I had the best day today, fishing a floating line with four feet of #10 test leader and a bead head fly. I was fishing slow water and getting them mostly on the retrieve.
I had started with a slow sinking tip, but after flossing three or four in a row, I realized that I needed to change something. Out came the full floater, and the rest is history. Twenty fish to the beach in about three hours, all of them right in the yap. Reminded me of coho fishing in the sloughs, with those pinks jumping and rolling. Took home two identical twin males - as chrome and as humpless as they can be.
Somebody made a comment about there being lots of people with a fly rod. True, it seemed everyone and their cousin was fly fishing today. Sadly, most of them were lining the fish with their sinking tips. They will be in for a rough awakening when the fish become few and far between.
Mamquam's water visibility was quite decent in the afternoon, BTW, at a good foot or so.
Furry Creek was fishing very well, too. My buddies limited out in the morning in less than an hour.