A quick Coastal Cutthroat outing

I had a couple of hours to kill today and decided that my time would be best spent harassing Cutthroat on the Puget Sound. So I grabbed my 6wt, spooled up with one of the new Royal Wulff Ambush lines and head out to the beach. In my opinion, the Ambush is a game changer for how I fish the saltwater. This line makes it relatively easy to toss a single hand spey style cast 60 to 70 feet. This ensures that even at high tide with there is no back room I can effectively cover the water. Coupled with Airflo poly leaders it works great either as a floating or intermediate line as well.

A beautiful afternoon on the Puget Sound

I started out fishing a Clouser and for the first half hour, I just enjoyed playing around with my new line with no grabs, before I decided that it was time to change flies. I switched over to a worm imitation and within a couple of casts I got a solid grab and hook into a sizeable Cutthroat. However, after a series of headshakes and few good tugs the fish threw the hook and was on its way again. A couple of casts later I got another good hook up this time with a smaller Cutthroat and after a short fight was able to bring it to hand. Apparently I had chosen just the right fly as once in my net the 12" Cutthroat spit out a 14" Polychaete Worm! After releasing the Cutthroat, I covered the beach for another half hour, but I had already used up the prime window on the tide and didn't see anymore fish.

A beautiful native sea-run Coastal Cutthroat

A successful release - see if you can find the Cutthroat (hint middle of the picture)