etc., can be very good. Patience and lots of hiking just might pay off. <i><b>Whatever you do, wherever you go, savor every moment of this beautiful summer!</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b style="color: #333333;"><i>You can almost set your watch</i></b><span style="color: #333333;"> by the near-perfect timing of our annual segway from spring into summer, as these last weeks of </span><i style="color: #333333;">June-u-ary</i><span style="color: #333333;"> so reliably remind us, that for some of the year anyway, we are in the wettest part of the region. Cool cloudy days and colder nights, winds from the southern quarters, and occasional thundershowers, high water and messy beaches, small craft warnings and gales . . . you would think we were going back into winter. But with each passing day these events become less intense, more beneficial than difficult, and before you know it you are out there on the water, enjoying some of the most refreshing weather we get all year. Between the raindrops we do pretty well here sometimes. By the 1st of July we will have a seasonal outdoors burning ban, and we will be the driest region of the entire country for two to three months. And it will be full-on summer here again. Mostly. Hopefully. </span><br /><br /><b style="color: #333333;"><i>On the saltchuck,</i></b><span style="color: #333333;"> were seeing tons of juvenile herring this year around the Olympic Peninsula beaches and nearshore areas. They have metamorphosed by now, and they are running around 2 inches long, and growing quickly. I tie my herring flies from around 1-1/2 to 3 inches long now. And very sparse. If there's a key thing in herring flies in particular, it is to feature some amount of deep, rich blue color in the topping. It doesn't have to be a lot. But it does work well. Tie them sparsely, so you can see plenty of light shining through them in the water. I don't ordinarily use much tinsel or flash on my baitfish flies. But sandlance do have a unique, colorful sparkle to them. They are brightly multicolored at times. </span><br /><br /><b style="color: #333333;"><i>Some other very commonplace forage species</i></b><span style="color: #333333;"> for sea-run coastal cutthroat trout fly fishing are <a href="http://www.orvis.com/muddler-streamer-flies">sculpin and stickleback.</a> There's countless sculpin fly patterns to work with. There's dozens of distinct species in the Puget Sound region waters alone. But I have found that drably colored flies, mottled in appearance, in grays and greens and browns, sometimes in a mix of those colors, works very well. Always have a few black ones handy too. They hold near the bottom mostly, so of course you can tie them with weight; coneheads, beads, lead wraps, pre-cast sculpin heads, etc. And you can tie them with no weight at all. I like the Muddler fly, and the cutthroat do too. Perhaps because of it's sculpin-like or "bullhead" profile. I fish deer hair sculpin on the surface, greased with floatant, with lots of action. The Matuka fly is a perfect sticklebak fly pattern, weighted and unweighted. Most of the time I am fishing with a floating line, and I use longer leaders and slower, deeper presentations, to get the weighted flies down when the fish might be deeper. This works great with bead head soft hackle flies too. And it is an easier technique in faster flowing water. Fast water has a way of ripping heavier sink tips and sinking lines around too quickly. It's a trick to get a fly to work deeply, slowly, in fast water. Employing a Poly leader can do this at times.</span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</span><span style="color: #333333;"><br /><i><b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You have so many fisheries open around the region now,</span></b></i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> that it will be hard to make up your mind where to go fishing. Lakes, streams, rivers, bays . . . One thing that I try to do every summer is to find some new place to fish, somewhere on the Olympic Peninsula that I have never fished before. I have been out here for almost 20 years now, and there's still plenty of water for me to explore. I like the way Doug Rose wrote about this place, and the fishing. He had his heart in it. Seek out his words. Once it gets too hot to go fishing, you can sit in the shade and read Doug's books instead. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i> I was talking with my fishing friend, after a local sea-run cutthroat fishing day here, a few years ago.</i></b> At one point on the outgoing tide we saw a large, dark mass of small fish, moving along slowly in the ebb. It took us a moment to focus on what we were seeing- many thousands of juvenile herring, from 2-1/2 to 3-1/2 inches long, all bunched up together in a "ball", right at the edges of the beach. Just down-current of the herring were some resident coho salmon, and, surprised, we caught and released a few of them right then and there. And we have been seeing plenty of "bait ball" activity, with all of the the attendant wheeling and diving birds etc., along our beaches, and well out into the open waters of north Puget Sound and Admiralty Inlet now. The marine biologists who work here locally are telling me that many of these bait balls are actually large schools of sandlance. So there's two important fly patterns for you to be using this time of year- herring and sandlance, from to 2 to 4 inches in length. Everything, including the sea-run Cutthroat, feeds on these important forage species all year. Flatwing flies will do nicely for this. Count on these forage fish to be in abundance for the next few months, many of them close to shore. