GENERAL FLY FISHING INFORMATION FOR SUMMER STEELHEAD, TROUT & SALMON
  From the first week of June thru the last week of October is an excellent time of the year to plan a fly fishing trip/vacation to the Olympic Peninsula in Northwest Washington. Fly Anglers can expect to get into some consistently decent fishing and hook up with many members of the Salmonidae family or Onchorincus clan. During the months of June thru October you will encounter fresh summer run steelhead (5-20lbs), Springers (King Salmon 15- 50lbs), sea run cutthroat trout (10- 22 inches) and a zillion down river smolt of about 7-10 inches ( which we try our best to avoid). Out here on the Olympic Peninsula we also available during the summer months some absolutely superb saltwater fly fishing for Sea-Bass, Lingcod, Rock Cod, Greenling and Salmon. Saltwater fly fishing for the above mentioned species is easy pickin's and completely cutting edge, new techniques and fly patterns are being developed daily. The summer weather out here is normally balmy with temps averaging 70-75 F degrees and the rivers drop to their lowest levels of the year which puts them in great shape for wading anglers. Using drift boats to navigate the rivers can be a very "bumpy" option and unless you are really good on the oars and don't mind pushing your boat some, wading is the safest and most efficient way to get into the best water. A variety of hatches occur daily from June through October and range from terranarcis (Stonefly's) in early spring to the mondo sized October caddis in, you guessed it, October. There are also a wide variety of mayfly and smaller caddis hatches throughout the summer as well as a full crew of terrestrials that plop themselves into the water to become fish protein (ants, beetles, hoppers etc..). The rivers, and there are many here on the Olympic Peninsula, are each unto themselves unique in character. This offers the angler a never ending variety of types of waters to fish, for instance, the Sol-Duc River and Calawha River are typically very "rocky", raucous and fast moving with a few long slow pools thrown in for good measure, while the Hoh River and Queets River are classic clear glacier fed river with long sweeping pools, easy wading gravel bars and just a few, very interesting boulder strewn rapids throughout it's course. Other area rivers and streams of note are the Bogachiel River,  Elwha River, Upper Quinault River, Dungeness River, Goodman crk.

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Miss Kimberly with a couple of dandy fly caught Dolley Varden from the Hoh River in late June. We didn't target these fish but they are a great filler between casts for those elusive Steelhead and Spring Kings.