Re: Salmon at Sekiu

[Andy Towell]

I thought that I would add my two cents to Patrick's report.   The beech fishing on Saturday was entertaining, with most of the takes occurring in the final 20'. The hot combo for me was a herring fly on a slime line. One unfortunate thing to note, We landed 5 unclipped (wild) fish to 2 hatchery fish on Saturday afternoon. A group of buzz-bombers down the beach from us miraculously managed to land about 11 "unmarked" fish in a row. On the 11th fish, I was close enough to see the adipose, so I mentioned that the fishery was not open for wild fish. This sent the lot of them to back to their trucks, but not before the last offender let loose with a diatribe about how city folk and Indian's were ruining the fishing. He also used a few other choice words to describe our character. I guess he does not remember that the beach fishery in Clallam Bay has been closed in the past and did not know that the DEW uses a mix-and match policy with marking that lets them guestimate the number of wild fish impacted by hooking mortality by measuring the ratio of marked fish vs. unmarked released/returned. If people want to abuse the system, it will ultimately result in closures for all of us (sorry for the diatribe, the "rules don't apply to me" attitude of poachers gets me going..., especially the reactions that you get from these guys when you call them on it.)   Sunday was also a blast. We hooked the majority of the fish bucktailing, as we were not getting consistent action with the stripped flies (Probably 2-1 bucktailing over casting.) We never did try a popper, so I will have to get busy at the vise to tonight! One question for Leland and Brian -Did you ever see fish working the bait on the surface? We only encountered one bait-ball for the afternoon, and that was on the run back to Olson's after all our gear was stored. I was curious if the fish were just feeding up in the column more on Friday or whether the addition of poppers to the arsenal would have added more takes on the stripped fly.   Tight Lines,   Andy     ----- Original Message ----- From: PATRICK PETERSEN To: waflyfishers Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 12:58 PM Subject: Salmon at Sekiu Hello list members,    Fished from the beach Friday night at Sekiu with a some success. It is the first time I actually landed several Coho with in 20' feet of shore. The fish were hooking up sometimes right at the end of my rod tip and the takes were violent and powerful with long fast runs often times taking me into the backing. I put my pontoon boat in and rowed back and forth next to the kelp beds just off the beach  till dark casting and stripping a pink and white buck tail with a few more suicidal fish in tow. What a way to start out the weekend. Early Saturday morning  Andy Towell(List Member) and I Fished the Sol Duc for silvers and unlike two weeks earlier we didn't even touch a fish which was a total disappointment since we were expecting a day of great fishing due to the rains last week. The water was clearing up and dropping fast. We were on the bank at 5:30AM and watched six boats drift by in the first hour and a half. The hardware guys picked off a f! ! ew with spinners but that was it. After breakfast we were off again to Clallum bay. This time over in the east bay where we were successful once again. There is a lot of bait swimming in the bay and even more Coho in chase the last few weeks. The best was saved for last on this trip though, in  a rented boat from Olsens, $50.00 for a half day, we buck tailed our flies behind the bout for less than ten minutes and wham! another five pounder. In about four and a half hours Andy and I released at least twenty five fish between the two of us and had at least that many more takes. It's too bad we didn't run into Leland and his gang but it sounds like the fishing was similar, Great.     --- PATRICK PETERSEN --- [EMAIL PROTECTED]