Author Archives: raincoastguides

The interesting thing about cuthroat, or one of them

The general consensus about fly fishing for coastal cutthroat is that if you are throwing a reverse spider, and they are not eating it, they aren’t there.. This week the caddis hatch started up, and trout appeared where they haven’t … read more »

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Bugs, and rain

Rain in the summer?  Who would of guessed but it looks like we might get a few more drops.  Awesome.  The steelhead, which were suffering the great August boredom have all ready begun to phase into their Autumn cranky.  The … read more »

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Cool Mornings

Leaving the house at 4:30 am in a T-Shirt, it occurred to me that the warmest part of our summer was almost over. I love summer, and I love summer fishing, it is my favorite time to be a fishing … read more »

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Trick to swinging kings

Bring the crappy camera. Well, I finally managed a few good,…better than good, days of summer run steelhead fishing. And we are finding odd ball salmon of every stripe around. We should just have summer kings, Coho, and sockeye but … read more »

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Awesome fishing!

The catching on the other hand has been a bit slow.  I had a tough week, we found a few steelhead, most fell off.  We found some nice cutthroat, resident rainbows, and a few big incidental bull trout.  But I … read more »

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Open seat, open days, mixed bag

I did not have any great steelhead fishing this week.  We did have some O.K. steelhead fishing, and some good cutthroat fishing, and we caught some nice bull trout.  Most days we found a little of everything. On the 25th … read more »

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Back in Forks and ready to catch steelhead

Summer fish workshop, It’s tricky, but very worth it.  We will go out and sight fish for some summer fish. Summer steelhead and salmon are all over the northwest, but they are hard to find, hard to spot, and especially … read more »

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