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Out here, a "bullhead' is a sculpin. They are residents of
both fresh and saltwater and occur in quite a range of sizes. They
typically have large, flat heads and large pectoral fins with narrow, tapering
bodies
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Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 6:21
PM
Subject: Re: Searun cutts
Preston - I'm glad to hear Leland doesn't have the entire SRC
population corraled in the South Sound :-). Question - what is a "bullhead"?
Back home, it's a type of catfish. In the Sound it seems to be something like
a cabezon.
Bart
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From:
Preston Singletary
Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 4:58
PM
To: Washington Fly fishers
Subject: Sea run cutts
While the bulk of the sea-run cutthroat enter the Stilly in
the late summer
and fall, there are still fresh fish trickling in at
least as late as
February. The peak of the spawning season is in
March, but fish may be
spawning any time from December through May. I
suspect that some fish are
still heading up to spawn while others have
already returned to the salt.
I've personally caught cutthroat at Lincoln
Park and Picnic Point in
December, at Golden Gardens in January, bright,
fat fish in the Stilly at
the mouth of Pilchuck Creek in February while
steelheading, and at least one
bright, well-mended fish off the beach at
Carkeek Park in early April. Port
Susan (the area between Camano
Island and the mainland, off the mouth of the
Stilly) probably has good
numbers of fish at times, but is frequently muddy
and has very limited
access. A friend of mine, who has fished the beaches
of Camano for
many years (he lives there and has worked out a lot of deals
for his own
access, and sometimes, even then, has to use his boat to get to
some
spots) usually doesn't start to fish for cutthroat (and Dolly
Varden)
there until June. Keep in mind that fly fishing the beaches
of Puget Sound
still has more unknowns than knowns; it's still a pretty
new game.
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