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Timothy Bird
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 10 ต.ค. 2013
My channel features fly fishing in the beautiful salt waters of the Pacific Northwest, most notably in the Puget Sound. I also share fly-tying tutorials. You'll mostly find me chasing Pacific salmon and Sea-run Cutthroat Trout.
Winter bottom fishing on a historic Puget Sound dock
In this video, I leave my fly rods at home and take a trip to one of my favorite old fishing haunts - the Point White Fishing Pier on Bainbridge Island. Back in the early 1900’s this place used to be a steamship dock. Then for a few years it served as a ferry dock. Nowadays, it’s a public fishing pier/park operated by the Bainbridge Island Park & Recreation district. I’d hoped to pick up some flatfish, but the local crabs had other ideas!
Music Credits:
Royalty Free Music from Tunetank.com Track: Rainy Streets by Finval tunetank.com/track/1753-rainy-streets/
Royalty Free Music from Tunetank.com Track: Lift Me Up by Anuch tunetank.com/track/415-lift-me-up/
Royalty Free Music from Tunetank.com Track: Summer Lounge Story by IsaevIlnarMusic tunetank.com/track/5945-summer-lounge-story/
Music Credits:
Royalty Free Music from Tunetank.com Track: Rainy Streets by Finval tunetank.com/track/1753-rainy-streets/
Royalty Free Music from Tunetank.com Track: Lift Me Up by Anuch tunetank.com/track/415-lift-me-up/
Royalty Free Music from Tunetank.com Track: Summer Lounge Story by IsaevIlnarMusic tunetank.com/track/5945-summer-lounge-story/
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A classic fly for Sea-run cutthroat trout - Ferguson's Green and Silver
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In this video I show how to tie an easy all-round saltwater pattern from the 1970’s - the late Bruce Ferguson’s Green and Silver. This pattern was first devised to take Coho salmon feeding on zooplankton, but it will take Sea-run cutthroat trout year-round. Here’s the recipe: Hook: Mustad 34011 or S74sap #6 Thread: 6/0 or 140d black Tail: white calf tail or bucktail Body rear: flat silver diamo...
How to tie the Stopper-Popper for Sea run Cutthroat Trout
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Sea-run cutthroat trout are easily persuaded to strike at topwater fly patterns such as the Miyawaki Beach Popper. Sadly, the hook-up rate for such patterns is extremely low. The attractiveness of the topwater fly can, however, be exploited by treating it simply as an attractor, and trailing a small subsurface fly close behind it on a dropper. In this video, I demonstrate a version of the Beach...
Tying a forgotten Sea Run Cutthroat fly the American Coachman!
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Here’s a great old-time fly pattern that once was very popular in the Pacific Northwest. It still catches Sea-Run Cutthroat trout in freshwater and on the saltwater beaches.
Fishing the Stopper-Popper-Dropper and Thanksgiving Musings
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One of my subscribers, a renowned fly-fisherman from Vancouver Island, e-mailed me a few weeks ago to let me know of a new method he’s come up with for fishing beach popper-style flies in B.C. Basically, he just uses the beach popper as an attractor, while trailing a wet fly behind it. This is, of course, a similar approach to the familiar ‘hopper-dropper’, but used here in a novel way for sea-...
Update on the Flybox Giveaway. The flies are still unclaimed!
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UPDATE: I selected a winner. Congratulations to @KevinK178. Kevin, you need to contact me with your mailing address. Please scroll down to your comment and you'll see I replied with an email address where you can contact me. This is a very short update on the Flybox giveaway that I posted earlier in November th-cam.com/video/gyllbe7-I2o/w-d-xo.html Many people said they’d like the flies and I p...
Tying the Puget Sound Sand Lance plus Flybox giveaway!
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In this video, I’ll show you how to tie a simple sand lance imitation for Coho Salmon. Also, to mark my channel getting 1000 subscribers, I’m pleased to give away a box of flies specially tied for Sea-Run Cutthroat. If you’d like to get into this fishery, then you can’t go wrong with this selection! If you’d like the flies, all you have to do is leave a comment to that effect on this video. I’l...
Fly-fishing for Sea-run Cutthroat Trout - my favorite season!
