Tossing this out there if any of you Overlanding fly flingers would care to join us...
My staff and I are hosted a few of our friends up on the Puget Sound for a little Sea-run Cutthroat fishing on July 22nd-23rd-24th. We'll be camping at Manchester State Park and fishing the area around the park. I'm hoping to have a few local experts/guides on hand to offer pointers, and we're putting together information packets for attendees with maps to productive beaches. We're not expecting a big crowd, but we did have 40 folks show up for our Deschutes Spring Trout picnic so you never know. We'll be doing a Stone Soup Potluck and Taco Bar for lunch on Sunday for sure and will probably do a community dinner on Saturday night depending on how many people plan on camping... Details and updates are
available on our shop site. Would love to hook up with some of you fly fishers on here. I might be towing the Whaler up, but this is mostly beach fishing...
Also, this being an odd number year Puget Sound is expecting their bigger Pink Salmon run. Although forecasted to be down, there are still several million fish expected to return. While funky looking in fresh water, these pint size Salmon are a hoot on a 6 wt rod and chrome bright in the salt. This fishery should ramp up in August, so I have an excuse to go back up! I try to do at least one or two trips up there in the odd years and it's a blast. My first adventure was a"reel" eye opener when I boated over 50 fish in an evening/morning session before putting the boat on the trailer. I brought a few fresh bucks home to smoke, but probably will not be doing that again. I'll stick with hatchery fall Chinook....
Tackle is simple for this, a full intermediate sinking line in 6 or 7 wt. ( I like the Rio Outbound or Aqualux ) and a pink fly. Not a Pink fly, a pink fly. Anything pink works. I'll keep ya posted as we get closer, or maybe someone in the area can chime in here.
