Fly fishing for musky: long hours of repetitive movements followed by brief intense action followed by jubliation or soul crushing disappointment. These fish are hard to catch but so worth the effort.
With huge areas of eastern Washington burning, smoke and ash piled up on us as we continued to cast and cast and cast in the search of a solid tug.
It happened.
More than once.
Not all were huge
Musky Dave
We’ve said it before, but whether you’re an experienced musky chaser, or are over your 10,000 casts without a fish it would never be a bad idea to get in touch with Musky Dave of Warmwater Rambler guide service. He will put you on fish.
Ash on the tents
Toothy
Musky Dave
Northstar plume
The glow from Stickpin
Back on the westside – just had to stop off for a quick dolly.
The winter of 2014-15 brought challenging fishing conditions to the Pacific Northwest. Warm wet weather early saw most of the areas usual snow fall as rain, which led to more blown out rivers than normal, and then a switch to dry warm weather turned the rivers low and clear. To get their steelhead fix, the DRYFT crew was forced to not only range farther abroad and visit locations from the coast of Oregon up to BC, but also to employ a broad range of tactics- from getting a little dirty during low clear flows to swinging overly large intruders in colored up water. This is Winter Wandering for steelhead in the Pacific Northwest.
Just a few pics of a small, but bright fish from the middle of coho season here on the westside of the country. 
BAM, nailed this Washington Bonefish right out of the gate. What an amazing trophy…sooooo sick.
With such a disapointing strong start to the day, we expected to get into some coho. It was not to be as they were playing hard to get.
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