07-28-2004, 03:56 PM
Sol Duc River - July 24th, 2004
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FISHING: Fair
Sol-Duc (sole~duck) River-- It was a tough day in here yesterday, we had very low gin clear water and extremely standoffish fish, landing only 2 Sockeye. However it has not been unusual to get into a multi species rally recently, for instance, last Saturday we had 5 Sockeye, 1 Steelhead, 1 Silver Salmon and 7 Cutthroat brought to hand in less than 4 hrs!! and there are still a few (very few) fresh King Salmon moving/crawling up this little river.
Note: It is strictly catch and release on ALL Wild Steelhead. Had a real tough go of it on Tuesday, we raised quit a few Cutthroat but nary a Steelhead, Saw several nice Steelhead in "strange" spots but could not get them interested in a skated fly. There are decent numbers of Steelhead in the lower Calawha R. and Bogachiel R. but the fish are getting hit pretty darn hard.
General Info: Fly fishermen can count on a Knudsen Spider, Wooley bugger or smallish streamer pattern, sizes #4 to #8, swung, swam or twitched near the bottom. Tie up with a longish 6'-7' non tapered clear mono tippet of say 8 to 10lb (2X) > blood knotted to a 2 ft heavy mono butt section > connected the butt section to a 12 ft tapered medium sink Rio or Airflo Steelhead leader > link this to you dry line and you are in business. During the morning and evening hours try going completely dry, nothing fancy here, just a riffle hitched "muddler" or "bubble head" on a long leader slowly skated over the nose of a "Summer-run".
supplied by: [url "http://www.fisheyesoup.com/redir.php?recKey=89,re"]Fishing Northwest[/url]
FISHING: Fair
Sol-Duc (sole~duck) River-- It was a tough day in here yesterday, we had very low gin clear water and extremely standoffish fish, landing only 2 Sockeye. However it has not been unusual to get into a multi species rally recently, for instance, last Saturday we had 5 Sockeye, 1 Steelhead, 1 Silver Salmon and 7 Cutthroat brought to hand in less than 4 hrs!! and there are still a few (very few) fresh King Salmon moving/crawling up this little river.
Note: It is strictly catch and release on ALL Wild Steelhead. Had a real tough go of it on Tuesday, we raised quit a few Cutthroat but nary a Steelhead, Saw several nice Steelhead in "strange" spots but could not get them interested in a skated fly. There are decent numbers of Steelhead in the lower Calawha R. and Bogachiel R. but the fish are getting hit pretty darn hard.
General Info: Fly fishermen can count on a Knudsen Spider, Wooley bugger or smallish streamer pattern, sizes #4 to #8, swung, swam or twitched near the bottom. Tie up with a longish 6'-7' non tapered clear mono tippet of say 8 to 10lb (2X) > blood knotted to a 2 ft heavy mono butt section > connected the butt section to a 12 ft tapered medium sink Rio or Airflo Steelhead leader > link this to you dry line and you are in business. During the morning and evening hours try going completely dry, nothing fancy here, just a riffle hitched "muddler" or "bubble head" on a long leader slowly skated over the nose of a "Summer-run".