Met up with a friend after work to chuck flies on the sammamish. we fished the Woodenville stretch. The river was THICK with fish, but most (nearly all) were squawfish that seemed to be spawning. They were surfacing all over the river. At first we couldn't buy a bite, finally around 6:30 my friends rod doubles over with a decent fish on, turned out to be a 18" squawfish. About 30 minutes later he caught a small rainbow trout. Then at 7:45 the bite turned on and we both started catching squawfish, most of which were about 12". was expecting to catch trout, but the squaws put up a decent fight so I'm not too disappointed. All fish were released, olive woolley bugger was the choice fly this time. dead drift/swung was the technique.


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