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Sure they have speckled trout and gray trout, both drum, btw. But apparently there is a doctor in the Tallahassee area that stocks his pond each winter with rainbow, there are a couple of YouTube   videos of it that I stumbled on. The hand made sign in the vid said fly fishing only, may keep one fish, 25$ per person.  No contact info was given but I imagine it's out there if one wanted to find it.

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I'd like to make a correction to your list.  For Washington State--there is a Deschutes River, but it is probably not the one you are thinking of--that one is in Oregon and is a fantastic fishery.  Washington's Deschutes is a little, low-country river that probably does have searun cutts, but it is not an easy or fun river to fish. Practically every stream on the west side of the state has searun, and some of them are not only fisherman friendly but a beautiful place to fish. I'd look to the Olympic Peninsula streams, or heck, just put on your waders and fish in the salt. 

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40 minutes ago, kjackson said:

I'd like to make a correction to your list.  For Washington State--there is a Deschutes River, but it is probably not the one you are thinking of--that one is in Oregon and is a fantastic fishery.  Washington's Deschutes is a little, low-country river that probably does have searun cutts, but it is not an easy or fun river to fish. Practically every stream on the west side of the state has searun, and some of them are not only fisherman friendly but a beautiful place to fish. I'd look to the Olympic Peninsula streams, or heck, just put on your waders and fish in the salt. 

   Yep about any stream on the west side of the Cascades. It was awesome and beautiful place. We caught our coastal a ways from the salt but next time we will try along the coast. 

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Definitely fished the Deschutes in Washington. Your description of it is spot on....small, brushy river/creek. Fish were likely small resident fish vs. true sea run. 

Not a destination and as you said many much better places to fish. 

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8 hours ago, BilletHead said:

   Yep about any stream on the west side of the Cascades. It was awesome and beautiful place. We caught our coastal a ways from the salt but next time we will try along the coast. 

I'm open for intel when you decide to make the trip. No. 2 Son currently lives out there about as far west as you can go in the lower 48.

8 hours ago, Devan S. said:

Definitely fished the Deschutes in Washington. Your description of it is spot on....small, brushy river/creek. Fish were likely small resident fish vs. true sea run. 

Not a destination and as you said many much better places to fish. 

While I disparage Washington's Deschutes, I did catch a trout there on the first fly I tied, a "muddler". It wasn't much of a fly-- pheasant quill for wings and some peacock herl trailing as a tail and red chenille wrapped around the head of the fly. I was 10 at the time, so that's the reason for the non-standard pattern.  It did catch a trout, and that was important to me.

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