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At this lake there is just this graveled parking area and a concrete outhouse (but bring your own toilet paper). The big rocks have been placed to prevent camping or parking outside of the parking area. There are no picnic tables or fire pits. But there are no signs prohibiting camping, and...

Great report and photos! Like how organized you are around the menu!

Great photos and narrative to go along with the photos! I totally agree with what you said about providing feedback to the relevant fisheries biologists. I try to send my fishing reports (especially reports with my Fish Size Distribution Chart) to the fisheries biologist in charge of a lake...

Fished a new lake for me in north central WA on Thursday afternoon/evening and Friday morning. It was mostly calm, but the wind started to pick up mid-day on Friday. The water was nice at around 60 degrees, and the water clarity was really good with about 15 to 18 feet of visibility; lots of...

Merrill Lake in SW WA is known for hex hatches on this side of the mountains.

Tried this western WA general regulation lake again on Thursday 5/23/2024 and although I spent the first 5 hours mostly practicing my fly casting, the perseverance paid off, as in the evening the fish finally started biting and I ended up landing 17 fish, including this 20 incher that weighed...

With all the hot weather in central WA this week, I decided to go higher in altitude to find cooler weather and water. The lake I fished had winter-killed in 2022 - 2023, so I wasn't sure what I'd find, although I knew that the lake had been stocked after the winter-kill with 13 to 14 inchers...

My apologies for arriving late and not being able to be the official photographer and witness to Billy catching this monster fish! This seep lake doesn't give up fish easily, and Billy's outing yesterday tied my best outing to this lake, and his monster fish is the largest fish I've yet seen...

Great report and photos! Very cool getting that rainbow shot in that canyon!

Since I'm finding empty stomachs on both sides of the mountains, I guess they compare similarly.

I've been posting about the husky rainbows in central WA, but western WA also has some husky rainbows. Check out this husky rainbow hooked today on a western WA lake (a general regulation lake): It was 21 inches long (based on my Measure Net) and 5.25 pounds (based on my handheld scale). It...

Tried one of the small, hike-in lakes in central WA on Friday 4/26/2024 and surprisingly had the lake to myself the entire time. The air temperature was perfect in the 63 to 65 degree range and the water temperature was also nice in the 59 to 61 degree range with about 8 to 10 feet of...

Even though this fishery is known for the good winter fishing, I thought I'd give it another try to see if any of those big rainbows were still around. For the longest time I didn't even get a hit. But in a deeper spot I was waiting for my fly and fly line to sink and a fish intercepted the...

One would think so, but why are their stomachs totally empty?

Yes, but no takers.

I went back to this fishery on Sunday 3/17/2024 to see if I could find any fish in locations where there was better substrate for any fish that might be responding to their spawning instinctual urges. I even found this small inlet creek: This small creek is too small for spawning, but it...

This central WA lake has to be one of the most scenic fly fishing venues, especially when the water is calm like this. Since the March 1st opener, the reports I've received for this lake have been mostly dismal, maybe due to the cold water temperatures and lack of any hatches? With the...

I'm no fisheries biologist, but I believe it is the same in WA as well.

Here's what that 23 incher looked like after getting time-out in the smoker (before removing the skin, pin bones and fat line): Very tasty, if I say so myself! The fat content in these fish is amazingly high, which makes them taste really great. I don't know for sure if these big fish are...

Good thinking... I thought the same thing, but could not detect any temperature difference with my fish finder between the deep water and shallow water, both being at 42 degrees. Also, if the fish were seeking warmer water, it seems that all the fish would seek the warmer water, but I am...