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The fall months are my favorite time of year to chase Sea-run Cutthroat trout in Puget Sound. The summer crowds and the hordes of salmon anglers are gone, there’s no weed in the water, and the gentle showers and overcast skies make for good fishing conditions. On this particular day I had the beach to myself and enjoyed perfect fly-fishing weather. Now, if the fish would just cooperate! Royalty...
Fly fishing for salmon: a rainy morning at Eglon
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Join me as I visit a Central Puget Sound beach that is well-known to many fly-fisherman, and a popular spot to fish in the late summer/early fall. In my local area, saltwater fishing for salmon is now closed, and this was my final session for the 2024 season. By all accounts, even if the fish were a little late to appear, this year has seen a pretty strong run of Coho - hopefully a good sign of...
Coho on the fly: season highlights from Point No Point
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Here’s a compilation of raw footage I shot while fly-fishing for Coho salmon at Point No Point, WA. over six different days in August and September 2024. For the most part, there’s no commentary - just sea, sky and some fish! (I cheated a little with the Orca near the end: I filmed that while fishing in the same spot in August 2022). Music Credits Royalty Free Music from Tunetank.com Track: Aco...
I catch my first 'keeper' Coho salmon of the year
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In this video, I’m tying and fishing a pattern that was featured in Richard Stoll’s ‘Fly Fishing Inshore Waters for Pacific Salmon’(2012). My first time using the ‘Coho Special”, I catch a nice hatchery Coho salmon. I’ve subsequently caught other good fish on this fly, and it’s earned a regular spot in my rotation! MATERIALS LIST: Front hook: Mustad 34007 #4 Rear hook: Gamakatsu red Octopus #4 ...
Tying and fishing the Squilpin: a streamer for sea-run cutthroat trout
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In this video, I’m fishing for sea-run cutthroat in the saltwater, using a fly I’ve been developing off and on over the last month or so. This is the final version which works best for me. Although I’m calling it a ‘sculpin pattern’, it lacks some of the features you’d normally associate with a sculpin imitation - it doesn’t have eyes, for instance, and it swims with the hook point down. Althou...
A Puget Sound baitfish pattern - the Bobby Dazzler jig
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In this video, I start off by fishing with a new snag-resistant fly, designed to quickly get down in fast-flowing water. The second half is a demonstration of how to tie the pattern. The materials for the fly are as follows: Hook: Mustad J60XAP Bead: 4mm tungsten slotted bead, silver Thread Uni 6/0 white Tail: white Supreme Hair with 2 strands of opal Lateral Scale (1/69”) on each side Body: re...
A great morning's fly fishing in the saltwater at Irondale beach
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I had a relaxing morning fishing for sea-run cutthroat at Irondale Beach Park in Jefferson County, WA. This was only my second time fishing at this location, and, though the fish weren’t huge, they were eager to chase my streamer. Here’s the tackle I used: Rod: TFO Axiom II, 6 wt. Reel: TFO BVK SD size II Line: Scientific Anglers Sonar Titan full intermediate, 6 wt. Fly: Spawn Fly Fish Chum Fry...
Fly fishing for sea run cutthroat trout on a minus tide
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A quick low-water session on one of my favorite Hood Canal beaches. Just when I was beginning to despair of finding SRC on my local waters, I surprised myself with a couple of nice fish! The fly I'm using here is basically the same as in my previous video. The tying instructions can be found here: th-cam.com/video/HVTbX8vcYCs/w-d-xo.html
April: fly-fishing for sea-runs in Hood Canal
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April: fly-fishing for sea-runs in Hood Canal
Tying and Fishing Kent's Stealth Bomber for Sea Run Cutthroat trout
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Tying and Fishing Kent's Stealth Bomber for Sea Run Cutthroat trout
Catching sea run cutthroat trout on the Titanic top-water fly
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Catching sea run cutthroat trout on the Titanic top-water fly
fly-fishing knots and leaders for pacific salmon and Sea-run cutthroat
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fly-fishing knots and leaders for pacific salmon and Sea-run cutthroat
Fly fishing for Pink Salmon at Point No Point
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Fly fishing for Pink Salmon at Point No Point
Fly fishing for Coho Salmon at Marrowstone Point
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Fly fishing for Coho Salmon at Marrowstone Point
Catching a sea run cutthroat trout from a secluded beach
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Catching a sea run cutthroat trout from a secluded beach
Tying and fishing a classic sea-run cutthroat fly: the Borden Special
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Tying and fishing a classic sea-run cutthroat fly: the Borden Special
Hi Timothy, I enjoy your videos, thank you. I often chase SRC’s around Kitsap and Jefferson…live on BI. I’d love to fish with you sometime.
