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It's that time of year. Football and baseball games today. Beautiful morning, so blessed.
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Hey @Matt B, not to hotspot, but surely some hallowed grounds over there, particularly during odd years :cool:. How far downstream did you paddle? Any signs of the recent oil spill? Apparently there was an uncontained oil spill not far from there after a tugboat spilled up to 150 gallons of hydraulic oil when a propeller shaft broke on Tuesday...
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Hey @Matt B, not to hotspot, but surely some hallowed grounds over there, particularly during odd years :cool:. How far downstream did you paddle? Any signs of the recent oil spill? Apparently there was an uncontained oil spill not far from there after a tugboat spilled up to 150 gallons of hydraulic oil when a propeller shaft broke on Tuesday...
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Yeah I only had a couple hours and needed some water time and wanted to scope out the new-ish hand carry launch there. It works well. Barely any parking. I didn’t go downstream at all. The wind was blowing downstream so I went upstream as far as I felt, (about to the turning basin) and got blown black. Some decent osprey action. No oil spotted.
 
That sure brings back memories. That same exact spot almost 40 years ago ('86?) I was wet wading in jeans in late March/early April while there was still some ice on the edges. WTH !?! I used a split shot on my floating fly line to chuck some sort of woolly bugger and caught my first Lahontan. Well, first one in the mouth after I foul hooked a few. I think I made it about 30 minutes until I was paralyzed by the deep freeze.

For a west-sider that lake was pretty phenomenal!

I took a photo for a guy who caught an 8 pounder that day or the next trip. One of the blonde fish.
 
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That sure brings back memories. That same exact spot almost 40 years ago ('86?) I was wet wading in jeans in late March/early April while there was still some ice on the edges. WTH !?! I used a split shot on my floating fly line to chuck some sort of woolly bugger and caught my first Lahontan. Well, first one in the mouth after I foul hooked a few. I think I made it about 30 minutes until I was paralyzed by the deep freeze.

For a west-sider that lake was pretty phenomenal!

I took a photo for a guy who caught an 8 pounder that day or the next trip. One of the blonde fish.
Great story! I moved to Ephrata in '86, it didn't take me long to find my way to Lenore. Darc tells a story of fishing the lake early in the season, no waders so he "wore" a garbage bag on each leg - probably offered him a minute or two more than you.
 
Great story! I moved to Ephrata in '86, it didn't take me long to find my way to Lenore. Darc tells a story of fishing the lake early in the season, no waders so he "wore" a garbage bag on each leg - probably offered him a minute or two more than you.
That was right about the advent of neoprene, thankfully ! I used to live in a tall dorm in Cheney at the time and I was known to leave my room on the 10th floor and jump into the elevators with waders already on and fly rod in hand if I was to fish a local lake.

Those are comfortable to sleep in as well-as many here can attest to. RF parking lot was a favorite "gravel resort" in those days.
 
For Easter the kids got boxes instead of baskets, and had to search for the contents hidden in eggs or wherever. Icky out but it's break for them so let's try it out since dads off also. When we keep we make fried fish sticks or nuggets.
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Tom,
Mine craft fanatics ? Abby is 10 and she's been addicted for at least 3 years, though she only plays in creative mode and doesn't seem to care for the adventurous features.
 
I'm pretty sure those are poisonous (not venomous!) and the fish don't eat them...but I might tie one anyway 😜
First glance , I was wondering if they are western hellbenders. Still, glad to see they haven't been erased from the earth yet
 
Tom,
Mine craft fanatics ? Abby is 10 and she's been addicted for at least 3 years, though she only plays in creative mode and doesn't seem to care for the adventurous features.
Yes they are. Even I am learning. More to it than pacman. We spend a lot of time building, and a bit of time ruining it all at the end.
 
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