I had my best day ever in the salt, in numbers, on New Year's Day a few years ago down in the South Sound. There was snow on the ground and the air temps were in the low 20's, but just as Leland so aptly described, there were pods of small resident silvers smutting on the surface in great abandon.
I was literally hooking fish on every cast for a time, some right at my waders. The story does not have a completely happy ending - I forgot my gloves and after a while, my hands were so numb I started losing motor control. I started snapping off points on my hook on my backcast, and my fingers were so useless I struggled to even tie a new fly on. You can't believe the level of frustration when you are in the middle of an absolutely awesome feeding frenzy of fish and you are so cold that you can't even tie on a new fly! Leland, have you developed a floating amphipod or euphasid yet? I wonder if a little pink popper in a size 16 would work? :) -----Original Message----- From: Leland Miyawaki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 4:12 PM To: Waflyfishers Subject: Re: Salt Action? Cutts have been at the South Sound beaches bulking up prior to heading up for their yearly river bacchanel and schools of resident silvers have been reported along the Narrows porpoising for euphasids and amphipods. I've been out some, but not much, and have been doing good, not great. Leland.
