Tough one Jeff, although I am in the same camp re: trout while fishing for steelhead.
Yak comes to mind, Lenore, etc. Spring creeks out over the pass, etc.
BUT... are the searuns in the lower Stilly yet? All the coastal rivers?
Here's what I'd do:
Don't go any lower than a 7 wt, tell him "the trout are really big around here". Go where the sedge are hatching, and say "man, we're gonna need to match the hatch". Tie on some big caddis skaters and say "man I just can't seem to prevent drag in this current".
Once you score a summer run he'll forget all about the trout }>
Seriously, float tubing out in Rosario? Searuns in Hood Canal is very different and unique, pick any river mouth on the inner canal - Hamma Hamma, Dosewalips, Dukabush, etc.
Upper Elwha! Nothing could be as good as that. That's where I'd go, but I would stop in the lower river to show him why we are so obsessed with 'those that go down to the sea'. Actually the lower Elwha will have big searun cutts, I landed them up to 21" in recent visits.
Fish the tail out of the orchard hole at dawn and dusk and you should have no problem hooking a steelhead while fishing for cutthroat.
GOOD LUCK!
Yak comes to mind, Lenore, etc. Spring creeks out over the pass, etc.
BUT... are the searuns in the lower Stilly yet? All the coastal rivers?
Here's what I'd do:
Don't go any lower than a 7 wt, tell him "the trout are really big around here". Go where the sedge are hatching, and say "man, we're gonna need to match the hatch". Tie on some big caddis skaters and say "man I just can't seem to prevent drag in this current".
Once you score a summer run he'll forget all about the trout }>
Seriously, float tubing out in Rosario? Searuns in Hood Canal is very different and unique, pick any river mouth on the inner canal - Hamma Hamma, Dosewalips, Dukabush, etc.
Upper Elwha! Nothing could be as good as that. That's where I'd go, but I would stop in the lower river to show him why we are so obsessed with 'those that go down to the sea'. Actually the lower Elwha will have big searun cutts, I landed them up to 21" in recent visits.
Fish the tail out of the orchard hole at dawn and dusk and you should have no problem hooking a steelhead while fishing for cutthroat.
GOOD LUCK!
