getting ready to hit pass lake

[jp66]

I just picked up a super fatcat and am dying to fish pass lake. My outfit is a 9 foot 5 weight with a spool of floating line and a spool with a #3 10 foot sink tip. I know im going to need a full sink line and any suggestions would be helpful. Ive got some different colored buggers i was going to try and also fly options would help. thanks

[stavipa]

Thick, olive flashy buggers or a black egg-sucking leech would be my suggestions for a good place to start. Fish slow and deep (tough with only a sink-tip) with the occasional quick twitch.

[cuponoodle breakfast]

Chironomids.

[Blake Stiller]

If i were you i would tie 10' of leader to that 10' of sink tip, put an indicator right where the floating meets the sinking and fish chironimids. hell you could do it without and indicator and just watch your line for the strike. I havent been catching much on leeches and streamers and what not lately. I have been having 10 fish days on chironimids though, in a matter of a couple hours.

[ceviche]

Chironomids.

And chironomid emergers for the risers.

[Porter]

olive, olive and black leeches w/ weighted heads (help get it down deeper). I have never had a problem with the sink tip 3 at Pass but I believe my sink tips were a little longer than 10'.

[Irafly]

I fished Pass on Saturday and I only talked to one gentleman who did well on buggers fishing a full sink way down at about 18'.

My friend Christy and I picked up about 10 each in about 5 1/2 hours of fishing and we seemed to be on the upper end of the catch ratio (Although that does not count the one gentleman in the nice wooden pram who caught over 20 in the same time frame.)

We were fishing very deep, 18' to 22' feet of water using a blood worm mostly. Check out http://www.washingtonlakes.com/TopoMaps/9795941_PassMapSkagit.gif try the middle South shore where the 20' line is closest to the shore and just opposite that as well on the North shore. The far East corner exactly opposite the launch can produce as well.

If you are going to chironomid make sure you use a slip indicator or just use your hemostats to hook onto your fly and drop your sink tip down until the fly hits the bottom, pull in about a foot of your fly line and just fish right off the tip of your rod.

Good luck.

Ira..

[Blake Stiller]

fished pass on sunday and caught 7 in about 2.5 hours. It was slow fishing but the weather was killer. All on chironimids