• Coastal coho — The numbers don’t lie.
Coming home with at least one coho from either of the Peninsula’s coastal fisheries is pretty much a guarantee.
Finally, we can actually refer to fishing as “catching.”
• Subalpine lakes — Nothing scares off more anglers than shear laziness.
Olympic National Park has loads of lakes (Seven Lakes Basin comes to mind) filled with trout.
All it takes is a little hiking and an amateur ability with a fly rod, and the things will be nibbling at the end of your line.
Don’t let the hike put you off. Good fishing is only a few miles away.
• PT crab — Rather than take the epic journey to the San Juan Islands (the closest open chinook fishery), dump out a few pots in Port Townsend Harbor and start doing beer curls.
The crab are there, and need only a stinky treat to entice their insatiable appetites. Why work when sitting on your butt is so much easier?
• Hurricane Hill hike — I have it on good information that Hurricane Ridge is blossoming with wildflowers.
This scenario tends to leave as quickly as it arrives, so it behooves your inner naturalist to head to the hills as soon as possible.
• Fly tying seminar — Waters West, located at 140 West Front St. in Port Angeles, will host a free fly tying seminar this Saturday at 10 a.m.
Guest tier Bill Fitzsimmons will demonstrate a number of summer steelhead patterns at the one-hour event.
As hard as it is to actually hook a summer steelie right now, perhaps your time would be better spent learning how to catch them.
For more information, contact Waters West at 360-417-0937.
Matt Schubert
