Bill, You're killing me with all these pics. Last year I made my first trip up to the Olympic Peninsula. I did a four day backpacking trip up the Hogh River (sp?) trail. I didn't get to fish but it was some of the most beautiful country I've ever seen. I hope to get back up to that neck of the woods again and when I do I hope to hook up with you and do a little trout chasing. Congrats on the Bull Trout (aka Dolly Varden) I have yet to get one myself.
Jim Burbank ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill & Tina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 12:17 AM Subject: [VFB] Fishing report for the weekend > Photo's: > http://www.graysharborcomputer.com/flyfish/salmonriver.htm > http://www.graysharborcomputer.com/flyfish/quinaultr2.htm > > Wow! What a great weekend of river fishing. Sat morning I took off for the > Queet river on the Olympic peninsula its about two hours away from my house. > After finding it on the map I decided to fish the Salmon River down to it's > confluence with the Queets. Fishing was a bit slow with very low water. I > did manage to catch a few nicely colored cutt's though. After I got to the > Queets things got very slow. I decided to bag it and go explore some new > water. I started toward the Clearwater river but I noticed a lot of weekend > campers and traffic. I decided to head to the North fork of the Quinault > after fishing the south fork the previous weekend. After getting on the > river I hooked into a nice rainbow or was it a steelhead? I have questions > I'll get to on my next post regarding this. These guys really jump. What a > gas. While I was out I talked to a couple that was fly fishing and the > fellow said he caught a couple of Dolly Varden... this conjured up images of > Canadian char... I decided to come back the next day right then. The next > day I caught my first Dolly. Wow! These char really know how to put up a > good fight. He headed down and tried to tangle me around rocks, made hard > runs up and down stream and generally put up a wonderful fight. After taking > a few pictures I slipped the beautiful fish back to the water... I'll be > back. > > Smiling in Washington, > Bill P. > >
