Welcome to the first edition of my newsletter.
I hope that you find this an interesting and occasionally amusing way to keep up with the best fishing on the Olympic Peninsula.
So Far, So Good.
After spotty spring steelhead fishing, July and the first three weeks of August offered some of the best salt water dry fly fishing for sea-run cutthroat I have ever seen. A single angler raising forty decent fish to the dry was not uncommon, and 3 to 6 pound Coho made regular appearances to the same flies. It was a season I will remember for a long time.
The end of September beginning of October river fishing brought daily encounters with steelhead to dries and lots of nice cutthroat to fill in the gaps.
For the late fall in an effort to deal with the high water I spent more time than usual pulling plugs (GASP) and catching ludicrous numbers of large bright salmon. The few brave souls who came out to fly fish despite high water did quite well.
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And now, Winter Steelhead!
It seems things are off to a pretty good start with the hatchery winter runs (that’s what’s called guarded optimism). The few times in the last weeks that the rivers have been low enough to fish there seemed to be decent numbers of fish. If the weather follows its normal pattern things should become increasingly stable through December. For those who just can’t wait however, there is an option. If you’re willing to hike a little, and maybe bushwhack a little, and perhaps at times claw your way tearfully up cold muddy canyon walls there are steelhead to be caught RIGHT NOW!
If you want to try it on your own look for smaller rivers with relatively short drainages (check the regs to be sure its open). These waters can clear extremely rapidly after a rain. I have arrived at small water like this and found it completely blown out, but after waiting just a few hours had it clear enough to provide excellent fishing.
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