#67793 - 07/30/02 07:06 PM
Your most productive fishery!?
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Juvenille at Sea
Registered: 12/05/01
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Loc: Washington
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#67795 - 07/31/02 04:20 PM
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Juvenille at Sea
Registered: 12/05/01
Posts: 124
Loc: Washington
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Good ideas, Mike.
One question: what's the peak 2 week period for odd-year pink salmon fishing at Hoodsport?
Thanks!
Glad you're back from your vacation.
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#67796 - 07/31/02 04:47 PM
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River Nutrients
Registered: 05/06/01
Posts: 2991
Loc: Nisqually
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Chums at Hoodsport anytime in November.
Pinks off of Mukilteo the 3rd weekend in August and Labor Day weekend.
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#67798 - 07/31/02 10:30 PM
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Repeat Spawner
Registered: 02/28/02
Posts: 1203
Loc: Marine Area 13
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You can find Pinks the first week after 4 July (ood years) in the Canal. My favorite river is the "Dosie" just after mid month. They are a scream on a 5wt. You'll find them below the 101 bridge/state park on the far ledge and/or slightly deeper water. Or, you can fish the flats right at the mouth.
Downriggin'
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#67800 - 08/01/02 03:26 PM
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Juvenille at Sea
Registered: 12/05/01
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Loc: Washington
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We got Skagit pinks every 3rd cast or so last year (every day we fished it, and we fished it maybe 5 days) once we located pinks breaking the surface of the water every 30 seconds (or more often) over an area that's maybe 100' long. They moved each day. Besides that, the trick was to use 2" bubble-gum colored twist-tail plastic worms ("grubs") on 1/4 oz. unpainted jig heads. Then let it FREE-FALL for 2.5 seconds or so, then reel in half-a-turn or so, then repeat CONSTANTLY. A boat was a "must" for the best fishing!! Sedro Wooley area is where we fished.
Didn't fly-fish much there, but on the Harrison River I've got pinks virtually EVERY cast at times, in slower water, using a fly called a "Sockeye"....it's on kman.com, and you get what they refer to as the "red" color, even though it is actually very PINK (gotta be pink in reality, since no other color usually even comes remotely close to the same success rate.) The key is to let it FALL for about 2.5 seconds, just like the jig I mention above.
DaleD
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#67801 - 08/04/02 01:16 PM
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Juvenille at Sea
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#67802 - 08/04/02 02:51 PM
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Smolt
Registered: 04/20/02
Posts: 98
Loc: seattle
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as far as in washington i'm still looking.
my favorite stretch of water to fish is in montana, one of the first three damded lakes on the missouri river. holter lake, gates of the mountains area, hands down, is my favorite lake. consistant rainbows over 20", and monster walley. when the fishings slow your in the middle of one of the most beautiful places around.
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#67803 - 08/04/02 07:21 PM
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Returning Adult
Registered: 06/17/01
Posts: 320
Loc: Grand Coulee,Wa. 99133
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Another incredable spot: RAINBOW ALLEY Upper Babine river as it comes out of Babine Lake Near Smithers BC. Rainbow till your arm drops off! Use stoneflies and alevins in August. Most fish 3# to 6# and STRONG. C&R.
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#67804 - 08/07/02 07:56 AM
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Juvenille at Sea
Registered: 05/02/02
Posts: 136
Loc: Maple Falls, Wa
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Hey Dale, Don't forget Paulina, and Wickiup Lakes for big Browns. Especially after first ice out Last of April to the First part of May. I remember being at East Lake in the Middle of May and waking up to 6 inches of snow. Beautiful area lived in Bend for about 5 years. Hopr to get back there some time. Miss it. Take Care.
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