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Re: Dolly Varden
« Reply #45 on: July 05, 2016, 10:18:06 PM »
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!

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Re: Dolly Varden
« Reply #46 on: July 06, 2016, 04:00:24 PM »
When I was in Naknek Alaska, we would send wheelbarrow loads of them through the grinder and back out to the river...
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Re: Dolly Varden
« Reply #47 on: July 06, 2016, 04:14:56 PM »
Ya up north they are a pest fish we would catch a lot but the sizes down here seem bigger

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Re: Dolly Varden
« Reply #48 on: July 08, 2016, 09:37:34 PM »
White streamer.  Swing. 

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Re: Dolly Varden
« Reply #49 on: July 09, 2016, 12:09:35 PM »
Couple skykomish river Dolly's this morning






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Re: Dolly Varden
« Reply #50 on: July 09, 2016, 12:24:00 PM »
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!  :chuckle:
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Re: Dolly Varden
« Reply #51 on: July 09, 2016, 01:03:20 PM »
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  :tup:

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Re: Dolly Varden
« Reply #52 on: July 09, 2016, 01:53:14 PM »
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?

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Re: Dolly Varden
« Reply #53 on: July 09, 2016, 02:24:57 PM »
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

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Re: Dolly Varden
« Reply #54 on: July 09, 2016, 02:32:14 PM »
I may just have to get out there tomorrow morning, throw a few flies.  Were you above the falls?

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Re: Dolly Varden
« Reply #55 on: July 09, 2016, 03:00:22 PM »
Above the mouth of the Wallace river

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Re: Dolly Varden
« Reply #56 on: July 11, 2016, 12:46:18 PM »
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  :tup:

The only places I've heard of them that big is in the big lakes like Kootenay and Lake Pend Orielle.
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Re: Dolly Varden
« Reply #57 on: July 27, 2016, 10:10:24 PM »
Hit the river again only got 2 dollies but Hooked and lost a big king






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Re: Dolly Varden
« Reply #58 on: July 27, 2016, 10:26:19 PM »
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  :tup:

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.   8)
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Re: Dolly Varden
« Reply #59 on: July 28, 2016, 07:47:55 AM »
i caught one in the lower teens from the skokomish river where it runs into lake cushman back in 2000.
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