Went fishing the Snoqualmie River at the mouth of Tolt River in Carnation. (I thought this is still King County, but the web page forced me to choose Snohomish County. Weird.) People say there are steelheads.
I spent 3 hours there from about 4:00PM, caught nothing but a foot-long squawfish. Other than that, I got no bites at all. What I did was casting a streamer about 50' into the current coming into Snoqualmie from Tolt, let it drift and then 6-inch retrieve it back. I was using a sink tip line, the streamer is not weighted and no bead. What did I do wrong??? (At that place on the Snoqualmie River, other than the incoming current, which flows fast, the water in the river seems to be still, very slow. Is moving water like the incoming current a better choice or still water?)
There were another 3 fly-fisherman/women. According to them, they've been fishing this place for quite some time, they got nothing either. They said they didn't even see other people get anything at this place. What went wrong?


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