Dolly Varden

[lokidog]

Pretty fish!

Hooked one on the Tieton River many years ago that would have topped three feet if I taped it.  I managed to get it in close after a huge run downriver but busted it off five feet in front of me when I got cocky with it.  What a fish!

[Gringo31]

When I was in Naknek Alaska, we would send wheelbarrow loads of them through the grinder and back out to the river...

[JakeLand]

Ya up north they are a pest fish we would catch a lot but the sizes down here seem bigger

[Gobble Doc]

White streamer.  Swing. 

[JakeLand]

Couple skykomish river Dolly's this morning

[bearpaw]

When I was a kid we fished for Dolly Varden and Kamloops Rainbows in Kootenay Lake, BC many times every year. I usually rigged up for the Kamloops, but my dad favored the Dollies, his best Dolly was 14 pounds and some change, I miss those fishing trips. One time I even caught a huge 8 pound burbot while trolling for big trout, that was a surprise to reel that thing in, it was my biggest burbot ever and I caught it on a big plug! 

[JakeLand]

14 lb dolly WOW !!! I've caught some in the 9-10 lb range  but nothing like that! I've heard those kamloops bows really fight 

[DaveMonti]

Now you're fishing on the Sky Jake?  I have to get down there!  Were you wading or fishing from a boat?
How's the Sultan Shin Dig?

[JakeLand]

Ya Lauren's game was at 8:45 this morning so went for about an 1.5 hours. I woke up at 4:30 and decided what the hell I hooked 9 and landed 6 one of them I lost was probably the biggest so far this year! I was in n shorts and romeo's just wading around

[DaveMonti]

I may just have to get out there tomorrow morning, throw a few flies.  Were you above the falls?

[JakeLand]

Above the mouth of the Wallace river

[bearpaw]

14 lb dolly WOW !!! I've caught some in the 9-10 lb range  but nothing like that! I've heard those kamloops bows really fight 

The only places I've heard of them that big is in the big lakes like Kootenay and Lake Pend Orielle.

[JakeLand]

Hit the river again only got 2 dollies but Hooked and lost a big king

[pd]

14 lb dolly WOW !!! I've caught some in the 9-10 lb range  but nothing like that! I've heard those kamloops bows really fight 

The only places I've heard of them that big is in the big lakes like Kootenay and Lake Pend Orielle.

Dale, there is a place on the westside where the Dollies are as long as your arm.  I have never weighed them, so I can't say for sure on that one.  But they are there, no doubt about it.  I might even be able to draw you a map.   

[BigGoonTuna]

i caught one in the lower teens from the skokomish river where it runs into lake cushman back in 2000.