On Dec 15, 3:49*am, DaveS wrote:
On Dec 14, 4:25*pm, "CalifBill" wrote:



"DaveS" wrote in message

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Im posting this link because its fun, the pix are great, and it gives
a good feel for fly fishing resident Coho and salt Cutts in the Tacoma/
Seattle ares. Mostly younger folks. Some on inland destinations and
rivers but mostly on the Sound. Makes me wonder where Darin is these
days. The bridges you see in many of the pix are the Tacoma Narrows
suspension bridges, successors to the famous "Galloping Gerty" bridge
that failed spectacularly.

http://blogs.thenewstribune.com/fish

Dave

Seems sad they are targeting the smolts. *Those are all downstreamers..

Good thing you are not the decider. Look closer. They are races of
Coho that live in the Sound all year, ie they do not go out into the
North Pacific. The State claims them as a naturalized by product of
the hatcheries. But I suspect they have always existed. Mostly the
small races occupy the very small streams, in fact, Ive found them
spawning in streams so small that the "streams" sometimes morph into
the ditches alongside roads here on Bainbridge Island. Ive caught and
had to keep some this size that had eggs in them. I think they are
also sometimes mistaken for Jacks by gearheads et AL.

Just keep in mind that nature usually does not ignore a favorable
niche; nature adapts, and in this case the adaptation is to the
thousands of very small, and usually very short, year round streams
feeding into the sal****er, in a very wet Puget lowlands climate.

Dave

Is this a new phenomenon? By the time I had left the area in the
early 80's, the only fly action in the salt that I could find was
cutts at the mouth of the Nisqually.

Looks like a good time.
Good pics.

cheers

oz