Willy, I did try a small popper, but it wasn't small enough. Besides, the fish look as if they are feeding on top, but they are not. Their food is just under the surface. I have had my best results by tying small pink crazy charlies (a bonefish pattern), adding a few pink krystal flash strands for a tail and small bead or lead eyes on a #10 Mustad 3407 hook. I fish it dead drift (fly first, downtide, feeding it to the silvers) on a slime line.
Leland. >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.
