I wondered what flies were used for Hoodsport kings.
I have some "odd" ones I use for the humpies when they're in.
Now about the 12 lb tippet. If your pontoon boat is anchored then you can get away
with a heavier tippet.. but don't make the mistake of going to heavy. Otherwise
you'll get drug over to Bremerton by the time you pop your tippet.
Or... you could end up with a tippet that's stronger than your backing.. and..
well.... I'll let you figure that one out. Us "frugal types" don't like to lose
pricey fly lines.
Bill W
> ----------
> From: Patrick Petersen[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, August 28, 2000 11:58 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Hoodsport
>
> Bill,
>
> I wouldn't even think of fishing Hoodsport without my pontoon boat because
> with a high tide there is very limited fishing from shore and that's when
> there is combat fishing at it's finest. I threw a small bait fish pattern
> with a quick retrieve, later to find out that the slowest possible retrieve
> works best. There are fish in there and if the natives don't net this week
> I'll be there again for sure this weekend. You may want to check out a site
> called bcfishin.com. It is by far the best sight yet on the net for
> flyfishing for kings and Coho that I've seen. I ran into a guy that fly
> fishes as much as I down there last weekend and he said he had played about
> a dozen fish fish the Monday before but was able to only land two. He
> laughed at me for even thinking I could land one on twelve pound test, he
> uses a minimum of fifteen. If you are up to a challenge meet me there this
> weekend and lets play with the big boys.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Patrick
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Warner, Paul W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, August 28, 2000 9:06 AM
> Subject: RE: Hoodsport
>
>
> > Patrick,
> >
> > What sort of flies were you "slinging" over there, and were you fishing
> from shore or did you take your pontoon boat?
> >
> > Bill Warner
> >
> > > ----------
> > > From: Patrick Petersen[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Sent: Saturday, August 26, 2000 7:30 PM
> > > To: Fellow crusaders
> > > Subject: Hoodsport
> > >
> > > Fished the incomming tide from noon til 5:30 with not even a bite.There
> were a few fish around crashing the surface but from what I hear the natives
> had netted on tuesday and had eleminated about 2000 fish. There were several
> fishermen who I talked with who caught several fish on monday and said that
> up and til tuesday fishing had been real good. There were three of us fly
> fishing today with no luck but one person did hook up for about ten minutes
> before that fish had practiced LDR. Perhaps I'll try again next weekend. The
> re was one fish in the ponds that had to be almost fifty pounds that in
> itself made the trip worth while.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Patrick
> > >
> >
>
