The 2023 Edmonds Coho Salmon Derby was held Saturday, Sept. 9, with sunny skies and glassy smooth water on Puget Sound, where 911 hopeful anglers set out in search of a lunker big enough to win them a share of over $25,000 of cash and prizes. Included in the derby pool were 77 youth participants…
The Olympic Fly Fishers of Edmonds club meetings will resume after the club’s summer break, starting Tuesday, Sept. 12 at the Lake Ballinger Center (formerly the Mountlake Terrace Community Senior Center), 23000 Lakeview Dr., Mountlake Terrace. The doors open at 5:30 p.m. and the meeting will be from 6-8:30 p.m. Be entertained and educated by…
Decades of data show that despite billions in taxpayer investment, salmon and steelhead hatchery programs and restoration projects in the Columbia River Basin have failed to support or boost native fish populations and in fact are contributing to their decline. Oregon State University economics professor William Jaeger and Mark Scheuerell, a biologist with the U.S….
July 1 is opening day for recreational crabbing in Puget Sound. Each year an estimated 12,000 crab pots are lost in Puget Sound, resulting in the capture of an estimated 180,000 Dungeness crab a year with no one to harvest them. The Snohomish County Marine Resources Committee (MRC) and the Northwest Straits Foundation continue to…
The Olympic Fly Fishers of Edmonds will welcome speaker Norman Maktima to the group’s Tuesday, June 13 meeting at the Mountlake Terrace Community Senior Center, 23000 Lakeview Dr., Mountlake Terrace. Maktima will speak via Zoom on “The Competitor’s Approach to Fly Fishing — my approach to rivers and stillwaters.” A true indigenous native of the…
Lance Egan will speak on the topic of Euro-Nymping during the Olympic Fly Fishers of Edmonds meeting set for Tuesday, May 9 at the Mountlake Terrace Community Senior Center, 23000 Lakeview Drive. Egan, who will speak via Zoom, is a three-time national fly fishing champion and is a current member of Fly Fishing Team USA….
The Olympic Fly Fishers of Edmonds will welcomes Mike Schmuck on Tuesday, April 11 from 6-8 p.m. at the Mountlake Terrace Community Senior Center. Schmuck has been the District 5 (Adams and Grant counties) fish biologist for the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife since 2018. He primarily manages recreational trout fisheries and he will…
The City of Mountlake Terrace is partnering with the Washington State Council of Fly Fishers International to hold a Fly Casting Fair from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, April 29 at Ballinger Park. Classes available for registration include beginning, advanced, youth, women’s, and one- and two-handed spey casting classes. The event is open to…
The Olympic Fly Fishers of Edmonds will welcome guest speaker Nate Brumley on Tuesday, March 14, from 6-8 p.m. A dry fly specialist, Brumley will present “Stillwater Dry Fly fishing” via Zoom at the Mountlake Terrace Community Senior Center, 23000 Lakeview Drive, Mountlake Terrace. Brumley is owner of Dry Fly Innovations and author of two dry…
The Olympic Fly Fishers is sponsoring a six-session Beginning Fly-Tying Class that will provide detailed instructions on the fundamentals and some advanced techniques of fly tying. Whether you are a beginner, someone who wants to enhance her/his techniques or someone who just enjoys fly-tying camaraderie, this class is for you. The class instructor is John…
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Olympic Fly Fishers of Edmonds welcomes Rick Passek as its featured speaker during the group’s January meeting, set for Tuesday, Jan. 10,from 6-8 p.m. A still water specialist, Passek will present “Beginning Fly Fishing” via Zoom during the meeting, at the Mountlake Terrace Community Senior Center, 23000 Lakeview Drive, Mountlake Terrace. When not fishing, Passek spends his…
The Washington State Department of Health has issued a fish consumption advisory for Lake Washington, Lake Meridian and Lake Sammamish after finding perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) in several types of fish. PFOS comes from a family of chemicals known as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), sometimes called “forever chemicals.” There is strong evidence from animal studies…
