Are Your Ready For Lakes
Local fly tyer John Gort let us look at his Cliff’s Bugger Beast as he gets ready for spring lake fishing.
This should give us all a ton of motivation at the fly tying vise to get ready for our favorite fisheries.
Doug Rose, A Celebration…
Doug Rose, A Celebration Of A Life Well Lived and Fished
A chance to Talk Story with friends.
Sunday April 7, 2013, 1 p.m.
Meet at Indian Island Park, Scenic Route 116 , across from Entrance To Naval Base Port Hadlock, wa. 98339.
Please bring: your own lunch and beverage for yourself and extra if you would like to share, your rod and reel and your version of a Keta Rose or a fly of your choice with name and contact information.
Indian Island and Marrowstone Island were places that Doug often fished for Sea-Run Cutthroat and Coho Salmon.
See you Sunday
2013 Summer Salmon Forecasts
WDFW just released the salmon forecasts for 2013. We will be breaking down the numbers over the next few weeks here on this blog but we wanted to post a few numbers to get your blood pumping for this summer’s salmon fishing.
6,229,129 – Puget Sound pink salmon forecast
8,926,000 – Fraser River pink salmon forecast
That’s 15 MILLION pink salmon!
This means there will be a ton of pink salmon from Neah Bay, down the Strait of Juan de Fuca and all the way into South Puget Sound for fly fishermen this summer.
501,100 – Columbia River coho forecast.
562,138 – Washington Coast coho forecast.
882,134 – Puget Sound coho forecast.
These coho numbers are good and if they are correct there should be great fishing from Neah Bay to Port Townsend in the Strait this summer. The offshore fisheries should also be as good as they’ve been in years.
Stay tuned for more details on these forecasts.
Salmon Fishing Puget Sound at Sunrise
Resident Rainbows
Sometimes we get a nice surprise on the end of our lines while out steelhead fishing. Whether swinging or nymphing there is always the chance for one of our resident fish to make a slow day winter steelhead fishing a whole lot better.
Besides being fun to catch our resident rainbow fish are important for our steelhead fisheries. Recent studies have shown that up to 40% of the returning steelhead have at least one parent that was a resident rainbow. Pretty hard to believe but just another reason to treat them gently, keep them in the water, and release them quickly.
Here’s a recent resident rainbow caught on one of the Strait streams that closed January 31st.
Strait of Juan de Fuca Resident Rainbow
West End Regulation Change
WDFW Rule Change for Hoko River
Action: Close to fishing – from boats and both banks – the portion of the Hoko River from the hatchery fish ladder downstream for 100 feet.
Effective Dates: Dec. 3 through Dec. 31, 2012
Species affected: Returning adult steelhead
Location: Hoko River at the Makah tribal fish hatchery
Reason for action: The Hoko Hatchery is far short of broodstock program needs. Closing the portion of the river outside the fish ladder will allow steelhead to aggregate outside the ladder and move up into the facility without disturbance from fishing activity.
Other information: The closed portion of the bank area on the northwest side of the Hoko River (opposite the hatchery) is the bank area between the posted signs.
Information Contact: Mike Gross; (360) 249-1210.
Finally….
After a long wait and really low water things are finally changing. Looking forward to fishing it on the drop.