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><b style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: italic;">The bright sunny days we have had actually warmed up the water in our shallower bays. </b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We found the best fishing on the colder water incoming tides, and at depths of 8 to 12 feet at times. Some people will use a sink tip line or full sinking line, to get deep. But I use a longer leader and a floating line, and sometimes a fluorocarbon tippet, with a weighted fly like the Clousers, and I can get the fly very deep. You've got to let it sink! But this is something we ordinarily see happening in later June and into July and August. Don't worry too much about this, because the best sea-runs we have caught were all caught in shallow water under bright sunny skies and hot days. Go figure. It does matter where you fish, and when. Our tidal flows here are coming out of the deeper areas of the Strait of Juan de Fuca and Admiralty Inlet, so we get a lot of cold water coming in on the floods. The farther south you go into Puget Sound and Hood Canal this time of year, the warmer the water and the tougher the fishing can be. As is true of trout fishing anywhere, once the water gets above 60 degrees, it's getting too warm to fish without damaging the trout. That might happen earlier than expected this season. Look for the colder water! Trout season is going to be opening up just about everywhere later this month! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><b>The first year that Greg came out to fish with me he wanted to fly fish the Olympic Peninsula for most of the Fourth of July week.</b></i> And he wanted to do something different almost every day. I was keen on sharing the sea-run cutthroat fishing in Puget Sound with him, but I knew he would enjoy all of the other fishing options I could offer him too. So I planned each of our fishing days separately- around saltwater beach fishing, small stream fishing, lake fishing and big river fishing. We have sea-run cutthroat, river-run cutthroat, summer steelhead, a few rare resident rainbow, (Called <i>residualized steelhead</i> by the biologists around here.), and a mix of stocked lake fishing opportunities, with cutthroat and rainbows to choose from. <br /><br /> <b><i>In the beginning</i></b>, and for the first few years that he came out here, we focused on one kind of fishing, in one area, saltwater beaches rivers or lakes, for each outing. But after a few years running of his annual visits here, we began to mix things up on each trip. And eventually we had worked out a repertoire of dry fly fishing on some of the streams lower reaches, for cutthroat, not far from tidewater, usually in the morning and through early afternoons. It can be hot here in mid July, so being in the fresh cool stream flows is refreshing, especially with good shade from the trees overhead, dense along the riverbanks. By early afternoon we would take a rest in the shade, often just sitting on the riverbanks, and have a nice cool shady lunch. We would watch the Flycatchers and Cedar Waxwings and Red Winged Blackbirds, as they chased and fed on countless flies that were swarming over the waters. Then after lunch we might wade down to fish the mouth of the stream, into the saltchuck, as the tides came in. Or we might head off to a good fishing beach somewhere else, looking for sea-runs, or for the early Pink salmon, on the "Pink Years." By later afternoon the air would be cooling down, and we didn't need the shade so much, and we were wading in cool tidewater too. So refreshing. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span> <b><i>For a few months during most spring seasons here, there's a good opportunity to go summer steelhead fishing on some really beautiful waters.</i></b> By mid summer the rivers here get very low, and this gets more challenging. But autumn rain really turns them on again. With the big snow pack and rain season we had last winter, and through this spring, I expect that the summer run fishing will be good well through to July or later this year. these are lovely, and easy walk and wade days, deep in the heart of wild nature. We can skate big dry flies, greased liners, and drift traditional single soft-hackle flies . . . If you like that sort of thing. <br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><b> <i>I guide fly fishers on the Olympic Peninsula beaches, rivers and streams. We walk and wade, fly fishing for sea-run Coastal Cutthroat trout in freshwater and saltwater, and in the rivers for trout and summer run steelhead. This is strictly catch and release, traditional fly fishing only. Lunch, snacks, soft beverages, and use of some equipment is included. I also offer personalized and private fly fishing and fly casting instruction.</i><span style="line-height: 20.8px; text-align: center;"><i> I would be happy to help you plan your Olympic Peninsula fly fishing adventures</i></span><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><i>, for beginners through expert anglers. Public presentations, Naturalist guide, Rowboat picnics, Tide Pool and River trail day trips. Please call, write or email for booking details.</i></span><span style="line-height: 20.8px; text-align: center;"> <i>Now booking for April through October. Please plan ahead! </i></span></b></i></span></div>
