The weather was great, the bugs were out, and the fish were up! We couldn't have asked for more last Wednesday as eight club members enjoyed a day's fishing on the Yakima River. Four guides from Red's Fly Shop shared their expertise and pleasant personalities with us--putting us on a lot of fish, te

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Fished the incoming tide this morning at Ala Spit with Peter Tobin. I managed to catch one before all the boat traffic started up.

Carol and I are on the island for a couple days--escaping the Seattle heat. As we were sitting on the deck yesterday afternoon, I saw two fish jump just offshore. That's encouraging. Anyone have salmon reports?

Pete Tobin and I fished a couple of lakes in the Winthrop area. June 14 we fished Big Twin and had some success with big dry flies. We were told that the trout were at the 25 foot level, but we watched active surface feeding in the east end of lake. And this was the ticket to some good dry fly ac

I spent an couple hours fishing the outgoing tide at Ala Spit yesterday. Trying to get to the water was a chore in itself, given all the clam diggers. From the smiles and full buckets I saw, it must have been a success for everyone. Fishing (or catching, at least) was less common, though not tota

Had a great day on the Yakima yesterday. My old friend Jim and I floated from Red's to Roza with Craig, a guide from Red's Fly Shop. Craig was an awesome guide. We hit the water about 10:30am and used a two fly nymph setup. Both rigs had a small beaded worm fly below a larger weighted nymph under

Long time listener, first time caller - I'm fairly new to the stillwater game, but with the pandemic upon us I decided to spend some time this winter figuring out the Island's lakes. To that end, over Thanksgiving weekend I took my float tube out to recently stocked Cranberry Lake and ended up havi

After repairing some damage to our beach boardwalk that resulted from the last large storm, Dave and I had intended to fish Pass Lake for the afternoon, but the parking lot is closed temporarily because of a sinkhole. Check the park website before you head that way to fish. Not wanting to cancel fi

My son, David, and I fished Pass Lake yesterday afternoon for about three hours. Trolling a green leech, I caught two 17-inchers. Dave had no luck trolling a black leech. We were fishing along the eastern shore and went as far north as the large cove there. Dave was using a full sink type 6 line

Mark McGinnis and I are in the middle of a four-day fishing trip to Missoula. Today we were out on the Blackfoot River with my guide son, David. While I'll prepare a full presentation of our trip for showing at an upcoming club meeting, we had an experience today that I HAVE to share. I had hooke