Maybe I am missing it but it would be awesome to hear about the rigs you use besides the fly (intermediate, floating, leader, wt, etc.) Thanks
@@JackSzczepanowski No problem. My go-to rig for this type of fly is as follows: six weight full-intermediate line (Scientific Anglers Sonar Titan) plus 9ft leader consisting of either 8lb test fluorocarbon straight through OR 6ft of 15lb fluorocarbon attached to 3ft of 8lb fluorocarbon with a triple surgeon’s loop. For the attachment of my fly, I tend to use a non-slip loop (“Lefty Kreh knot”) in almost all circumstances. On some of my reels I have Rio Outbound Short full intermediate instead of the Sonar Titan. If I fish a floating line, I use either Orvis Bank Shot or Rio Outbound Short Float in 5 or 6 weight, and I’ll switch out the fluorocarbon for a Rio Powerflex tapered nylon leader in either 1X - 2X (for big bugs like Miyawaki Poppers) or 2X - 3X (for smaller topwater flies like gurglers or for fishing small wet flies just under the surface)
@ Thank you very much…really helpful
Black Pool??? Is that what Ggeorge Harrison was talking about when he said they use to go see Black Pool Lights?¿?¿0.0
@@joeperez2771 Yes, that’s right. The official name for it was the “Blackpool Illuminations”. A huge draw when I was a kid.
Snooz fest……
If you walk out to the other side of hood head there's a spit that goes out into the water and somebody built a driftwood sea monster on that spit I've walked around there from seven sisters Lane
Timothy, I just ran into your former neighbor, Adrian.
Hello Sir, Just stumbled upon your chnl. Long time PNW fly fisherman here but mostly float tubing high mountain or desert lakes. Thank you for the pro-tip about loading the box. Seems remedial yeah, AFTER we Figure it out RIGHT? Lol.. if I had a spool me Lunker for every lesson learned the hard way I’d be king of tall fish tales. Sharing experience is appreciated. From the float tube we never had to consider that as our line always had the hammock to work the line from so I wouldn’t have known how to use the box properly. CHEERS.. One thing I did notice, besides your beautiful casting, is your consistency in retrieval. While fish are fish and all act like fish conditions dictate our methods as much as anything. Lake fishing we learned that as we worked the extents of the fan edge we would retrieve for a cycle (left, right) with say a strip strip strip retrieve, then the next we might use strip strip pause, strip strip pause for a cycle, then maybe an overhand retrieval and on and on until we found what combination fly/retrieval produced strikes then we’d share with our “armada” (group name for floating buddies) at break time and then we’d ALL go sleigh it! Usually a rousing round of fly bartering would occur and someone would get razzed about how they tied their bead head flash back pheasant tail or for not having any brown wollybuggers. Lol. I miss being capable of such joys. I miss those times, CHEERS… I hope this tip we learned on lakes where you land a fish every cast OR not at all fishing right next to each other- Olalie lake during hatch… CrainPraire or Davis Lakes in the snow… One year CrainPrairie took 7 of us Seasoned fisherman, with a skiff and fish finder to cheat for where to fish, 2.5 days of NOTHING! (And we fished this spot 3-4x a year together) before we found where the biting fish were and how to approach it. Dead drifting an olive hares ear on our floating line rig with ZERO retrieving just drifting. Ever see 7 20+” trout being fought at the same time where the biggest fish are tangling in your buddies feet if your only fishing a 4#. LOL.. good times… key pro-tip for those times to prevent premature catchNrelease. As soon as you hook up get the fish on the reel. Fighting fish on the real instead of trying to manage line by had is a game changer for landing percentages in lake fishing. No clue if it is useful for the style I have seen you fish but I sure am grateful to get to see how its done by a skilled angler like you. Cheers
Beautiful fish ,looks delicious..