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<b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: bold;"> </span><i><b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After a week of on and off bright sun and record-breaking high and low temperatures, the next week to ten days ahead looks like almost perfect weather for beach fishing! </span></b></i></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><br /> <b><i>Up here on the Olympic Peninsula</i></b>, just ninety minutes travel from Seattle, we enjoy more moderate temperatures and less rain and clouds than the Seattle and Olympia areas. Now we are back to a seasonably "normal" May springtime weather cycle- with daytime temperatures in the 60's, 70's and 80's, nighttime temperatures in the 40's to 50's, and an unpredictable mix of clouds, rain, wind, and searing sun. This is really perfect trout fishing weather- On the beaches, On the lakes, On the rivers. Personally, I like it like this. For half of the last few weeks I have hidden inside, cowering from the stifling heat, eyeing the knee high weedy yard apprehensively, tying flies and waiting for the heat wave from hell to subside. Now it's time to get out there, and fire up the weed wacker, clear cut the towering grasses, and hit an late afternoon or evening high tide. It really is nice to have daylight into the evenings now. No doubt the heat waves, and bright light, interspersed with clouds, rain and wind, really stirred things up in some of the lakes and rivers here in western Washington. And judging by all of the hatching, copulating, aquatic flies I am seeing, smeared all over my windshield, the fishing should be pretty good. Ants are in abundance now, and winged ants as well. So I will make sure to have a few in my fly box- yes, even in saltwater- Trout love ants! Big fat one's</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> Sometimes, especially this time of year</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">, when they are feeding on the surface, sea runs will not like most of the flies you are offering them. They are feeding, right there in front of you, recklessly, in big splashy rises. And no matter what you are presenting, nor how you present it- they won't take it. It is likely that they are feeding on something very, very small. A size 12 to 14,(and even smaller!), black, winged ant fly just might do it. Dead drifted on and in the surface, right over those feeders. Our beaches are covered with vegetation, woody debris etc., all home to ants and other insects. Some of my fry patterns are tied very, very small for this same reason. I tie some Chum Baby flies down to size 12, and sparse, on dry fly hooks, with no bead heads, for just these occasions. (More on the </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Chum Baby</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> flies can be found by scrolling down through previous postings.)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> We have had so much nice, almost-summer weather here lately, </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">that one could easily forget that we are only entering May, and we get a good share of cold, wet and windy days now too. And we still have </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">June-U-Ary</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> to get through! Don't laugh- we got sunburned on the beach one sunny June day, only to get soaking wet and half frozen in the rain too. And when I got home that afternoon there was hail in the roof gutters of the cabin.</span><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> </b></span><br />
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<b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;"> </b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><i>If you want to tie your own Chum Baby flies:</i> </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Send $5.00 and a legal size self addressed pre-stamped envelope to me, and I will promptly send you back two sample flies, one small and one larger, and an instruction sheet to work from.</span><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> </b><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Just don't let your wife catch you tying these things in her Porsche!</i><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><br /></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"></span><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> Bob Triggs</b><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> P.O. Box 261</b><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> Port Townsend, WA</b><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> 98368</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px;"> </span><i><b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></b></i></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><i>If you want to come fly fishing on the Olympic Peninsula waters-</i> </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Give me a call or an email, and we can work out the details from there. We need to plan it ahead. The beach fishing has just begun, and each month will bring new and different opportunities for saltwater fly anglers. Our summer steelhead fishing on the rivers should be good through well into July, as we have a substantial snow pack this year, and that will provide cooling flows for the fish to thrive in all mid-summer long. Trout fishing in the rivers will open in later June on most of our waters. But the saltwater cutthroat fishing is way better this time of year anyway.