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[clarki]

Fair to middlin season on the cutthroat beach this past summer. In 8 outings, totalling 12 hours, from mid May to late July I hooked 20 fish and landed 10. Collectively my buddies went out 12 times, totalling 30 hours, and hooked 42 and landed 33.

I didn't catch many big fish this year; one of my friends though has some salivating stories of some bigguns.

My numbers aren't as good as last year. There were several nights when the wind, weeds and murky water made for tough conditions but, overall, still a respectable season. Time to hang up the little spoons until next year...

Cheers.

[GoldHammeredCroc]

Any pics of those beauties?

[marmot]

You flyfish for them at all? Thats all I do and I caught some beauties this past year.  Q:  Why on earth are you hanging up the spoons now? Its going to get good when the searuns get concentrated around the creekmouths/sloughs waiting for salmon flesh and eggs.  This is a great time of year to be fishing for them.

[clarki]

Any pics of those beauties?

No pics from this year. Don't carry a camera down there that often. I'm a clumsy wader and cameras don't like saltwater, too stressful on the predominantly wild fish while I fumble for the camera for a gratuitous, ego inflating, shot and too much work to wade over to where a buddy is fishing. 

You flyfish for them at all? Thats all I do and I caught some beauties this past year.  Q:  Why on earth are you hanging up the spoons now? Its going to get good when the searuns get concentrated around the creekmouths/sloughs waiting for salmon flesh and eggs.  This is a great time of year to be fishing for them.

I rarely flyfish for them. IMHO, for this fishery, my little spoons are more effective than flies. I've spoonfished besides some skilled flyfisherman on a couple of occasions and routed them both times. The cutts in the chuck are actively feeding, they can see for a long ways as the water is very clear, and the flash of prism on my spoon draws them in (ever noticed how baitfish flash silver their silver sides as they turn in the water). I still like catching fish too much to try something else. Maybe I'll grow up some day...

I fish the beach a fair bit from April'ish to September'ish; after 4-5 months I'm ready to chase other salmonids. Sea runs don't concentrate around the saltwater estuaries, waiting, like they do in the creek mouths/sloughs of the Fraser.  They move upstream with the rains...and the salmon. On the saltwater beach I frequent the peak time is summer, then my thought's turn to the next season. 

[marmot]

Ya exactly what I mean.. the sloughs of the fraser/harrison and also the mouths of creeks that dump into them...especially the harrison

If you do well with spoons, no need to switch!!  Just sounded like with 8 times out and only 10 fish landed you werent getting into as many as you usually might.  I think you are right about it only being a fair year though.  One of my go-to spots was really bad this year, usually its nonstop all day.

[clarki]

I don't get too bent out of shape about only landing 10. I tend to keep stats in terms of fish touched: strikes, hooked, or landed. Since I fish catch and release as these are mostly wild fish, each touch is a fish that I fooled and that works for me.

Still, hooking 20 in 8 outings is a little slow in comparison to the past couple of years. In 2005, in 9 outings, I hooked 39 cutts (plus a coho) and landed 16. In 2004, in 4 outings, I hooked 28 and landed 12.  Mind you 2005 was an extraordinary year and in 2004, I hooked 23 in one mind blowing evening.