I think therein lies a key point, not just proximity to salt, but also lack of pressure and/or exposure to predatory influence, man or other.

I have had wonderful days catching silvers on the fly. Mostly in cases similar to what you describe. My local streams are 3-4 days from the salt for most fish, and many show up having felt, or feel pressure shortly after arrival. As in WA, lots of the biters seem to get weeded out early on, and the more tight lipped fish mill around in the meat holes for a while staring at spinners and spoons all day as new fish roll in and perpetuate the cycle.

Showing them something they haven't seen, or in a way they haven't seen it definitely seems to work. That having been said, I have had more days than I can count pulling out every trick on the book trying to get stingy WA silvers to bite. Sometimes they just don't.

Knudson's Spider is a new one for me though I will have to give that a try shortly after hell freezes over and I fish for silvers in WA again!

Ooooh. Fancy!

Reverse spiders looks really good in the water. I have yet to catch a fish on one, but in the time I have been fishing them, I haven't gotten a coho on anything else, either. I have been fishing them a lot lately. All that movement, in front of the right fish, has got to equal play time.

I like it. The ol' zig when everyone else zags. I'll give it a go.

coho hate stuff that wants to eat their children. Try egg sucking leeches, but use a Trout Bead as the egg threaded ahead of a regular BIG black or purple woolly bugger.....it looks more realistic than a chennile "egg" and it helps the fly sink. Another trick is a mouse brown or dark olive mottled barbell eyed bunny leech, stripped, zigged, zagged, pulled, darted, dropped etc through a run. Make it look like a living critter. If they hit it they crush it....nothing subtle. Even anorexic silvers will whack these at times. Cherry bomb bucks DETEST anything trying to eat their kids, but those are for entertainment only and must be released......no smokehouse !!

A pegged glass trout bead a half inch above, a black n green leech, or bugger kills hos in my neck of the woods when they are on the bite. But like everyone says... Coho are a tuff nut to crack. 'specially when throwin fur...

I wish you could toss wogs in this one little piss trickle stream, but these particular fish are so g.d. spooky by now, anything but stealth casts/presentations gets you busted by the fish. Even raising your rod tip to roll back out will peel fish outta the pack! But there again, I am fishing an "in between" time right now... with the hatchery turds all but booty, just waitin for legit hi finners to show their hook'd noses.

In low (low) light try using flies tied with glow in the dark materials.

You may be surprised...

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