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William Lovelace
 Here
are some flies that I used on my wonderful first trip to Puget Sound
in ‘07 in pursuit of SRCutts with my friend Jason Lundgren. For my
inspiration I surfed the net about the Puget Sound Cutthroat and
settled on the great book by Les Johnson,
Fly-Fishing Coastal Cutthroat, Flies, Techniques, Conservation.
Jason of course needed no inspiration being a Fisheries Biologist
who has long fished the Sound and ties his own superb flies
developed just for the Sound.
 I
tied up a box of flies that looked good to me from this book and
added another box of Clousers, Blondes, and a few other saltwater
favorites of mine. Clousers need no introduction for either fresh or
saltwater and I took a box with three different sizes in White &
Chartreuse, White & Blue, White & Brown and White & Pink. Here are 9
flies or variations from Johnson’s book that I fished and one fly
the Schoolie from the East Coast that I thought would be a good sand
lance double treat for the South Sound.
 We
fished fish long and hard for 2 days in changing conditions and had
a great time. The hot flies out of my box were the Knudson Spider
and the Ferguson’s Green and Silver. We caught a good number of
Cutts and juvenile Cohos. I include Popovics Schoolie just for the
surprise big one that got away when I set the hook on my 8 weight
(that I was trying for a while on the second day) and got the big
fish slam & break off by what Jason said was probably a mature Coho
instead of the 10-18” fish we had been landing. Most people know
about Popovics great fly the Surf Candy but I think the Schoolies
also deserve some more attention added to our saltwater boxes.
William Lovelace
Sea-Run Cutthroat Flies
    
Reverse Spider Series
  
Salt Water Flies
Schoolie
Bill Lovelace really
needs no introduction to Salmonfly.Net readers. His
prolific contributions to the site have now passed
the century mark and his eclectic collection
on these pages make him a valuable resource to
the fly-fishing community, in particular those that
wish to see a variety of steelhead styles from
different regions of the world.
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