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> </span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> <i>I guide fly fishers on the Olympic Peninsula beaches, rivers and streams. We walk and wade, fly fishing for sea-run Coastal Cutthroat trout in freshwater and saltwater, and in the rivers for trout and summer run steelhead. This is strictly catch and release, traditional fly fishing only. Lunch, snacks, soft beverages, and use of some equipment is included. I also offer personalized and private fly fishing and fly casting instruction.</i><span style="line-height: 20.8px; text-align: center;"><i> I would be happy to help you plan your Olympic Peninsula fly fishing adventures</i></span><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><i>, for beginners through expert anglers. Public presentations, Naturalist guide, Rowboat picnics, Tide Pool and River trail day trips. Please call, write or email for booking details.</i></span><span style="line-height: 20.8px; text-align: center;"> <i>Now booking for April through October. Please plan ahead! </i></span></span></b></div>
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And I have witnessed cutthroat trout spawning in a small north Olympic Peninsula coastal stream around Thanksgiving. But generally we expect them to spawn a bit earlier in the South Sound, and bit later in the North sound and North Olympic Coastal waters. From around mid April we see increasing numbers of sea runs in our local Olympic Peninsula waters, and by now they are chasing the fry around in the saltchuck like crazy! <br style="margin-top: 0px;" /><br /> The more that I learn about these fish, the more I realize how little we really know. But one thing I believe, to a degree, is that "it's all true." The divergent nature of information about the life history of sea-run coastal cutthroat trout is not really in disagreement. It's just that the information comes from different areas, at different times, from different sources. And any one of them can be completely correct for one region, and also be off by weeks, or months, for another, more distant area. We have no reason to doubt anyone's words on this.<br /><br /> And the more that you fish for them, in any particular area, the more you will learn- about those fish in that area. They are free to roam. And many of them do roam widely. But the majority of them stay pretty close to their natal streams. This is known as "site fidelity." In some places, I think most places, this can make them vulnerable to over fishing. This is something that the research of the last few years has brought to light. And it certainly explains why they get more selective in their feeding, and more careful about flies and other lures, as the season progresses.<br /><br /> Much of the diversity of the coastal cutthroat trout life history reflects the evolutionary strategies that they have been forced into by geologic events over the millenia, and also by human encroachments on their habitats over the last 200 +- years. Simply fishing for them can change their behavior in the short-term, we see that ourselves as the fish begin to feed more selectively, and turn down what was once your favorite fly or lure. But it's not hard to see that decades of fishing stresses would eventually cause genetic changes, in response to those stresses, that would change their behavior completely. In some ways, the human race has had the greatest negative impact in the shortest period of time. That's how over 90% of the salmon, steelhead and trout habitat has been lost in the Pacific Northwest in the last 100-200 years. They have survived unimaginable stresses.<br /><br /> So what works to catch these fish today, be it a technique or fly, etc., might work today, but not tomorrow, or the next day, or the next week. Once you think you have them all figured out, they will humble you. Most of the best, truly outstanding sea-run cutthroat fishing that I have ever experienced was almost purely an accident. You can plan everything perfectly, and never touch a fish. And you can stumble into a day, and a place, when you catch the fish of a lifetime. And you couldn't have planned for it better if you tried. That's a good thick slice of humble pie. The only sure thing about these fish is that they keep moving.<br /><br /> Yes, of course, go fishing in the saltchuck any time of year. If you're catching robust, strong sea-run cutthroat, that's a good thing. But, if they seem weak, underweight, still in deep spawning colors, and showing abrasion on their lower bodies and fins, lower tails etc., maybe it's time to give that location, and those fish a break. As the late conservationist angler and writer Les Johnson said, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Fly-Fishing-Coastal-Cutthroat-Trout-Conservation/dp/1571883347">in his great book:</a> <i>"Fishermen have a way of ruining estuaries."</i><br /><br /> There are some really good, qualified fisheries people working on seriously researching these wonderful, unique wild trout in our region. And as long as we're going to be chasing them around with hooks, the more that we can learn about them, from the perspective of true biological science, and their life history, habitats, forage species, diseases etc., the better we can manage them, and our fishing, for the future. I hope you'll consider supporting this effort. Here's the link: <a href="http://coastalcutthroatcoalition.com/">http://www.coastalcutthroatcoalition.com </a></span></blockquote>
