So my dad and brother wanted to go to a river today, I wanted to troll for kokes. Or do some crazy hike into the middle of nowhere. But my brother was cranky, so we went to look for some silvers in the stilly. They aren't there.

But what are are searun cutthroat. Big ones. We fished the ultralight selective gear, and we found 'em holed up under a stump off of dike road.

But these were BIG cutthroat. I was wading, so no pics, and no keepsies, and I mean BIG. I've caught big searun cutts before, but these were 18 - 24 inches. Nice big fish. My brother had one run and snap his line that may have been bigger. Saw 'em in the hole with the polarizers. Really fun times. Still caught a bunch of smolts, and littler cutts. Pretty little rainbows. On there way out. Getting eaten by the big searun cutts. So we figured, can't keep 'em here, they're probably in the Sky, let's go there. So we went there.

Ended up starting in sultan and wading up the Sultan river past the park. Was really fun. Caught a giant sucker, about 3 pounds, a bunch of 'em.

And My brother of course stomped on ahead of us, and caught all the fish. Two big cutts. One at fifteen inches and one at nineteen. Then it got dark.

Was fun because the Sultan was just fast enough for Jack, my dog, to tread water along side me the whole time. He had a blast.

The water was on the warm side, fish were holding in cover, in faster moving water.

Fished with rainbow kastmasters, plain kastmasters, and little cleo spoons.

The winner today for most hook ups was a gold used mepps, the old kind that I got for 99 cents at eds surplus here in Lynnwood. They got a bunch of real nice used tackle, got a bag of it for ten bucks. The suckers in the sultan are weird looking, they look like squaw fish, but they don't have big mouths, and they don't have sucky mouths like a sucker. Anybody know what they are? Sorry for the picture, I couldn't stand back far enough to get the fish in the picture.

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