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It is always fun to re-visit this small, general regulation BC lake in the Thompson-Nicola area that I've enjoyed over the years. It is fairly well-known by the BC fishermen, but relatively unknown by the US fly casters. There are no resorts or homes around this lake. The rough road in keeps...

Well done! Exploring pays off!

Nice report, in spite of missing the adaptor! Love those hike-in lakes!

The WA Discover Pass is the only pass required/accepted at this lake, as it is within a WA state park. Your WDFW Vehicle Access Pass will not suffice on its own at this lake.

Oops, I got mixed up. I guess it was @Paul, not you, catching all those spiny rays. Chalk it up to getting old...

That's another thing, tying the tiny flies on thin tippets is too hard for my old eyes these days. And for my style of fishing, I'm usually using 2X 12 pound test RIO Fluoroflex Plus tippet material so I don't break off; if I used 2 pound test, I'd be breaking off every fish. These days, the...

Hi, Steve! Thanks! I'm not as talented as you in fishing dries or emergers, and I wasn't even carrying my dry fly box on this outing, so I didn't even try. I was having plenty of action casting and stripping the leech pattern, and I like the tug over seeing the fish take a dry/emerger or...

Hiked into another small seep lake yesterday (you might recognize the lake from this photo if you've fished it). I haven't fished this lake in 10 years, so it was nice to give it another try. I was the only one fishing this lake all day (which is good if you like solitude, like I do). In 4...

Thanks for the good report! Nice that the ice was all gone! I also fished that same lake yesterday, but I arrived a few hours after you and stayed later, so we didn't cross paths. My Humminbird Fishin' Buddy 120 was reading 46 to 48 degrees, so warmer than what you were reading; I'll have to...

I forgot to mention that @Buzzy also caught a brown, so he caught rainbows, a brown and a Tiger in the same day. Last year he also caught a yellow perch, so there are at least 4 species of fish in that lake.

@Buzzy posted his photo in another thread, but I'll re-post it here as it goes along with this thread. Here's a photo of the large Tiger trout he landed and released: Here is the jig leech fly pattern @Buzzy used to catch that Tiger:

I don't tie those Muskrat Nymphs myself. I buy them online at either Sierra Trading Post (not in stock usually) or https://bigyflyco.com/products/muskrat. I use #10 and #12 sizes. They are cheap enough ($0.89 each) that it isn’t worth tying them up myself.

Was wondering if I'd have to break ice on a small, central WA seep lake, but even though it was still half covered with ice 10 days ago, on this outing yesterday it was totally ice-free. In fact, the water temperature was surprisingly warm at 47 to 49 degrees. The water was murky with about 18...

I know those broodstock cutts at the lake you often fish, but these ones are fresh 11 to 12 inchers that were planted in November. Yeah, there probably isn't much natural food for the fish in the winter, but I think these cutts were planted in an emaciated state.

I wonder if there's been a fish food shortage at the hatchery for the cutts? Doesn't seem like all the cutts would be so thin otherwise. In a natural environment, some of the fish are thin and others not so thin, just due to the availability of food and the competition for that food.

Well, after two weeks of not fishing, I decided to get out yesterday (2/20/2025) to that same lake where I had to break ice to fish (no ice at all this time), and was rewarded for the effort by hooking this fat 21 incher on my 6th cast of the day: Also landed 16 other smaller fish in the 11...

Was surprised to find all this ice on a western WA lake yesterday; almost all the visible water in this photo is fresh, clear ice, except for some open water on the far left and at the far end of the lake. Some of the ice was one inch thick. Fortunately for me, this boater broke the ice for me...

No one has mentioned the San Juan River fishery in northern NM, which isn't stillwater, but might be worth checking out. I used a guide named Andy Kim when I fished down there (he has some videos on YouTube that you can check out). You don't need a boat or a guide to fish the San Juan River...

Sure do, especially when I see all the graffiti spray painted on the outhouses, or garbage dumped, or lots of stuff shot up full of bullet holes, but not like on the Green or Cedar River, where there are also lots of homeless encampments. Risks are a lot higher in the urban or suburban areas...

@Buzzy and I hiked into a small central WA lake this past Tuesday to see what we could find. This past spring I had fished the lake and only landed a 13 inch Tiger and an 18 inch rainbow. This time we each only landed 5 fish, but 3 of the fish I landed were nice ones, including this husky...