dry fly sea run cutties

[WF-6-S]

beach fishing for cutties today. They seemed like they would devour any of the regular cuttie flys so I was thinking it would have been perfect for fishing the dry fly fishing I've heared can be succsesful from the beach. I've never done it before and I was woundering if anyone could tell me about the technique. You chuck it and let it sit like on still water, or skate it, twitch it or what. Probably a combo of all the above but any way, any tips would be appreciated.

thanks

[robin]

Well its not quite dry fly but we often go after sea runs with little poppers. where were you fishing?

[WF-6-S]

Yeah, I've heared poppers can be pretty fun fishing too, I'll definately have to try it. I was fishing at the mouth of Mohun creek in Campell River.

[tinpusher]

Surface fishing for SRC is a gas! Your hookup to rise ratio with searuns will probably be low but atleast you will see them. I recently went out with a friend who fished a sinking line. We never saw any fish rolling and did not get a single tug. I went to a gurgler on top and had a half dozen rises in 30 minutes. Meanwhile there were no other fish showing and my buddy still did not have a hit subsurface. Of all those rises I did not even prick a fish but it was exciting.

[WF-6-S]

I had a little experiment myself with them a couple of weeks ago. I had one hook up on my first cast, but that was it. The next four strikes came pretty quickly, but were so inaccurate that a hook up was out of the question. Your right though, it's an adrenaline rush. One came clear out of the water about a foot! I wanted to land some though, so after about half an hour of missed fish I put on a bloody nose. They liked that even better and I only missed a few. The poppers definately earned a spot in my box though.

[jared]

Surface fishing for SRC is a gas! Your hookup to rise ratio with searuns will probably be low but atleast you will see them. I recently went out with a friend who fished a sinking line. We never saw any fish rolling and did not get a single tug. I went to a gurgler on top and had a half dozen rises in 30 minutes. Meanwhile there were no other fish showing and my buddy still did not have a hit subsurface. Of all those rises I did not even prick a fish but it was exciting.

What size/color gurgler were you fishing? It's one of my favorite flies, but I use it more on the East Coast than my BC fishing....

thanks!

-J

[tinpusher]

Gurglers were size 6 and 8 with a green foam back and crystal or silver chenillie body.

[patches]

skating little yellow humpys were there is some currant from the mouth of the stream or river i find a killer tec. most years this dies of with dropping water but with all this rain........ its SEA RUN MAYHAM .

[phearless]

Hey guys, I might be up that way in september.
Are there still cutties around?
When the time gets closer maybe I will post to hook up with someone.

[patches]

ya this is cutthroat country Canada my friend! there is always cutts to be had .just let me in on when your going to be up.