>From: "Preston Singletary" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: "Washington Fly fishers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: New Year's Day Fishing
>Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 10:28:07 -0800
>
>Tom,
>While there are some dollies in the Skykomish and the Stillaguamish, those
>rivers can't compare to the Sauk and Skagit in numbers, or size, of fish.
>In a recent conversation with WDFW biologist Curt Kraemer (who was largely
>responsible for the current 20-inch minimum-size limit on dollies) I was
>told that as recently as ten years ago the average number of Dolly Varden
>redds in the Skagit drainage was 3.7 per mile; last year's survey, in
>September, showed a tenfold increase over that. The average was actually
>37
>per mile! The biggest one I've actually caught was nearly six pounds, but
>Curt said there are larger, much larger, ones to be found there. Leland
>and
>I talked to two different individuals on New Year's Day who both claimed to
>have recently caught seven-pounders.
>As Leland said above, he was using his 6-wt. two-hander and a type III sink
>tip. I've been using a 6-wt single-hander and a 13-foot, type IV sink tip,
>which was a bit of overkill for the very low and relatively clear
>conditions
>we encountered on Tuesday. I've been fishing rabbit strip string leech
>patterns with dumbbell eyes, some of them as much as 3 or four inches long
>when the water is murky. Under clearer conditions, more conventional
>imitations of salmon fry and parr can be extremely effective. I use a
>variation of the Thunder Creek pattern tied with a red fox-squirrel wing,
>and when the chum and humpy fry begin to hatch in the spring (if we're
>going
>to ever have a spring c-and-r season again) small, sparse patterns like Les
>Johnson's and Dan Lemaich's Thorne River Emerger can be deadly.
>Preston
>
Preston, Leland,
Thanks for all your info. I've tied up a bunch of beadhead bunny leeches
lately, in black and olive, and some with a maribou collar in purple or
olive. I also have some tan and olive Zuddlers--I assume all these would
work?
Thanks again,
Tom
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