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[Alomar]

Heading to the stave to fish the bay for coho as I am new to flyfishing any advice would be welcome, wat kinda flies and what line for starters..... Another question, do certain flies work in certain tribs or are all the tribs pretty similar as far as the flies u wanna use,
Thanx

[Funeral Of Hearts]

Clear intermediate sink line.

For flies I use:
Olive Muddler minnow
Muddler minnow with purple or blue body
Brown wooly bugger with red bead head

All of those flies have produced for me there. Find some slack water away from the chum.

[Alomar]

Thnx, what wt of rid should I use in case I hook into a big dog?

[Funeral Of Hearts]

At least an 8wt (that's what I use)... but chum fight hard so take a big enough fly rod or lighten your leader so you can break off a big chum if needed.

[Sandman]

8wt, clear intermediate tip, #6 Christmas tree.

[SteelheadAdict]

olive coho bugger

[HOOK]

rolled muddlers in natural, olive, blue and black
xmas trees in green/blue, silver/pale blue
sparkle buggers in olive and white

these have all pulled fish there in the past for me. the white sparkle bugger probably being the best one actually.

[Alomar]

Right on thanx guys, any idea how long coho fishing will last in the stave?

[Sandman]

Right on thanx guys, any idea how long coho fishing will last in the stave?

Like other north side flows, the coho will continue to enter the system right up to Christmas, but they will be few in numbers and difficult to find among all the boots. 

[HOOK]

I normally wouldn't even bother to start hunting coho there until a good 50% + of the chum had died off. When the river is plugged with chum the coho can be extremely difficult to find and catch.

normally I would hit Chehalis, Norrish, Dewdney Slough and Stave all in the same day. Stave was usually the last resort if the others weren't producing anything.

[Sandman]

I normally wouldn't even bother to start hunting coho there until a good 50% + of the chum had died off. When the river is plugged with chum the coho can be extremely difficult to find and catch.

normally I would hit Chehalis, Norrish, Dewdney Slough and Stave all in the same day. Stave was usually the last resort if the others weren't producing anything.

Same here, but I usually end up at another flow.

[Alomar]

Soo pretty good coho fishing till late nov?

[Min]

Thanks for getting this thread started Alomar.

I have had an 8 wt (purchased a couple years ago, used) that I haven't even "lined" up yet!!

I keep telling myself that "this will be the year"

Since I have this Friday off, maybe I will head over and give it a try.

[blackskull]

Water was extremely low when I went to take a look there this past Sun.  During low tide, I was able to walk down to the mobile home park, then wade over to the main channel.  The west channel was really shallow. 

[HOOK]

If you know where the shallow areas are you can cross that channel at low tide all the time. the mud is insanely slick though and slipping and getting soaked is almost a guarantee. also if you don't watch for when the tide is coming up and cross in time you will be wading to your neck and/or swimming back across or waiting for low tide again to get back. I have waded out there many times in the past and only the first time did we misjudge the height for our return trip, water was inches from the tops of our waders, we each got a little wet and the wade was very dicey on that slick mud.

If you do decide to wade out there pay close attention and be damn careful