Saw a couple pigs in Bremerton earlier but they weren't very chrome.
Tried swinging my lucky Unscratched Scratch Ticket fly but couldn't get a take. Probably should have worked then again with a Shipyard Paystub, but I elected to continue on and look for some players.
Saw a couple pigs in Bremerton earlier but they weren't very chrome.
Tried swinging my lucky Unscratched Scratch Ticket fly but couldn't get a take. Probably should have worked then again with a Shipyard Paystub, but I elected to continue on and look for some players.
Good casting/swinging practice on the Sky the last couple of weeks but no takers. Rain coming tomorrow and the river should rise. Looks like it’s coming down on Monday before another increase in flow Tuesday. Wednesday and beyond might be fishy. Fingers crossed.
I get the sense that most guys in this forum either don’t fish for steelies much, fish for them and don’t catch them, or , perhaps both! I guess the reality is they’re is just not that many left to fish for these days. Brutal
It’s just been tuff sledding so far. I think the best is yet to come for this season and maybe those of us that pursue the thick chrome pigs will have some success to share in the coming months...
It's just been tuff sledding so far. I think the best is yet to come for this season and maybe those of us that pursue the thick chrome pigs will have some success to share in the coming months...
My first ever outing today....no fish (as expected) but it was beautiful. My casting was first timer agricultural - lots of room for improvement so hopefully can get another trip soon to a more promising location.
Nice hatchery hack job. Dorsal and adipose were clipped. Perhaps that explains the lackluster fight it put up. From set to shore in like 3 mins. Jeez.
Imagine being all of the poor steelhead that ended up as mortalities from seals, predatory fish, etc. They got beat buy a gal without a dorsal fin. Talk about embarrassing.
Nice hatchery hack job. Dorsal and adipose were clipped. Perhaps that explains the lackluster fight it put up. From set to shore in like 3 mins. Jeez.
Imagine being all of the poor steelhead that ended up as mortalities from seals, predatory fish, etc. They got beat buy a gal without a dorsal fin. Talk about embarrassing.
Sadly, that fish is also a shameful embarrassment of our mismanaged fisheries. You did the right thing by delivering its last rights and putting it out of its misery. Soon, you will do what is best....consume and excrete it. Then and only then will this meat product be rightfully processed. Brutal.
I'd put money on those being a particular N Puget Sound system summer run. We would always call those "swinters." Summer steelhead doing final migration during winter steelhead time.
Summer steelhead would enter late June-July 4th on average and migrate through the mainstem and forks and hold until fall. Depending on fall rains, late september/october we would catch quite a few of these summer fish migrating up to the hatchery. By the end of the chum run and into December, the leftovers were those that had spent their fat reserves and were approaching the end of their life cycle.
Cool to see those are still around. Can be a fun fish to catch during summer/ early fall.
There are a few around, I blanked, but my buddy found this hatchery buck on the center pin. I'm highly jelous of his drag free drifts. It got the rock shampoo. Taped at 34in
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There are a few around, I blanked, but my buddy found this hatchery buck on the center pin. I'm highly jelous of his drag free drifts. It got the rock shampoo. Taped at 34in
Since we are all sharing our centerpin caught fish on a fly fishing site, here is one from a few weeks ago. 31" 12lb hen. Fight was short, she came in close early, and death rolled like crazy, wrapping the leader around her mouth clamping it shut.
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Since we are all sharing our centerpin caught fish on a fly fishing site, here is one from a few weeks ago. 31" 12lb hen. Fight was short, she came in close early, and death rolled like crazy, wrapping the leader around her mouth clamping it shut.
If there weren't pics of gear-caught steelhead, this site would have a lot less steelhead pics. . .just sayin,
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