No Silvers Yet

.. . . or Searuns for that matter.

Been making cider and digging garlic and being too overly pridefull of
our Jersey style sweet corn so needed a brake and needed to wet a line
so . . . We went up to Point No-Point yesterday and had a go for
Silvers (Coho) in the salt. Me, Swimbo and friend.

Beautiful day, with lots of boats and ships on the Sound. A few Gear
boys on the tip but wide open on the flanks. The right side of the
point is steep right away, and the waves can easily knock you off your
feet and one roller did later in the day. Used some standards, Coho
fly, etc. No takes.

Worked around point over an hour or so onto the roily flan on the SE
side of the point. Surf still up and needed to keep cognizant of the
waves developing 1/4th mile or so out. No knock downs here however.
Changed flys to smaller stuff and coneheads. Giving my 9' a good
workout and switching to coneheads, maybe some cutts will take pity.
No dice. Damn OK we NEED to CATCH SOMETHING. And did. Bullheads on a
stimy w/ splitshot. Oh well Father Murphy, how many Hail Marys for
each one did you say?

Fun day, anyway and in any case the dogs wrestled themselves silly and
the chicken salad w/apple was lovely.

Maybe Ill do better on Agate Pass or possibly Rich Passage later this
week.

Dave

On Sep 14, 2:36*pm, DaveS wrote:
. . . or Searuns for that matter.

Been making cider and digging garlic and being too overly pridefull of
our Jersey style sweet corn so needed a brake and needed to wet a line
so . . . We went up to Point No-Point yesterday and had a go for
Silvers (Coho) in the salt. Me, Swimbo and friend.

Beautiful day, with lots of boats and ships on the Sound. A few Gear
boys on the tip but wide open on the flanks. The right side of the
point is steep right away, and the waves can easily knock you off your
feet and one roller did later in the day. Used some standards, Coho
fly, etc. No takes.

Worked around point over an hour or so onto the roily flan on the SE
side of the point. Surf still up and needed to keep cognizant of the
waves developing 1/4th mile or so out. No knock downs here however.
Changed flys to smaller stuff and coneheads. Giving my 9' a good
workout and switching to coneheads, maybe some cutts will take pity.
No dice. Damn OK we NEED to CATCH SOMETHING. And did. Bullheads on a
stimy w/ splitshot. Oh well Father Murphy, how many Hail Marys for
each one did you say?

Fun day, anyway and in any case the dogs wrestled themselves silly and
the chicken salad w/apple was lovely.

Maybe Ill do better on Agate Pass or possibly Rich Passage later this
week.

Dave

Do you ever get to the south end of the Sound ?

Mouth of the Nisqually was always my best bet for sea-run cutts.

cheers

oz

On 2010-09-14 18:01:46 -0400, MajorOz said:

On Sep 14, 2:36*pm, DaveS wrote:
. . . or Searuns for that matter.

Been making cider and digging garlic and being too overly pridefull of
our Jersey style sweet corn so needed a brake and needed to wet a line
so . . . We went up to Point No-Point yesterday and had a go for
Silvers (Coho) in the salt. Me, Swimbo and friend.

Beautiful day, with lots of boats and ships on the Sound. A few Gear
boys on the tip but wide open on the flanks. The right side of the
point is steep right away, and the waves can easily knock you off your
feet and one roller did later in the day. Used some standards, Coho
fly, etc. No takes.

Worked around point over an hour or so onto the roily flan on the SE
side of the point. Surf still up and needed to keep cognizant of the
waves developing 1/4th mile or so out. No knock downs here however.
Changed flys to smaller stuff and coneheads. Giving my 9' a good
workout and switching to coneheads, maybe some cutts will take pity.
No dice. Damn OK we NEED to CATCH SOMETHING. And did. Bullheads on a
stimy w/ splitshot. Oh well Father Murphy, how many Hail Marys for
each one did you say?

Fun day, anyway and in any case the dogs wrestled themselves silly and
the chicken salad w/apple was lovely.

Maybe Ill do better on Agate Pass or possibly Rich Passage later this
week.

Dave

Do you ever get to the south end of the Sound ?

Mouth of the Nisqually was always my best bet for sea-run cutts.

cheers

oz

Fortenberry thinks those cutts are stocked. He really, really does. d;o)

Dave

On Sep 14, 3:01*pm, MajorOz wrote:
On Sep 14, 2:36*pm, DaveS wrote:





. . . or Searuns for that matter.

Been making cider and digging garlic and being too overly pridefull of
our Jersey style sweet corn so needed a brake and needed to wet a line
so . . . We went up to Point No-Point yesterday and had a go for
Silvers (Coho) in the salt. Me, Swimbo and friend.

Beautiful day, with lots of boats and ships on the Sound. A few Gear
boys on the tip but wide open on the flanks. The right side of the
point is steep right away, and the waves can easily knock you off your
feet and one roller did later in the day. Used some standards, Coho
fly, etc. No takes.

Worked around point over an hour or so onto the roily flan on the SE
side of the point. Surf still up and needed to keep cognizant of the
waves developing 1/4th mile or so out. No knock downs here however.
Changed flys to smaller stuff and coneheads. Giving my 9' a good
workout and switching to coneheads, maybe some cutts will take pity.
No dice. Damn OK we NEED to CATCH SOMETHING. And did. Bullheads on a
stimy w/ splitshot. Oh well Father Murphy, how many Hail Marys for
each one did you say?

Fun day, anyway and in any case the dogs wrestled themselves silly and
the chicken salad w/apple was lovely.

Maybe Ill do better on Agate Pass or possibly Rich Passage later this
week.

Dave

Do you ever get to the south end of the Sound ?

Mouth of the Nisqually was always my best bet for sea-run cutts.

cheers

oz- Hide quoted text -

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Quick answer is "no to seldom" anymore. I am getting near 70 and I
live on an Island in Kitsap Co. ie longest shoreline of any co. in US
(OSTGWHUB). So, . . . my sal****er action is mostly around here. As
you know, Searun fishing is feast or famine and mostly shallow water
stuff. And in 10-20 minutes I can be on Agate Pass or the Rich Passage
or Port Orchard (Bay?). So if no fish I can quickly get back to my "to
do" lists.

And I am no specialist. Consequently I tend to focus on times when the
Candle fish are present for bothe the Searun and the Silvers. I seldom
target Chum (Dog Salmon) because of various crowding and gross
factors. Except in the Dewatto estuary. But a reported good run of
Humpies/Pinks can get me off my butt a little further down the road to
Jefferson or elsewhere. I also like Point No Point because it's so
damn beautiful no matter the season or weather.

Having said all that thanx for the suggestion. You may have planted a
seed to get me outta the rut.

Dave