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<b> <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>We are having some stellar, spring-like weather here right now.</i> </span></b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And if I wasn't so busy being busy this week, I would be out on a beach, casting a fly, and getting a sunburn. But March has always been kind of slow for sea-runs around here. Not that you can't get a solid surprise now though. But it will be more likely that your fishing will pay off if you head down south on the Hood Canal beaches, or to the southern half of Puget Sound, for the next few weeks. I am hearing good things about the resident coho fishing down there now too. Those areas are typically ahead of us by a few weeks, as far as trout hitting the saltchuck sooner, and chum and pink salmon fry entering the estuaries earlier.</span> <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">By the end of March things will be picking up closer to home. And by Mid April we will be seeing plenty of chum fry along our beaches, and the cutthroat will be close behind. And these warmer days will really help. Most of the resident coho that I have caught up here have been in May and June. They just show up, passing through here. And they will grab a trout fly and fight like hell! Fun stuff.<br /> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> <b><i>On my beach walks lately</i></b> I have not seen much baitfish action, but there's plenty of sea birds feeding in the currents. For the most part I see that they are eating sandlance. Not surprisingly, as these seem to be the most prevalent of forage fish here. Ask anyone who has been fishing for salmon in the summer and fall around here, (</span><i style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://wdfw.wa.gov/fishing/washington/MarineArea/10009/">Washington Marine Area # 9</a></i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">) , and you will hear stories about the sandlance spilling out of the salmon, and all over the decks, when they land them in the boats. Some of the fisheries researchers have said to me that the bait balls we see on the surface of the bay, and on Admiralty Inlet area, with fish chasing them, and birds wheeling and diving over the teeming froth, are mostly comprised of sandlance now. I like tying flatwing flies to imitate these long slim forage fish. Fished on a slow swing, they can be deadly. <br /><br /> <b><i>It's uncanny how quiet the beaches can seem to be, at times, with very little to indicate that there's any fish around.</i></b> But comes the day when there are, overnight, millions of sculpin swarming around that the edges of the tides, bait busting all over, birds galore, and the trout are right there and crashing the bait. Those sculpin and stickleback are just about everywhere in Puget Sound. Try a Matuka fly for that. I tie them weighted and unweighted, in mottled, earthy tones of grey, black, brown and green. The trout eat them. Don't forget to tie some Muddlers too. Or you can be cheap, like me, and buy them in a plastic blister pack, at the hardware store, 2 for a buck-fifty. For some reason, the cheaper you get those flies, the better they seem to work. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">March on the north Olympic Peninsula coastal rivers is peak spring spawning time for most of our sea-run Coastal Cutthroat trout.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">So it's no surprise that we don't see very many of them on the beaches right now. With the milder winter we have had this year it is likely that many of them have already spawned, and some are well on their way to the salt. Maybe this explains why we see some robust, fat cutthroat in the saltchuck now too. But by mid to later April they will be showing up in greater numbers up here, chasing the juvenile Chum salmon all over the place, and fattening up. And it doesn't hurt a bit that we have had some very strong runs of these salmon returning to our watersheds to spawn. For the next few months or more, the regional fisheries biologists and technicians, using smolt traps, will be counting the out-migrating fry as they move out of the gravel redds and down to the estuaries. This will continue for many weeks to come here. And just about the time that the post spawning Cutthroat, and some of their younger brethren, have dropped out of the rivers and streams, and down to the estuaries and shorelines, the Chum salmon juveniles will be well distributed in the same places. And soon the Cutthroat will be feeding with reckless zeal.</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i>These fish, both predator and prey alike, have evolved through this dance over many tens of thousands of years here.