Next Weekend, 3/17-18

My trip to Seattle, next weekend, has been on, then off, now back on.

I'd be up for a low exposure trip. (I'll have my 4yo daughter.) Flounder/rock sole, Tom? SRC, resident coho/blackmouth? Panfish in a lake?

Pisco,

Yeah, that sounds nice.  Raised a couple of girls myself once.. a long time ago.  The times that you take them fishing can be BIG mocus, on both sides of the equation.

If you want to try for anything saltwater, I’ll let you pick what you consider to be protected water and a species to go with it.  Don’t mind fresh water?  I’m thinking that most of those trout that were planted in Beaver Lake (over by Lake Sammish) last November are still in there.  I’ve got a whole lot of red wrigglers I can bring.  Say the word and I’ll bring them along, unlike the time I met Polepole and I thought he was kidding about bringing the worms.

Fishin-T

Main driver for me will be the weather conditions. That said, I'm jonesing more for a saltwater experience, after being over here. I get plenty of trout in the Methow, and have gotten to the point that I consider stockers to be annoying pests. Big wild trout are another story.

Ever been to Camano Island? The north end is less than an hour from Lynnwood, and there are a couple of public parks for water access. The first is at Utsalady Pt., the next just a couple miles farther west. If things are calm, I would suggest launching at the second park. There we can fish the shallows for flatfish, or head to deeper water for B-mouth. If winds are too strong from the south, the first launch will work. It faces north and is a shallower beach and closer to the estuary. Should be good for flatfish, and maybe for SRC or salmon.

Here's a link to an Acme Mapper page- http://mapper.acme.com/?lat=48.33902&long=-124.669&scale=14&theme=Topo&width=4&height=3&dot=Yes

I might find a way to join you guys if you launch on Sunday. 

pete

Things are evolving on my end...

First, I'm not going to be able to stay at my in-law's in N. Seattle, this weekend. Looks like we'll be staying at another in-laws, out on Discovery Bay, instead.  Waterfront, but deep in the bay. Good for crabs and clams, in season. I've only cast a flyrod for an hour and had no luck. It might be good for flatfish, but I don't know. I do know that fishing for B-mouth has been good out at the entrance to the bay. If we fish there, I'd probably drift/mooch a herring at 100'+.

I don't know if you guys want to travel out that way? My window on Sunday will be pretty short, what with packing up, (and cleaning up, after a 4yo.) I'll need to be back in Seattle around 2pm, or so.

Second, I need to head out to the garage and do some repairs to the seats in my boat, unless I want to take a canoe, instead. 

Here's a map. I'll be staying near Adelma Beach. It's about 30-40 minutes from Kingston.
The weather forecast is sounding dicey for Sat., but better for Sun.

 http://mapper.acme.com/?lat=48.33902&long=-124.669&scale=14&theme=Topo&width=4&height=3&dot=Yes

There is also a county access at Diamond Pt., which is at the west side of the entrance to Discovery Bay.

Pisco,

Hey, don’t worry about the changing plans.  I think I’ll still use your spot up on Camano though.  Takes a pretty good chunk out of the weekend for me to get over to the O.P.  If the weather behaves, get your little girl out there and have some fun!

So Flyman, you still want to meet up at Camano on Sunday?  I’m just looking for a few Rock Soles to mess with and these guys (here on the NWKA) have all but convinced me that the Snohomish delta isn’t the place that I want to pick them up.  They’ll be hanging pretty shallow this time of year I think.  Yeah, you might be able to pick them up on some kind of fly.  Probably you’re thinking about the sea run Cuts though.  That’s okay too.  Let’s get up there and get out some.  What time works for you?

Fishin-T

Morning is best for me- let me know time and place!  The only flattie that I have caught on the fly was 2 years ago while fishing for chum at Eagle Creek in Hood Canal.  This will be the last opportunity for me to get out and fish until I go to Cabo, so I am looking forward to it.

pete

Pete,

How about 9:00 am Sunday at that Utsalady Beach (park, point, bay, whatever) just west of Stanwood?  It IS daylight saving time now after all.  No need to get crazy, right?  To give you some idea, I’m thinking we’ll be fishing no deeper than maybe 15’.  I’ll bet you can pick up a few little flatfish with a fly of some sort at those depths.

We should probably count on rain too.  Still, it sounds like fun.

Fishin-T

Good luck guys.  There should be some chum fry starting to flush out of the Skagit.  Find the bait, match the hatch, and hold on ...

-Allen

Too bad the Keystone ferry is knocked out of service, (leaks! ) we would head that way first thing in the morning. I've been reading some interesting posts, on other boards, about salt water flyfishing.

Hey, I just checked online and apparently the Klickitat is running again. The weather forecast for Sunday is looking good. When, and where, do you want to launch?

Pisco, When I was living over in tri cities I would go drift the Klickitat with a buddy of mine I worked with at Redlion. Pulled some nice steelhead out of that river. Didn't fish it enough to have any luck with salmon.
I hope you weren't talking about Launching on that river now. That thing should be starting to flow good. The wenatchee is going good.

Took me a second to figure out what you were saying ... 

Matt, I think PS is talking about the Ferry Klickitat and you're talking about the River Klickitat.

-Allen

Yeah, I was talking about the ferry, which is the one running between Port Townsend and Keystone (Whidbey). With the ferry running, the trip from PT to Camano is probably shorter than the trip from Issaquah to Camano.

I've only fished the Klickitat R. a couple of times, though I've driven past it many times on the way to Portland. A beautiful canyon and river; I wish it weren't so far away.

T-

I will see you there at 9:00 on Sunday.  Damn-  this means I gotta set up the vise and tie up some flattie flys!

pete