At least you caught some “ peace of mind”…
@@finaboykm that’s what it’s all about.
Where's the fish?
No Chair or Beer? WTF?
Hi, I’m just seeing this for the first time and I don’t know where this beach is. Looks like highway 302 from Purdy heading out to the Peninsula, which is known for sea run cutthroat. Please message me where it is for sure thank you.
@@garyhobbs2356 It’s Scenic Beach State Park, near Seabeck.
@ great thank you!
That’s a Diawa bg30
@@jamesbogdan3991 Sure is. It’s still pretty much like new. I was surprised to see how these things are changing hands for $100’s
@ I have 2 one for saltwater and one for freshwater, love the wooden handle!!
Quit with the music please like the video
Good. I’m not the only one from the other side of the pond that messes around that’s parts.
Good for you Timothy, Puget Sound is full of stuff to do in nature.
It certainly is.
I had good luck as a kid dropping straight down and the weight just off the bottom..thanks for the video.. enjoyed
Thanks!
Used to catch Kings off the Edmonds Pier back in the 70s and 80s
I think people still sometimes get them there.
What an absolutely wonderful video. PNW is my home. Thank you for sharing a beautiful piece of your life with the public. 😊
Thank you for your kind comment.
Good old bullhead fishing. Spent many a days with a hunk of hotdog on a hook catching and releasing dozens of bull heads ti learn how to fish
They're certainly in plentiful supply
Don't waste your money on frozen herring. The only thing you will catch is dogfish sharks.
Sharpen the hooks, better yet.... I have a suggestion because I have fished off the piers all around the Puget Sound for decades. Switch to a lead headed jig with various curly tailed plastic worms for cod. FSTs or silver spoons for searun cutthroat close to shore. Casting and reeling is more active and covers ground and fun.
About 20 years ago I went fishing with my uncle, I cut the dog fish up in about 1" slices and threw them to the seagulls.
Is this on hoods canal ?
No, its to the East of Hood Canal - Port Orchard
@timothybird7008 oh okay thanks a bunch
No, and it’s Hood Canal 😂
@@reecec8490 well we.here folks in rochester call it.hoods canal
@@reecec8490 in fact we just drove back from Anacortes and went by Hoods canal . 🙂😂🤣
Those are bull heads
They're Pacific Staghorn Sculpins. Bullhead is a nickname.
I really liked your video, but I’m curious as to why you don’t set the hook when you’re getting a bite?? That would eliminate most of the fish spitting the hook while you’re reeling in.
@@JesseThomas-v8c I do set the hook whenever I get a positive bite, most of those ‘bites’ were clearly just crabs which are going to drop off anyway. I missed one good bite that was shown on the video while I was messing with camera batteries.
Enjoyed your video. I used to fly fish Marrowstone Point frequently and always had confidence on a good ebb. Caught my first coho from the beach there on a similar calm morning around 2012, then proceeded to catch several cutts during the flood tide at the nearby cut. Glad to see it hasn’t changed. Nice production, keep em coming!
Loved that area when I was stationed on a carrier in drydock. Seattle was an awesome town in the 70s too. Hung out at Peter's Inn at 3rd and Cherry since they had all you could eat Spaghetti lunch and dinner for $3.00 LOL. Used to fish off the pier on base for cod, sometimes bringing some to the mess deck to trade for munchies to the Pinoy cooks. Different world back then
Have you ever fished for squid?
No. There are lots of nearby squid fishing opportunities near me, but it always looks to be very crowded - not really my idea of a good time, but maybe I'll give it a try some time.
Everything was going good and I was feeling amazing about this and then you showed the picture of you guys wearing. The 49ers jackets. Instantly became enemy number one just kidding, but it did hit me like that.
Ha! At the time, James was a great fan of Jerry Rice. He's a Seahawks fan now. My jacket in that picture was just a plain red windbreaker, although ironically, I AM now a 49ers guy!!
Where do you fish for sea run cutthroat?
All through Hood Canal, and various Puget sound locations in Kitsap, Jefferson and Pierce Counties. Check out my other videos for the actual locations.
