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Thanks! There's lots of these little seep lakes to explore and fish, so we don't necessarily need to fish the same ones. You can find your own "secret" lake that no one else fishes and probably find some nice fish.

Glad you enjoyed the photo! I love the way the setting sun lights up the basalt cliffs with that orange-brown color. I rarely use dry flies on the lakes, except for the Traveling Sedge hatches up in BC. If a fish spends 90% of their time feeding under the water surface, then it probably is...

Tried a small seep lake in central WA yesterday, another general regulation lake that requires a hike to get into it. It can be a very temperamental lake, sometimes producing no fish, often only small fish, but once in a while, it will only have large, chunky fish, but not many of them. This...

Good work on catching those chunky fish in spite of the wind, hike and low water conditions! Nice photos and cool that you saw the sun halo! It is interesting that no other year classes were hooked; sometimes all you'll catch in that lake will be small fish. Just never know what you'll find...

Welcome to the forum! What a nice report with gorgeous photos! Nice to see that you're able to get your wife and daughter to go with you on these outings!

Tried a different, general regulation seep lake this past week, and the water temperature has cooled down a little more; 62 to 65 degrees now. Fishing was tough; only landed 4 rainbows, but 3 were nice ones (10, 19, 20 and 21 inchers; all were released). All the fish took a BH Dark Brown...

Good guesstimate, Billy! On average, I land around 500 fish each year (usually a mixture of trout, bass, shad and salmon). At most, I might keep 10 fish during the year. Thus, I usually release 98% of the fish I land. That's why my fisheries biologist friend was trying to get me to retain...

Sorry... SBH stands for a silver bead head; if I just say BH, by default that will be a black bead head, and almost always a tungsten bead. A BBH will be a brass bead head. I don't use other colors of bead heads, so that will pretty much cover it. A BH will provide the most jigging action on...

The main reason I might keep an occasional fish these days is to thoroughly examine the stomach contents to see what they are eating to grow so big and fat. One of the fisheries biologists I used to keep in contact with would encourage me to keep more fish so he could get a better idea of what...

Thought I'd check out one of the seep lakes to see how the water temperatures are doing in central WA. Still fairly warm at 66 to 68 degrees F. No one was out there, so I had this small, general regulation lake to myself all day, which is good if you like solitude. Fishing was very slow; I...

I was hoping to find some 8 pounders at this lake, but I'll have to give it another try in the future. You're right, there are a ton of lakes up there to try, so you definitely won't run out of lakes to fish.

Yeah, it was a small SBH Dark Olive Rabbit Fur Leech, so nothing special. I did try water boatmen patterns, but they didn't work, maybe because there didn't seem to be any water boatmen at this lake, or maybe because the fish were keyed in on daphnia. Up in BC they say that when the fish are...

Last week I drove up to a new lake for me near 100 Mile House (which doesn't reveal anything, as there are hundreds of lakes in that area, for anyone concerned about hotspotting). The fishing was surprisingly tough, as I only landed 4 fish in two days of fishing, but they were nice fish (here...

Thought some of you might be interested in knowing that Sportsman's Warehouse (at least the one I went to in Federal Way) is having a 50% off sale on life vests. On the same rack with a bunch of cheap life vests were about a dozen NRS Chinook PFD and other NRS models. It wasn't clear that the...

Sounds delicious! I think crappie are the best tasting of the spiny rays here in WA (not that I eat that many spiny rays). Crappie are usually big enough to make it worth the effort to fillet them.

I must have lucked out, as I didn't even think about having a level horizon; just pointed and shot with my phone camera. I rarely edit my photos due to lack of time, but if I was a book writer like you, maybe I'd be more conscientious about this kind of thing. Also, now that you've brought it...

Tried to escape the heat by heading higher in elevation, in this case, to a Thompson-Nicola BC lake around the 4,000 foot elevation range. You'll probably recognize this lake if you've been there. I'd never fished this small lake before, but heard that there were some big fish in it. This was...

Yes, that was me in the silver Outback Wilderness. As I wrote earlier, I found the shad fishing was really tough for most of Friday late afternoon/evening until after sunset and before dusk, when the fish became active for a short period. Early Saturday morning was better, but I usually find...

Made it down to the Columbia River this past Friday afternoon to check out the state of the shad run. Saw one of the river cruise boats motor by: The water was very low and clear (64 degrees), and surprisingly there was only a little wind (most days down there the wind can be brutal). The...

Not sure whether I'm supposed to post this in the Trip Reports forum or this one, but I think the Trip Reports forum is for destination trips overseas or somewhere exotic, whereas to me BC fishing is just part of the PNW, so I'll post this in our Lakes forum. I'm sure if you've been there...