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I know there are some very avid and knowledgable src fishermen on this site. Most of you seem to be down in S. Sound. What about N. Sound, B'ham area etc.? Any big src fans in this area?

I have questions on their habits like when do they head upstream to spawn?

When they are in the rivers do you folks catch them on drys or wet flies?

It also seems to me like they should be catch and release in fresh water as well as salt. Anyone know why that is not so or did I read this wrong?

Mark

 

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Kerry and Saltchuck,

Thanks for your replys. Being a lifetime westsider it is hard for me to understand why I have not gone after src's. It sounds like its one of the afficianados preferred piscatorial pursuits.

I was talking to my neighbor here in B'ham and he seems to think the oldtimers really overfished them in the Nooksack. Says they used to be in there in good numbers and size but he does not think that is currently the case.

I will have to make a point of finding out later this summer. Since there is basically no summer steelie run here I will wait until later and target them alone prior to silvers.

Seems like it would be a good thing if they were turned into a catch and release fish everywhere.

Mark

 

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Rockfish,

Your post should make most of us mad who hate to see a resource like src's handled this way. Like I have said I am just beginning to learn about this fishery but it sure seems ludicrous to have any take home fishery of src's.

How do we go about pressuring for a change in regs.?

Mark

 

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searun or Mr. Les Johnson is a modest man. He says he has written only the one book. The title of that book should you be so fortunate as to find it is Sea-Run Cutthroat Trout 1971 updated in 79 as Sea-Run.

The Bellingham Library did not have either one but it did come up with another book he co-authored with Bruce Ferguson and Pat Trotter titled Fly Fishing for Pacific Salmon 1985.

This in itself is an amazing book. Just getting into it, but I highly recommend it for anyone who wishes to cut years off their saltwater fly fishing education/experience.

searun and his co-authors discuss the history of flyfishing for salmon, life histories of our salmon species, a dissertation on feed (excellent), finding the fish, techniques, patterns, gear and on and on including ethics.

I can't wait to find his works on sea-run cutts.

Thank you Les for coming on to this forum.

Mark