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CoHo Ho, Merry Christmas! Humpy Holidays. For those
of you who will be fortunate enough to go fishing this weekend,
there are scads of angling options and opportunities, several of
which we'll list here, whether you're naughty or nice.
Steelheading is an option. The rivers
are in perfect shape all around as we've had some lower freezing
levels and lack of precipitation. Pinch me. Winter fish are showing
up all over the place: All Westside Puget Sound Rivers of note have
good numbers of fish in them, although most of those are hatchery
fish, which are more difficult to hook on flies simply because they
don't generally linger around in the river for very long (comparatively
speaking), i.e. they pretty much zoom right up to their little hatcheries.
The good news is that fishing below all of the hatcheries, such
as Reiter Ponds Road (Skykomish), Tokul Creek (Snoqualmie), and
those on the more northerly rivers, will be promising. Go get a
Christmas fish out of the Sky and make us proud. Visibility is totally
out of character at about 2 feet or more in Westside rivers. Mo'
see, Mo' Eats. Tactics are Slow and Low: nice slow, long swing of
the fly down deep to get right into their little fish faces. Sink
tip line (type III +) is an absolute necessity, and likewise bigger,
bulkier flies are the rule. The color of the pattern is not nearly
as important as the presentation (slow and low).
Rocky Ford, like a broken record....is
fishing well, and barring any chemical spills or airline disasters
in the area, should continue to do so. Veeerry small emergent chironamid
imitations are the best bet...down to #24's, if you have the stomach
for it. The fish will sit out there sipping these little midges,
and will refuse most offerings not very close in size to the insects
they're eating, which are teeny tiny super small. Very very small.
Miniscule. Teensy Weensy.
Puget Sound: South sound correspondent
Jens Frisvold has been slaying 'em down in the Narrows during the
low tide. The resident coho are cruising the shorelines looking
for baitfish to gobble.
Pass Lake has been enjoying some good fishing with the stable weather
pattern happening right now. Black and olive woolly buggers slow
and low have been working well, which the fish are probably mistaking
for crawdads or sticklebacks, perhaps.
Thank you very much for reading....things will pick up soon, and
as they do, we'll be on top of it and reporting about more and more
of the local fisheries. In the meantime, if you have a specific
spot to report on, or for which you'd like to hear what (if anything)
we have to say about it, please let us know.
Hope everyone has a www. great holiday season.com from all of us
elves at Creekside
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