The fish was a bright 7# hen with plenty of sea-lice still on her. It was getting late, and I needed to get home. But I'll be back in the morning for some more fun! Gosh, I love the feel of a salmon on the flyrod. Thanks for the report, Patrick.
Sean
PATRICK PETERSEN wrote:
If you like fishing for salmon on the fly then you will be please to know that the lower Stilly is chalked full of eager and aggressive Humpies. This last weekend Andy and I went to the tide water of the Stilly but had to search elsewhere due to the rains late last week. The lower river was blown because of the Deer Creek slide till yesterday and even then it was low visibility but there were fish coming out of the water by the dozens. Quite a sight to see them in the tail outs literally by the hundreds and supposedly there are even more yet to come in according to WDFW. Nice bright fish with some males starting to show their humped backs and even a few early coho are coming in. We did witness a large Coho that had been hooked and released much to our surprise. We used weighted pink flies on dry lines which worked very well in enticing strikes. Out of the twenty or so fish caught yesterday only one was foul hooked in the belly. If we had used sinking lines in the sam! ! e area with down turned hooks I'm sure it would have been a snag fest, Like some of the guys next to us. Remember, weighted flies, good...Sinking lines, bad...My biased opinion of coarse. Hooray for humpies!--- PATRICK PETERSEN--- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