</i></b></span><span style="font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">As fly fishers it behooves us to learn about these things. Now is the time! The <i>Chum Baby</i> fly is also doing well up in Alaska, on the early season Lake Iliamna tributaries and Katmai National Park region Rainbows and Char, Grayling etc., that are feeding on fry and smolt in the rivers. And now some of my whacko smallmouth bass fishing buddies are cleaning up with the Chum Baby fly on the rivers and lakes too. So we are discovering that this fly has some application beyond the shores of Puget Sound country. You should be using this fly anywhere that the big fish eat the little fish!<br /> </span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px;"> </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">This fly has become a very well known, popular and successful pattern for sea-run Coastal Cutthroat trout</span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"> fly fishing on Puget Sound regional waters and beyond.</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">I worked this fly up over several seasons of trial and error on my local beaches. After catching many sea runs on it from late winter through early summer, from the north Olympic Peninsula and Admiralty Inlet to the Hood Canal beaches, I knew it was a winner. I originally intended the Chum Baby as an imitation of our out migrating juvenile Chum salmon, which are plentiful here along the shallow and warmer near shore areas, pocket lagoons and estuaries in early spring, and the trout eat them aggressively.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><b><i>What has come as a happy surprise</i></b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><b><i> is how well this fly can work at other times of year here</i></b>, even when there are no Chum salmon fry around. And I use it in our rivers and streams too. Even in the fall. Some people are using this fly on the Skagit system for Dolly Varden / Bull Trout in the spring And now many of my fly angling friends and fellow guides are using this as an all-around fry pattern; in Alaska for Rainbow Trout, Dolly Varden, Arctic Char and Grayling, and on the Atlantic Coast for "Coaster" Brook Trout and Striped Bass. We are also using them on Snook, Redfish and Sea trout down south. This has been a very fun thing to watch evolving. And sometimes we need to remember that this whole fly fishing thing is supposed to be fun.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i>The Chum Baby fly can be presented using a wet fly swing</i></span></b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b><i>, dead drift, cast and strip, fast, slow, shallow or deep- as needed.</i></b> One thing that you will notice about it is that the wing really lights up under water with even a small amount of sunlight. And the sparser you tie them the better this works. Juvenile salmon and other forage fish are not opaque underwater, they are semi transparent. The distinct dark peacock herl collar on this fly is meant to emulate the eye of a chum fry. The glittering tinsel body is to imitate the gut and the two crystal flash strips represent the lateral line. The barring of the natural Fox Squirrel tail wing seems to work very well, even though most of the Chum salmon fry and older juveniles you see will be subtler in color, spotted, and usually more on the green, olive brown side. The peacock herl topping is simply because I am old fashioned, and I try to include some of the more traditional features of old world patterns in my flies. All in an impressionistic effort. Strictly speaking we can call this fly an "attractor" pattern.<br /><b><br /></b><b> <i>I tie them sparsely in the early spring</i></b><b><i>,</i></b> March and April, at under two inches long overall. By May and June I tie them much longer, and with a larger bead. They can be tied with a smaller hook, size # 8 or #10, and with a much smaller wing etc. But if I am tying it larger I do not increase the hook size above #6 as we are trying to avoid injury to these precious wild trout. I like these medium shank length hooks as we tend to get good hook ups, with only very rarely any deep hooking or tongue injuries this way.</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> And on Sunday he followed up with this even more inscrutably good forecast:</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <b><i>After all of the wind and high dirty water the beaches, estuaries and rivers have been getting over the last month, and after too many fishless days, this <a href="http://weather.com/">weather.com</a> forecast looks like some kind of Karmic reward for doing something really good in a past life: </i></b></span><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(Trust me here, Nothing that I have ever done in this lifetime has ever warranted this kind of payout. And who knows how many lifetimes it is going to take to ever get this close to Bliss again!?)</span></i></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The west-end Olympic Peninsula river flows too are falling into sweet walking, wading and fly swinging shape, just in time for the winter-run hatchery steelhead slugfest. