Puget Sound

[sroffe]

About that time!
SF

From my perch above Area 11, it was calm as glass. Going to have to head down to the boat house and prep it for another season. Got a new line I want to try.

 

[Stonefish]

And here's a Q for you Puget Sound experts: saw lots of sand lance today, but in addition to the expected ~2" size class there were also lots of big fat 5 inchers.
Do sand lance live more than a year?

https://www.dnr.wa.gov/Publications/em_fs13_021.pdf

 

[jasmillo]

Cutts were pretty much awol today so we changed gears and went looking for coho. Fish were super spread out, and not showing themselves much, but we found enough to have fun.

And I may have spotted a weird little school of small, darkish fish with weird marks running down their back at one point this afternoon

Damn, and I am just starting my deck rebuild this weekend.

Piss poor timing on my part...

 

[Stonefish]

From my perch above Area 11, it was calm as glass. Going to have to head down to the boat house and prep it for another season. Got a new line I want to try.

What line Sam?
SF

 

[sroffe]

What line Sam?
SF

I'm trying the Cortland Compact Intermediate shooting head on my 6wt.

 

[Nick Clayton]

First half of the day was foggy and I couldn't get warm. Second half of the day was blue skies and wishing I wasn't wearing so many layers. Gotta love the sound in March

 

[Northern]

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Whoa! That turned out pretty cool!

 

[Nick Clayton]

Whoa! That turned out pretty cool!

Thanks to those lasers you were throwing!

 

[Northern]

Thanks to those lasers you were throwing!

Well, I found the cast really snaps-to smartly if I stand on the line just right...

 

[Greg Armstrong]

First half of the day was foggy and I couldn't get warm. Second half of the day was blue skies and wishing I wasn't wearing so many layers. Gotta love the sound in March




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That’s a wall hanger photo. Nicely done.

 

[sroffe]

Cool photo Nick.

 

[Bob Newman]

That photo has a surreal look to it Nick. And this is before having a shot or two of scotch

 

[bk paige]

Almost like Van Gogh! Any filters or just raw?

A very cool shot Nick!

 

[bolson]

Took a mental health day on Friday, fine returns. My best fishing day of the winter and I thank you all for the cryptic clues I’ve gathered here seeking these amazing trout for the first time.

 

[keekster4504]

I made a chum fry pilgrimage down to a new-to-me south Sound beach yesterday and had some pretty wild weather to contend with. The day alternated between calm and bluebird to November windstorm level squalls. While it made for some frustrating casting, it also resulted in some pretty spectacular rainbows. This was the best of them:

The fishing was pretty tough in the morning... basically just one fish rising that we threw just about every chum fry imitation we had at to no avail. I finally managed to trick it with a black Knudsen's spider with a dark duck flank hackle. This one had really pretty pink cheeks that the photo doesn't really do justice to.


Once the inlet started emptying out the fishing really picked up. It took a while but we had an otter and bald eagle to keep us company while we waited and several more rainbows, too. Most of the fish were in the 6-12" range but there were a few big boys thrown in there, too. They all seemed to like my simple little wood duck chum fry imitation


I hadn't caught a fish since early December, so it was a nice day of fishing to break the dry spell.