South Fork Snoqualmie River

Deciding to make the drive from Bellingham to the SF Snoqualmie today. Left the house around 11, a couple quick stops and I was on the upper river by 1:30 and fished until 6:30. Started off with a yellow stimulator picking up a few cutts here and there. Switched to a para adams and caught a bunch of cutts on a couple of tailouts. Also fished an EHC for a while and caught a few fish on that too. One thing I always find interesting about this stretch of the SF is how varied the coloring is on these cutthroat, some look like westslopes and are either dark or light, some look like coastal cutthroat, and some look like a hybrid between the two. Even the coloration and spotting is so varied between the westslopes as shown in the pics. Didn't get any pics of the coastals. Anyways, here are the pics :thumb:

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Fatty #1
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Jon

Fatty #2
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Look at the color on this one!
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That last guy is coloring up like a true coastal cutty. Nice pics Foo.

Seems to be running low and clear already.

The flows are close to perfect right now. Was flowing about 190cfs yesterday and looks like 180 today and steadily dropping. I like it best around 120-150cfs. This is also pretty high up in the river so when the flows are REALLY low, it's not much more than a creek up there.