Monster crab 🦀
There are plenty of good spots around. This just isn’t one of them. Not enough structure. Dogfish can be good there, lol. Still loved tje video!
You're right - but I still used to enjoy fishing there. I've caught many a dogfish from that pier!
Well Tim, at least you know what kind of bait to use when crab season rolls around! Great video. Watching from across the water in Seattle:)
I live up near Point Agate, and the fishing is not much different. We usually take the boat north to the straight, out towards the coast, or we river fish. Pier fishing in the Sound is really hit or miss
Not really my type of fishing these days, either.
Just an observation, you're not setting the hook, you pick up the reel and start reeling lol maybe set that hook and see if they stay on better
Would have kept that Crab 🦀🦀🦀🦀 and he would have got a warm tub of water and a side of rice 🍚🍚🍚🍚 and mixed veggies......
I don't think it was legal, or I'd be cooking it up too.
Thanks for the memory's. It helps me remember why I quit fishing the Puget sound. No Fish.
nothing from the piers. But if you have a kayak or boat, different story
There are still fish to be found!
No there's still fish. You can still catch bottomfish and some salmon in the summer and a lot of squid in the winter from the piers
But it costed an extra $10 for the puget sound restoration fee for 2 decades, on the back of your fishing license!!
My buddy and I took out our kayaks about 100ft out from shore right on a drop off. Caught tons of fish. My buddy even reeled up a baby octopus
lol, those Dungees and Red Rocks know it's January and we have to throw them back! They think its a free buffet...
just me sir. i never put a big weight on in slow curent. this is just me. just takes to much see movement.
Good advice.
@@timothybird7008 not advice kind sir. its just what i use to do.
I recently starting fishing again after 20 years. Went back to my favorite spot and caught my limit.
I love eating Coho but never caught one. I hope this year to make it to the Columbia river, Oregon area. I don’t have a boat so I’ll try shore fishing. Do you ever sell your homemade Feathers ?
Awesome! Reminds me of those times fishing with pops!
Come to Snohomish, and fish the Snohomish River... Lots of good fishing here
how fun thanks for sharing a piece of washington that i need to visit
Glad you enjoyed it.
You’ve gotta set the hook when they hit!
Used to fish with those reels a long time ago! Wish I still had them! Caught a lot of fish with them off the docks around the area there!
They sure are heavy, but built very well.
I have caught enough cod with just split-shot and hook off a pier in Puget Sound, to sink a ship. Your rig is far too complicated for simply fishing off a pier. Just sayin. Thanks for the Vlog
Time to switch to a crab snare. One of those looked big enough to keep and was male.
Do you need a license to fish from a pier in Washington? Why did you throw the big crab back? We would have eaten it.
If you're over 16yrs old you've got to have a license for any type of fishing in WA. For the piers either a Saltwater or Combination License. The big crab went back because of several reasons. First, I don't have a crab catch record card; second, I didn't have anything with me to measure if it was legal-sized; third, I don't believe its legal to keep them if they've been hooked on rod and line (not 100% sure on this, but I didn't want to risk it); finally, I wasn't sure if the season is even open. This is Marine Area 10, and they sometimes don't have a winter Dungeness crab season at all, or it can be restricted to just one or two days per week - I had no idea if it was open or not.
@@timothybird7008 Thank-you for your answer. Is there an open salmon season in Washington?
@@johnkrebs3198 It’s complicated and depends on the area (many different river systems, marine areas, and open ocean all have different rules for salmon). The five different salmon species also have their own rules when it comes to retention. As if that wasn’t enough, some of those species-specific rules are different depending on if the fish is wild or hatchery-raised. But basically, all salmon fishing is closed in WA until, generally, some time in July. The exact opening dates and length of season are decided in the spring and are determined by the forecast number of returning salmon of the various species. The Dept. of Fish and Wildlife notifies sport fisherman of season openings and closures via online bulletins and “emergency rules” updates which change all the time.
@ FYI California allows anyone to fish from a manmade structure (e.g., a pier or a jetty) withouit a license. California has not has a salmon season for the last two years and likely again this year except for hatchery salmon stocked in some the larger reservoirs. When we have had a salmon season only chinooks were legal and the regulations varied by lattitude and the various rivers. Thank-you for answering.