With the cold weather February wasn’t the easiest month to find fly fishing success but several of us got out and made a few things happen. Good times were had and some nice fish were caught! Pictures are first with the reports below.
From Keaton Andreas: Caught my first Steelhead on the Necanicum River back on February 18th!
From Darryl Huff: from early February; fishing started improving in Oxbow.
From Joe Warren: fly fished Lake Billy Chinook and Fall River with a good friend in mid February & got some nice ones. See the full write up on my Blog.
From Chris Brehm: Spent a lot of hours chasing winter Steelhead in January and finally scored in February. First was an 11lb hatchery chromer, then a week later fishing with our son Sammy, we caught and released 2 bright natives along with this bruiser. All were caught on plugs in low clear water on the Sandy.
From Dave Kilhefner: borrowed a fishing step ladder from Chris Brehm and hit Pyramid Lake with Joe Warren. See the full write up on Joe’s Blog.
From Greg O’Brien: My brother and I finally made our multi-cancelled and delayed trip to a warm saltwater location. We went to the Grand Slam Lodge in Mexico for 4 guided days of fishing. It was only my second time tropical saltwater fishing, and was pleased to find that my time spent casting and double hauling the 8 and 9 wts lately helped me out. It was really windy 3 of the 4 days but we caught many Bonefish and Jacks plus a few other cool species. We had a few legit shots at Permit and Snook but they didn’t eat. Fun times, and I can’t wait for my next tropical saltwater trip which will hopefully be Christmas Island in 2024.
From Mike Shiiki: February was a little slow in the OFC lakes, but was always able to fool a couple of large ones. Only had a couple hits at Turner Lake, but they were both XL and hanging out near the grassy banks. Blue Den lake, did alright casting towards/near trees on that day but that place seems like they’ve been in different spots every day. Ranier Lakes was the most productive but a couple times the Middle Lake was iced over the past couple months. Still having success in our tubes with intermediate sink line, midge tip lines, and leeches.
From Terry Martin: Fished Blue Den lake with Craig. Wate temp was 45 degrees and we caught fish all day long with red & black balanced leeches and black chironomids.
Fish A Long Report: with the low water the February Fish A Long fishing was very slow. No steelhead were hooked, seen or even rumored to be present in the Sandy. However, I recently recieved several donations of some very nice fly tying materials and decided to get them out and so our members could choose what they wanted. Rich and Ian both made a good haul!
Thanks everyone for contributing your reports!