Cedar River, WA

One of my co-workers really wanted me to take him fly fishing and I knew about this river near our work in Federal Way. I also knew that I was going to be working with Project Healing Waters that weekend and thought this would be a good opportunity to go scout the river and see what would work and what would not. We starter at the park next to Highway 18 where the river flows under the trail and then under the highway. There were lots of people playing at the park so we waited our way up river. Upstream we found some nice holds behind rocks and a few deep cuts. Fishing each of them we were able to land a few fish but nothing of real size.
Still interested in exploring the river we got in the truck and headed up to Landsburg where I had heard of some more fishing opportunity. I felt that we were in the right spot because there were others getting off the water and still some showing up to go out. We ventured a good half mile down the trail to what seemed like a good couple holes. After hammering the first hole for sometime, having no success, we were just about to work down river, when another fisherman graciously walked through the bottom of our hole and into the one we were eying. Figuring not to make too much of a stink we instead packed up and headed out for the day. Word to the wise, be courteous when fishing around others. Ask if you are going to fish close and give as much space as you can. Heck let them fish it and come back to the hole when they are gone.

Summary:
Location: Cedar River out of Maple Valley and Landsburg.
Time: 3pm - 8pm
Rod: 5 wt w/ floating line, 5 wt w/ sinking tip
Tackle: 8 black stone nymph, 18 olive prince,14 sparkle elk hair caddis, 14 tan elk hair caddis, 12 parachute adams; would try pmd's, ped's, orange stones, and later in the year more nymphs.
Fish: 8
Species: Rainbows
Biggest Fish: 8"
Smallest Fish: 5"
Rating: 7/10