Bill Marts and his filmmaking brother Boyd will present “Wind, Sand and Trout — A Photographic Journey of Early Eastern Washington Lakes” at the Tuesday, Nov. 8 Olympic Fly Fishers meeting. The program will take attendees on a photographic journey back in time for a look at the fascinating history of Eastern Washington lakes after…
Featured speaker at the Olympic Fly Fishers of Edmonds Oct. 11 meeting will be Keith Stamm, who will be talking about fly fishing in the area. A long-time member of Olympic Fly Fishers, Stamm grew up in Wisconsin near the famous ”Driftless Area” spring creeks, which were his home waters. After earning his Ph.D in…
Recreational crabbing opened Friday in Puget Sound, and the Snohomish County Marine Resources Committee (MRC) and the Northwest Straits Foundation have suggestions for crabbers to prevent the loss of crab pots. Each year, an estimated 12,000 crab pots are lost in Puget Sound, resulting in the capture of an estimated 180,000 Dungeness crab a year with…
Jim Pankierwicz will speak on “Carp On the Fly” at the Tuesday, June 14 meeting of the Olympic Fly Fishers of Edmonds. Pankierwicz will discuss settings and types of water to fish, carp behaviors and strategies for catching them on flies. You can find more information and a brief video here. The meeting will be at…
Brian O’Keefe is the featured speaker at the May meeting of the Olympic Fly Fishers of Edmonds Tuesday, May 10 from 6 to 8:30 p.m. at the Mountlake Terrace Community Senior Center, 23000 Lakeview Dr., Mountlake Terrace. O’Keefe has traveled the world fly fishing and photographing. He has long been a contributor to fly fishing magazines…
The Olympic Fly Fishers of Edmonds at its April monthly meeting presented a $1,500 check to the Edmonds Stream Team, made up of students from the Meadowdale High School Environmental Club and the Edmonds-Woodway High School Students Saving Salmon Club. The money will be used to buy additional equipment for the students, who collect field…
Olympic Fly Fishers of Edmonds will meet in person at the Mountlake Terrace Community Senior Center from 6 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, April 12, with speaker David Schorsch, a retired fly fishing guide. Doors will open at 5:30 p.m. The club also announced that with a membership that is 10% women, it now has a women’s…
The Washington State Department of Health has issued a health advisory for consumption of sturgeon from the lower Columbia River. The advisory extends from the mouth of Columbia (see A on map below) upriver to the Bonneville Dam (see B on map). The advisory, in accordance with findings from the Oregon Health Authority, recommends limiting…
On Sunday morning, volunteers from the Puget Sound Angler Association SnoKing chapter (PSA) — along with Port of Edmonds employees — spent two hours moving the coho salmon fish pen, which has been moored in the marina for the past three weeks, out to the Edmonds fishing pier. This pen was initially stocked with 30,000…
The March meeting of the Olympic Fly Fishers of Edmonds will be Tuesday, March 8 from 6-9 p.m. at the Mountlake Terrace Community Senior Center. The featured speaker will be Jerry Burton, author of Complete Guide to Successful Chironomid Fishing. The meeting is limited to members only and at this point in time, proof of…
On Tuesday morning, two Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) trucks arrived at the Edmonds Marina with 30,000 coho salmon smolt, to be transferred to the coho fish pen moored in the marina. Puget Sound Anglers Association volunteers offloaded the fish into the pen and placed two nets over the top to protect the…
On Saturday, volunteers from the Puget Sound Anglers Association Sno-King Chapter assembled the 2022 version of the coho salmon net pen in Edmonds. In a couple of weeks, 30,000 salmon from the Issaquah fish hatchery will be introduced to Edmonds waters. After spending a few months below the Edmonds pier for imprinting, they will be…
The Olympic Fly Fishers of Edmonds has a mission to promote the sport of fly fishing through education, conservation and camaraderie — and it invites those interested to join the organization. Club members participated in a hybrid in-person/Zoom meeting earlier this week — the first time the club has met in-person since the pandemic — featuring…
