Searun Cuts & Steelhead on the OR coast

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyv-SgZEyEM

[Jed Peters]

Did someone say Searun cutts?

They are purty fish.

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e38/jedpeters/DSC_0148_zps870f8dd6.jpg

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

Thanks Jed...

Some day I want to go after them for a week or so on the Oregon Coast.

I guess they are from Eureka, CA all the way up north to Alaska?

Bob Borden, founder of Hareline Products in Oregon, is supposed to be a Searun Cut guy....

Some once said at times they are a little like Smallmouth Bass in a river. They hang around structure......

[pvsprme]

Fished them a lot as a kid in the 60-70's on Northern Oregon Coast; they can be like SMB, around structure, but as anadromous fish, here today, gone tomorrow. Good thing is, find one, there's more to be had. Had them smash dry flies and refuse small bucktails. Not an easy fish, but they can be so easy it's ridiculous. Jed, that's a beauty. WFF board had a 21+" fish picture on the board, taken in the sound, a beauty.

[Mike O]

When the lagoons north of Eureka bust open to the Pacific (Big, Little, Freshwater), it can happen there. I just caught smolts up that direction once.

[AnadromousFly]

There are a lot of great cuts in the Miami, Kilchis, and Trask rivers too.

[pvsprme]

Some beauties on here:

http://www.washingtonflyfishing.com/forum/index.php?threads/perfect-coastal-cutthroat.81797/

http://www.washingtonflyfishing.com/forum/index.php?threads/october-is-for-sea-run-cutts.82834/