salt water hopper

[fish farmer]

Short story short
Fished today in my boat
Drove out of Gig Harbor took a left
Tried a few new patterns I tied on some cutts
They followed the patterns laughing
Saw a cutt hit something on surface
Looked in fly box saw a Joe's hopper and said what the hell
Cast said fly out, stripped in pretty fast, sure enough, hooked up,
Proceeded to hook,land, and ldr six or seven cutts
most took when fly was moving, one or two took on pause
It was so cool to see them hit the hopper as I waked it across the surface.
If anyone out there is tired of throwing clousers day and night for cutts
Try a popper or better yet a hopper.

:thumb:

[Dizane]

Nice day! Most anything waked across the surface has worked for me.

Dane

[salt dog]

That's great FF, really thinking outside the box on that. Either that or just desperate. :) Sounds like you had a great outing.

[one eyed poacher]

yeah man! sound like one of those incidents where grace, mastery and caprice of the red gods (LUCK!) all came together. I'm still waiting for it to all come together in the tidewater up here in the northland. Skated a mudler over waking and jumping fish (coho) hurding a ball of baitfish (candlefish?)at dawn.

Initiated my hunt with a long leader stealthy swing from the outer reaches into the action, a few inquisitive follows but most of the scene was fish moving aside or jumping as the muddler came over the quarry. Started off skateing the surface, moved on to a sunk swing and strip- did my best imitation of a wounded baitfish (ala black and striped bass) with every fly I could. changed up like a one women strip show-emptied the box. NADA. A noble skunk fishing over feeding like behavior. A skunk none the less. Any more tips folks?

I'm baffled by the tidewater stageing tight lipped mofoho coho!

[one eyed poacher]

yeah man! sound like one of those incidents where grace, mastery and caprice of the red gods (LUCK!) all came together. I'm still waiting for it to all come together in the tidewater up here in the northland. Skated a mudler over waking and jumping fish (coho) hurding a ball of baitfish (candlefish?)at dawn.

Initiated my hunt with a long leader stealthy swing from the outer reaches into the action, a few inquisitive follows but most of the scene was fish moving aside or jumping as the muddler came over the quarry. Started off skateing the surface, moved on to a sunk swing and strip- did my best imitation of a wounded baitfish (ala black and striped bass) with every fly I could. changed up like a one women strip show-emptied the box. NADA. A noble skunk fishing over feeding like behavior. A skunk none the less. Any more tips folks?

I'm baffled by the tidewater stageing tight lipped mofoho coho!