Tag Archives: Olympic Peninsula fly fishing guide
Fall Coho, how to
Catching fall salmon on flies has long been a side show here to winter steelhead, and the reason is no mystery. Although fall coho can fight as hard (or harder), then their cousins the steelhead, and come in vastly larger … read more »
Better management on the Hoh
The Hoh River’s iconic summer king salmon run has been in steep decline now for many years. The last two years our spring fishery, and this year most of our summer fishery, had to be closed to protect these fish. … read more »
Dry Fly fishing for summer steelhead on the Olympic Peninsula
A dry fly steelhead post, and the fishing is good, but salmon fishing has started. Most days now we are getting a few steelhead, a few salmon, soon it will be salmon season in full swing. The horrible truth about … read more »
Too much stuff to catch
A little twitch, a little swing, a little strip, a big foam dry, means hooking summer steelhead and cutthroat, and the occasional coho. When its mostly Coho mixed with trout then we strip streamers. If its mostly summer steelhead mixed … read more »
Great news on the Hoh, open dates
Days open? Yep. Catching fish? Yep. Summer steelhead, yep, the trout are back from……where ever they were. The summer salmon seem to have given way seamlessly to fall coho and early kings. Right now jack kings abound…everywhere. Maybe the Quillayute … read more »
Just imagine
What to do about global warming. Ok, first, yes, sure, drive less, elect public officials that will help lead the nation in a responsible direction, etc. But while your doing that, don’t forget to get some sunscreen, a big fuckin … read more »
Sockeye, Kings,Silvers(?!) and trout
In this weather its a morning bite or nothing. The trout fishing has been pretty good, the salmon fishing has been hit or miss. Twitching jigs has been good, but getting them to latch on to streamers with any consistency … read more »
