Big Dog!

The East side steelhead fishing has slowed as the weather has gotten cold. We have been fishing our local rivers the last month. There has been some late coho entering the rivers giving a angler a decent chance at still catching some bright fish.  The chum have also been a couple weeks behind schedule and have been biting pretty good depending on where you go.
On the skagit the dolly fishing has got a lot better in the last few weeks. There is some nice fish with some fat bellys. They have been feeding on flesh and eggs pretty hard and are hungry! I have been fishing our articulated cop car fly quite a bit there. Check it out here - http://www.streamsideflyshop.com/flies.htm

I am starting  to book for Olympic Peninsula Steelhead fishing for winter/spring 2014. Mid Feb - mid April is the prime time. I do a $50 discount per day for 2 or more days booked. I do have some guys looking for partners to split trips too. Let me know if interested.

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Go Seahawks!

Mike D
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Guy & Russ  with steelhead on the Grande Ronde wilderness float trip
Dry fly: Lights Out

River are look'n good, weather is nice and trees are turning color. What a beautiful time of year. I just got back from some Grande Ronde Fishing. The damn counts are low this year for fish and fishing in September was slow but before I got there there was a heavy rain that brought some fish in and we did pretty good. I had a lot of fun, just love being over there. I know Dennis was hittn some nice fish too in the lower river. Some good dry fly action too. 
I am back home now and on the local scene fishing coho, chums, dollys, cuthroat and steelhead. It's a fun time of year cause you never know what is going to hit the fly. 2 years ago this time of year one of my clients, Chris landed all 5 species in one day! The fish were very agro that day.

I am booking some trips for Methow Steelhead now, looks like it will open in 2 days, Dates that I have open are the 25th or 28th of Oct, I can possibly do the 26th or 27th but let me know, I need to know asap if you want in.

Happy fishing,

Kris and a Big fresh Skagit Buck

I have been steelhead fishing, cutthroat fishing and salmon fishing in the last couple weeks. The water was very low on the Skykomish and Stilly.
We took a big shot of rain a couple nights ago and the rivers are blown out. The Skykomish will probably come back into shape the fastest.

Look for a lot of salmon to shoot into the rivers now. There was already a bunch but it should be rock'n as the rivers clear up.

We are pretty much booked solid in September, just have Sept 11th open but we are booking for our Grande Ronde Steelhead fishing and Coho/chum/dolly/cutthroat fishing in October and November - some of my favorite fishing. You never know what is going to pull the line tight.

The pinks are starting to hit the rivers. Get your flies here - http://streamsideflyshop.com/flies.htm

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http://flyfishsteelhead.com/guiding.htm

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http://flyfishsteelhead.com/2002flyfishingschool.html

If your looking to do some salmon trips this year I would let me know asap, trips are booking up now with the good reports of salmon #'s. Should be a killer year. We will start our salmon trips in early August. Sept 15th - Sept 29th we will do group trips for $175 pp. Make a group or join one.

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Happy fishing,

Mike Dickson

425-330-9506

Marks Methow Cutbow

I just got back from fishing the Methow River. Mostly dry fly action with a nymph or 2 thrown in and in a couple deep pools we swung some big ugly leaches which helped Chris get a bit of action and a big rainbow. I'll be honest on the overall fishing was ok. We had plenty of action to keep us going but we didn't find as many of the big cutthroat that we normally do. When you put that many days on the river it was a noticeable

difference. Not sure why. The weather was warm but we did get a bit more overcast than normal. Still one of my favorite places to be in the summer!

The N.F. of the Stilly is closed for a few weeks due to low water.  Not sure what good that is going to do.

The pinks are starting to hit the rivers. Get your flies here - http://streamsideflyshop.com/flies.htm

Check out our calendar -
http://flyfishsteelhead.com/guiding.htm

Check out our schools - 
http://flyfishsteelhead.com/2002flyfishingschool.html

If your looking to do some salmon trips this year I would let me know asap, trips are booking up now with the good reports of salmon #'s. Should be a killer year. We will start our salmon trips in early August. Sept 15th - Sept 29th we will do group trips for $175 pp. Make a group or join one.

