Any pointers for salmon on the fly?

[Jacob McD]

I have been trying to get onto some salmon on the fly rod for the past week, this morning I was dancing my flies right in front of them and still getting no strike. The pattern I am throwing is an egg sucking leech streamer in various colors like purple, black, green, white.. etc. I throw a little BB about 12" in front of the fly to help get it down to the appropriate depth to get it right in front of them. I have never fished salmon before, is this what its normally like? do you just keep slapping them with the fly until eventually they get fed up and smack it? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[intothedeep]

Like you new to salmon, but went out twice this year. First day got 4 to hit, no snags and the fish were fresh fresh. Came back a week later hoping for a new run, but same fish, now old and beaten up. Zero bites, one accidental snag. Was fishing high up stream too near the dam. I think freshness counts.

The one I landed first day, bead head woolly bugger on a float rig. Deep hooked too, so he ate it...

[Goosesniper]

Are these Atlantic or pacific salmon

[Jacob McD]

Pacific salmon

[Jacob McD]

There are also some rainbow trout up as well I saw a few guys catching them today on roe bags, any recommendation for flies to use to fall rainbows. I tried tossing out my royal coachman but they just weren't interested in a dry fly.

[Hunter John]

for the rainbows I would go with a large stonefly nymph or a single egg pattern.

[Jacob McD]

I managed to land 5 salmon tonight the biggest was 16lb's it's safe to say I am hooked on fly fishing and it only gets better the bigger the fish. Looking forward to catching some more salmon tmrw.

[fishfreek]

I managed to land 5 salmon tonight the biggest was 16lb's it's safe to say I am hooked on fly fishing and it only gets better the bigger the fish. Looking forward to catching some more salmon tmrw.

Good for you, I don't know what river/creek you fished but the ones I drove by were all blown out and chocolate stained.

[BryanG]

Fish egg flys, streamers, wooly buggers and the like been smackin bows lately

[Jacob McD]

I managed to go out yesterday for a couple hours I landed 2 decent sized salmon, and just as I was getting ready to leave the river I hooked onto a 25lb Chinook. Was the longest battle I have ever had, took me around 40 minutes to land the fish, didn't bring a net so couldn't land it as fast as I would have liked to. All in all really enjoying my time with salmon, I am hopeful to get into some of the trailing rainbow's saw a few yesterday but just couldn't get the hook set.