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Also, WDFW sent us an early holiday present, with this brief extension on the hatchery coho fishing in the Sol Duc River: </span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <b><i>So, I am looking forward to getting out on the saltchuck in the dory this week. Maybe even for the next few weeks! </i>With all of that dirty runoff water the local streams have been getting, many of the cutthroat have moved back out on the beaches to feed. And there's plenty of bait around now too. With the wind forecasts looking so good, I can row just about anywhere. Oh sweet! Catch me if you can! </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i>If you have been paying attention this past week, you know that the west-end Olympic Peninsula rivers are getting a series of warm fronts, and rains that have the flows spiking up and up.</i></b> And the entire region has gotten some heavy winds on and off most of the week. Yet here on the east side of the mountains, near Port Townsend, and down into Hood Canal country, in the <a href="http://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2017/10/heavy-rain-flooding-rivers-and-profound.html">Olympic Mountains Rain Shadow</a> we are seeing some beautiful sunny breaks, less rain and wind, and even some nice mornings, and a few afternoons too, when the water was beautiful and the fishing was great. Good enough for some solid outings. It is amazing how fast the water cleans up here after the winds lie down, and the bait comes back into the shallow waters, with the trout right behind them. After a rough weather week, those trout are going to feed again, in close.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i style="font-weight: bold;">After this stormy weekend is over, Starting today, (Sunday 10/22), and through the entire week ahead, and even into next weekend, there is an inscrutably <a href="http://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2017/10/northwest-weather-believe-it-o-not.html">nice weather window opening up here</a>, with fair light winds, milder temperatures, and no rain. An entire WEEK! How sweet it is! </i>This is what makes October so refreshing and fun. These brief storms really get things moving, the rivers come back to life. even if they do get high and dirty. And it is still my favorite season for fly fishing sea-run coastal cutthroat trout on the saltchuck. And now is the time that we see some of the biggest sea-runs of the year.<br /><br /> <b><i>Speaking of catching bigger trout.</i></b> The <a href="https://www.cortlandline.com/"><b><i>Cortland Line Company</i></b></a> has come out with a new tippet material that I have been trying out in a variety of situations: Cortland "Top Secret" Ultra Premium fluorocarbon. So far this stuff has been remarkable. In situations where I have been using 3X mono tippet, and the fish have been refusing the fly, All we did was change over to this new fluoro tippet, (same 3X designation), and the fish took the fly. No hesitation. With all of these rocks and barnacles and shells, eel grass etc., we need strong tippets that we can count on. And all of my knots are working well with this new stuff, even when I'm tying it into mono leaders.This represents a significant development in tippet materials manufacturing technology, and the chemistry of diameter and strength ratios. Great for us fishermen. Sucks if you're a trout, though.</span><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now go c</span></i></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i>all your boss and let him know that you're too well to be working in these conditions. It's going to be that good. Give me a yell, and I will get you out in the dory. This won't happen so often this time of year. Seriously. I'm tying some flies . . . Operators are standing by . . . </i></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Yesterday was the Autumnal Equinox. The end of summer and the beginning of fall. Okay, I surrender. I accept it. And there's plenty of evidence to support this decision. Not just the astronomical data, or that bit about the day and the night being equal at one precise point in time that Equinox day. It's really cooling off. We got a little rain a few days ago. The nights are coming on earlier. The mornings are crispy cool. There's wood smoke in the air, and it's not that crummy smoke from the forest fires this time. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i>We have been getting a nice late summer cool down here.</i></b> And thankfully, the air has cleared, giving us blue sky days and starry nights again. The mornings are refreshingly chilled, and by noon we are back to shirtsleeves in the sun. The sea-run cutthroat that we have been chasing all summer have gotten fatter and bigger. This last week of cooling is turning them on, and we're seeing them slashing bait in the shallows again. The trout that were 12 to 14 inches in the spring, when they came back out into the saltwater, are several inches longer by now. So it's no wonder that I am itching to get out onto the saltchuck now. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> <b><i>Speaking of rain. We are expecting some more serious rainfall here by Sunday.