Greensteel,

Your profile shows you live in Tacoma...there is excellent cutthroat flyfishing close by. As was already suggested, look for bays and inlets with rocky shorelines and small creeks dumping into them. Timing the tides can dramatically add to your success...I've found the middle two hours of an incoming tide to be most productive, especially if there is a minus-low tide (e.g. low tide -1.57') and a strong high tide (e.g. high tide +16.25); the greater the difference between the two, the better the action appears to be. Next best tide for me seems to be the 1st two hours of the ebb beginning just after peak high.

A light pink colored #8 shrimp pattern seems to be doing the trick right now, at least in the area I fish. Matter of fact, the resident silvers still seem to be on this pattern as well although they should be swinging on over to baitfish (white/peacock clousers) patterns right about now. Retrieve for the shrimp pattern should be 2 or 3 quick strips followed by about 10-15 second pause. Strip is only about 4" and should resemble shaking down a thermometer. This will impart action that is a reasonable resemblance to the real thing. The take seems to most often occur during the pause.

Cutts cruise the shoreline in the inlets and bays...don't make the mistake of charging out into chest-deep water and casting your arm out for distance. Fish the shoreline/close-in water first and slowly fan the waters in a semicircle extending each successive cast out (hopefully, that made some sort of sense to you.)

Was going to suggest several spots for you to try nearby, but couldn't email you directly since you didn't leave an email address. Oh well.