For more info check out and join our facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/groups/248375167480/

Happy fishing,

Mike Dickson

425-330-9506

Summer Steelie fly: Metal Detector

 So much has been going on lately. I have been all over the place.

I have a guy looking for a partner for fishing the Methow July 29^th and 30^th. Let me know if interested.

The Sky has been fishing decent. It gets a little tougher as the water drops. But when the water drops you see less jet boats on the lower river. I try to avoid it if I can if the water is over 3000cfs on a weekend. The upper river looks good but there are lots of spots I skip now cause the water is low.

The Stilly has had some problems. There is some sort of slide that boulder creek is leaching from that is real dirty creating some pretty dirty water from there down. If you fish above there the water is real clear. From boulder down is fishable but I wouldn’t use skaters. Deer creek adds a little clarity and I have found some fish there. I keep thinking that boulder will clear up as the water drops but after a few weeks and not budging. I’m starting to think the color will hang around for a while.

C-post road has been gated, I’ve heard cause there has been some losers dumping trash back there. Seams to be the usual amount of fish this year, last year had a bunch more hatchery fish.

Last week I got a couple days fishing on the Methow. The water is starting to drop and the fish were looking up. Felt like the fish wanted dries vs. nymphs. I fished a hopper dropper rig the first day and just the dry fly the next day. Weather was beautiful and we had a blast.

I fished Pass Lake yesterday for a few hours. Choronomids and leaches were the ticket. It was a little windy and fishing picked up around 6:30 pm. Before I fished Pass I made a few casts on a beach on Whidby Island for pinks. Nothing was going on so I didn’t waste too much time. I have heard a few areas are starting to get them though. Just spotty right now. Fishing should get better soon.

Check out our calendar -

http://flyfishsteelhead.com/guiding.htm

Check out our schools - 
http://flyfishsteelhead.com/2002flyfishingschool.html

If your looking to do some salmon trips this year I would let me know asap, trips are booking up now with the good reports of salmon #'s. Should be a killer year. We will start our salmon trips in early August. Sept 15th - Sept 29th we will do group trips for $175 pp. Make a group or join one.

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Happy fishing,

Mike Dickson

425-330-9506

Summer loving

Scrappy little wild fish

Summer is here, and the rivers are in nice shape.
As the rivers opened the Sky has been a little busy with anglers and jet boats but that should mellow a little as the summer goes on. There are good numbers of chinook showing and normal numbers of steelies.


The Skagit was a real sleeper, not a lot of guys and some fish. The tribe has started netting due to the sockeye so that has mellowed.

There is a few fish in the Stilly but that will get better for the wild fish the closer to july we go.

Check out our calendar -




http://flyfishsteelhead.com/guiding.htm

Check out our schools - 
http://flyfishsteelhead.com/2002flyfishingschool.html




If your looking to do some salmon trips this year I would let me know asap, trips are booking up now with the good reports of salmon #'s. Should be a killer year. We will start our salmon trips in early August. Sept 15th - Sept 29th we will do group trips for $175 pp. Make a group or join one.

For more info check out and join our facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/groups/248375167480/

Happy fishing,

Mike D
425-330-9506

The rivers are about to open for summer steelhead on the 1st of June, I can't wait.

We have been fishing the local lakes and doing classes. The other day when we fished on my favoite lake we started the day trolling leaches and did the best with olive leaches. We saw a small callibaetis hatch and caught one fish on a cripple but with the cooler weather there wasn't a lot of  bugs on the surface. The surface fly they wanted was small, like a # 20.
After that we flipped back and forth from leaches to choronamids.

The fish were really onto a small red chironamid. Boring way to fish for me but if your catching fish it keeps you going.

If your looking to do some salmon trips this year I would let me know asap, trips are booking up now with the good reports of salmon #'s. Should be a killer year. From Sept 15th - Sept 29th we will do group trips for $175 pp. Make a group or join one.

For more info check out and join our facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/groups/248375167480/

Happy fishing, 

Mike D
425-330-9506