A new friend and I floated the lower stilly yesterday from sylvanna to the tide water. The water is lower than I have ever seen down there and there was a lot of dragging of the pontoon boats. The first cast brought a nice bright humpy to hand but we released it quickly because the opener is not till September first but you would never know it with all the people and their hardware lining the banks. We did catch several humpies and four nice cutts with the largest cutt being about thirteen inches. The fish were all above the tide water which was kind of a disappointment. We really wanted to intercept the incoming tidal fish but there seemed to be nothing coming in with the tide as far as any real numbers. The cutts we did bring to hand were all behind pods of humpies in the tail outs caught on a pink and yellow reverse spiders and always around structure such as an over hanging tree or log jam. As I was driving home past the north Everett flats a!
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t high tide( while stuck in traffic) I noticed several fish jumping in the new estuary that was constructed. I had never seen this before and it made me wonder if they were sea runs coming in and out with the tide. If so, the project would be considered a success in my book for creating more habitat for migrating fish. Next week, the Boggie and calawah.
Tight lines,
--- PATRICK PETERSEN
