is anyone hooking up with fresh chrome hogs?
Were they playing tough to getSaw 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.
Hog! I assume you got her on a traditional atlantic salmon fly?
You've noticed? I find myself becoming ever more selective about where and when I will go.I guess the reality is they're is just not that many left to fish for these days. Brutal
Wild bows on the swing in your intimate home waters...a magnificent creature! Truly a mini chrome pig. Trout grabs are awesome!Chrome mini pig on the swing today.
Always fun to encounter native bows in our local streams.
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You just love saying "pigs". I'm on to you.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...
Yep, the HB's came in this last week according to reports. It'll eat...Not caught on the fly and not a pig but found a few hatchery brats this last weekend on the pin.
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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.View attachment 157581
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.
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.HB's are around. This one took me to within 25 feet of reaching the backing and leapt once. He also nutted everywhere.
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Hatchery or Wild 34" is a pretty sweet fish. Approaching pig status!View attachment 157722 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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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.