I've noticed that about dollies, too (in my limited experience, anyway). The last dolly I caught first swiped at an egg-sucking leach I was swinging. There were salmon rolling around in the same pool. I then switched to a baitfish pattern and that's when he hit.
The fly you mentioned sounds somewhat familiar, is this the string leech? Tan and olive are good colors, as I recall from posts this time last year. I picture it as being tied Clouser-style on a 4x-long hook. Am I close?
Tom
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Subject: Bull Trout
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 21:23:27 -0800
The Sauk seems to be a bit slower that the Skagit for bulls right now. I
expect it to get better over the next month or so. I suspect that the warm,
low-water conditions of the late summer and fall have delayed spawning
somewhat. I've been fishing rabbit strip patterns with bead-chain eyes and
several of the fish that I've caught recently have been real beauties, with
pale orange-pink bellies and very pronounced white stripes on the forward
edges of the pectoral, ventral and anal fins. On the day after Thanksgiving
I caught one that must have gone a good five pounds.
I usually look for the same sort of water where one would expect to find
steelhead. Right now, they seem to be hanging around the spawning chums
but, being opportunistic feeders they seem to be perfectly willing to whack
anything that looks like a baitfish.
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