A somewhat similar experience with sea run cutthroats on the Olympic Peninsula


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Posted by Ballpark Frank (69.178.8.75) on 12:39:40 02/03/17

In Reply to: One of the amazing sites... posted by 46er

46er,

Back in the 1970s, when I lived in the Seattle suburbs, I used to spend a lot of time on the west side of the Olympic Peninsula. We were camped at the Graves Creek campground. One day, I was walking along the south bank of the East Fork of the Quinault River, and noticed a deep hole just below the bluff I was standing on. I was probably 15 or 20 feet above the water, and the hole appeared to be at least 20, maybe 30 feet deep. There was a mass of sea-run cutthroats milling around in that hole, down near the bottom. I decided to see if I could catch one of them. I spent a couple hours throwing everything I had in my tackle box at them in an attempt to get one to bite. I could manipulate any type of spinner right under their noses, but I never got a strike. That was before I learned that most salmonid species stop feeding when they start up their spawning streams. I think I was just annoying those cuts that had more important things on their mind!

Ballpark



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