Pacific Fly Fishers' Fly Fishing and Fly Tying Blog

I think maybe it’s time to get some saltwater reports up here. Here is a little peek inside a guide trip with Sound Fly Fishing and Kenmore Air. We took off from Kenmore Air Harbor after a slight fog delay. We almost had to shoot the Narrows Bridge due to fog but Larry the pilot is fantastic at finding holes in the clouds. Hit the first beach and found a few smaller cutts about 50 feet off the shore. All fish taken were on a Imitator Oil Slick pattern. Off to the next beech keeping our heads up and all we found was wind. Back in the plane and up in the air again.

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I fished the Missouri River in Montana for the first time over the last few days. What a great river with great numbers of fish and lots of really big fish.

This trip was hosted by the folks at RIO and me and a two other fly shop owners had the pleasure of getting to know a few of the main guys responsible for the sales, marketing and manufacturing of RIO lines

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Once or twice a year a friend or customer tells me they encountered a big hatch of Callibaetis mayflies on Pass Lake. I’ve fished Pass Lake a quite frequently for about 15 years now and I’ve often seen Callibaetis, but I’ve never seen numbers of them big enough to stir much interest from me or the fish. I always told them they were almost certainly seeing the big chironomids bombers and that Pass Lake doesn’t get anything beyond a sporadic Callibaetis hatch.

Yesterday, I proved myself wrong.</p

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So its Fathers day. Couldn’t hit the river with pops this morning which is too bad. But for the middle of June the river has been pretty non-forgiving as of late. June is the time of year on the Sky where usually a skunk doesn’t happen let alone three in a row. But today I finally got out of the foul odor of the skunk. It wasn’t a banner day on the river didn’t see anybody else with a fish. Hopefully this warm weather stretch will bump the river up to big and get those fish that have been hanging out deep in the lower river moving up and into the fly water.

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Not that I am a fan of that show, but according to the stats it is always sunny in Wenatchee. Well I have been spending quite a bit of time on this river since it has opened. Mason beat me to one of the posts and its been busy going back and forth. But although fishing hasn’t been red hot like it was last year around this time. But for the venturing few that have been out there, there is a few willing takers.

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Usually when we get weather like we have had.  Torrential deluges’, Flooded rivers and 2ft of vis in the river for weeks.  Every Saturday while in the shop talking fish, the topic always comes up about how bad of shape the rivers are in.  Last week I was in total agreeance with all that came in.  Yesterday after seeing the river on the way into work, and the silted steelhead green that it was flowing my mind began to wander all day about searching for the chrome that the pools and runs of the Skykomish holds.  Curious to see what changes mother nature has brought us with the second major flood of the year, looking for that magical run that holds more fish that one could possibly endure (she didn’t bring us that, but its always fun to hope), I set my sights on the upper sky come dawn this morning.  Fishing with my first fishing partner of my life, like many times I do in scouting the changes, we spent the day looking for the Skys’ bounty from sun up to sun down.

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Mason and I took the boat to the Cowlitz and headed up river from the town of Toledo. We fished water from Toledo all the way up to the Blue Creek area. It was fun to spend a day on a river I have never fished before but have heard so much about. There were lots of other jet boats but only one other group of fly anglers. We only watched one steelhead get hooked by other anglers pulling plugs but I bet the gear guys were finding some fish in the deeper water.

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Sorry we haven’t had a recent blog report posted in a while but we’ve been very busy. After many months of work, we have finally launched the new version of our website and catalog. Nice job by Peter, PFF’s in-house web guru, for making this new site way more technically advanced, better looking, and much more interesting.

You will hopefully notice many new features on the new site and a ton of new functionality in the catalog… such as wish lists, online gift certificates, (optional) user account creation and maintenance, and much more.

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Welcome to our new fly fishing report blog. We’re hoping this will be a great new tool for us at PFF to provide you with up-to-date fishing reports. Like most fly shops, we WANT to provide killer fishing reports. We know we SHOULD be making the time to provide reports…. But it just never makes the top of the priority list and it doesn’t get done.

Believe me, if you worked at the shop, you would quickly understand why it happens that way.

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