</i></b> And the whole weather scheme here will be changing to cooler days and nights, and a wetter cycle ahead. This should be really good for the fishing. It's not the kind of heavy weather we can expect a little later, like in October. But it is enough to throw the switch on better river flows, and good fishing on the beaches too. It looks like it will be a brief soaking, followed by milder weather again. I am loving this! Almost to the day, a year ago, Cliff Mass forecast a similar pattern of weather. Here's his recent forecast for the near future: </span><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The only hard thing about fishing this time of year here is making up my mind which direction to head out into, the beaches are going to be great for the next few months, and so are the rivers.</span></i></b> <b><i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It helps to be flexible. But I would much rather be fishing the saltchuck for sea-runs now myself. I know what can happen.</span></i></b><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Catch & Release, Fly Fishing Only!</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>Please take a look at this link, and send a note to our governor, to demand that the open water salmon net-pen farms be banned from Washington Marine Waters:<br /><br /><a href="https://www.oursound-oursalmon.org./">https://www.oursound-oursalmon.org.</a></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i>Then go to this Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife link:<br /><br /><a href="http://wdfw.wa.gov/news/aug2217b/">http://wdfw.wa.gov/news/aug2217b/</a></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i>More background here: </i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i>Have fun! But seriously, get rid of these things. </i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>It's Still Summer, Dammit!</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><b style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Despite some pretty extreme heat days this summer, these late summer nights are growing ever longer and cooler.</i></b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Stepping out into the evening darkness, under the starlight, I can smell the deep scent of the cooling air and falling leaves already. Much of this is due to the recent drought that has caused some of the leaves to fall early. But it's also true that autumn is taking hold now. Without looking at the calendar you could feel it. And the fruit and vegetable crops have been way ahead all year. Some of the insect hatches here, like the termites, have been a little ahead of the normal times as well. The Autumn Equinox is less than a month away now. So even though we may get some more hot days ahead, it won't last long. That full moon, coming on the 6th of September, will set the stage for some great tides and fishing this month too. However, it is till summer, and it will be for the next month before the solstice. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i>So, I am getting tired of people claiming that it is "the end of summer", the "dying days of summer", early autumn", etc. Nonsense! </i></b>It's 80 frigg'n degrees out there today, and that sun will scorch your hair off! We have months of good beach fishing ahead! And we will be heading back to the rivers once the rainforest rivers perk up, with a little cool rain. This usually starts around Labor Day, with some rain at night, in the higher elevations of the Olympic Mountains, and the October Caddis hatches begin around the September solstice. Big fluffy stimulaters and Elk hair Caddis, Skaters, Steelhead Caddis. Summer Steelhead and Cutthroat Trout on dry flies. That's some good stuff. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> <b><i>Ordinarily I would be haunting the beaches from dawn to dusk at this time of year, fly fishing for the ocean-run coho that have provided me with so much good fishing for years here.</i></b> We didn't get much of a season this year. And it's been a down year for the pink salmon and coho salmon again so far. But </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">there have been enough optimistic fishing reports in other areas around the region this year to give me the impression that these fish can rebound, given time. I still feel that the closures last year helped put many more spawning coho on the redds upriver. That's a good thing. Maybe we should do that more often.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b style="font-style: italic;">We can be grateful for the cooing weather ahead, as it will improve the fishing on the lakes and streams, and even on the saltchuck. </b>Most of our rivers are still running low and warm, but this autumn cooling will help all of that too. Even so, we need those first good autumn rains to get things moving on the rivers again. Check the <a href="http://wdfw.wa.gov/fishing/">fishing regulations</a> and emergency rules updates before you head to the beaches, or the coastal rivers this year, as some of the waters will close early to protect returning coho salmon. <a href="http://wdfw.wa.gov/about/regulations/emergency_rules/2017/wsr_17-16-169.pdf">Marine Area 9 will close to all salmon fishing on September 4th.</a>, (See page 3, item #5). Trout fishing on Puget Sound is still open year-round, catch and release only. And you will find coastal cutthroat trout and summer-run steehead out here on the Olympic Peninsula rivers in the fall. </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> <b><i>One of the many things that I am grateful for is our wonderful, wild sea-run coastal cutthroat trout. And autumn is prime-time for these truly tough fish.</i></b></span><br />
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