My wife and I stayed in La Connor over the last weekend and I got in several fishing trips. Driving over to La Connor on Saturday, I noted the lower Skagit to be running quite white from all the warm weather. I decided to bag the planned float to the bay as the water was far too dark for flies I thought. I hit Ala spit in the late afternoon on Saturday to many fish in the area, but almost every one including the gear folks to be going fishless except for the folks that were snagging them. All I saw seemed to be pinks. I got up Sunday morning and fished from about 6 to 830 at Ala Spit. By the time I left there were probably 100 folks and about 6 or 8 fly fishing. It seemed almost everyone but me was catching. I spoke to 2 guys fly fishing that swore the ticket was a hot pink concoction with dumbbell eyes that was about 4" long and appeared to be totally fishair. I ran into another guy that was fighting a fish, and he was quite nice offering me one of his salmon streamers with an emerald green wing of krystal flash. The fly on his line was chewed to within one fish of the end of its life. I ended up putting on a red/white deceiver and catching a sculpin. All I can say is that Ala Spit seems HOT in the mornings right now. We hit Pass Lake and caught one bluegill and LLR what was probably a small trout on a black woolly worm using a Type 3 line trolling the shoreline. I spoke to one guy who said that he had caught 3 little ones and a big one trolling a brown woolly bugger deep. I fished Possession Point this afternoon as the tide was rising, saw a few cutthroat jump, but saw no real action. It seemed like one boat about 150 yards off the point caught a nice fish, as they seemed to be spending a good bit of time fighting it. (Les, you can forward this to your SSFF group.) Rob
