Fun Blog for Puget Sound FFing

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

"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.

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

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

On Dec 15, 5:47*pm, MajorOz wrote:

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

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It's been there so long I forget if they were there in the early 1970s
when I arrived. I am pretty sure my fishing for them in the Rich
Passage, Agate Pass, and at Point-No-Point started at least in the
1980s. My catching was always sporadic. A few years ago ROFFIANS Darin
from Port Townsend, and Daniel and I fished together in the salt for
Cutts near PT, in the Indian Island channel and off the shallow beach
at Ft. Flagler. I do not recall that any Coho were caught that day. My
home spot for Coho is the big back eddy under the Agate Pass Bridge on
the Island side. (Just be careful going down the trail as its very
steep and slippery.

Was out today with the dog and pack at the creosote plant beach and
noted some dead Candle fish in the surf line. That's a good sign that
there are salmon around (or pretty agile seals) so I might give it a
go tomorrow. A week ago or so we got hit with 15 inches of snow and
its finally been melting off. Really screwed up plans for visit in the
San Juans and a loose plan to fish inland. Consequently Ive been doing
more woods walks on the Island. Noticed they've got bear warnings out
at one site. Thats either new and interesting, or another arriveste
hallucination. Time will tell.

Dave