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Was just reviewing my hiking plans between now and Sept and I don't think I'll be back to this area until early next summer. Too many lakes, too little time to fish...

You've prob been here a time or two Cliff. The earliest reference that I can find to this lake is the1940 Ben Paris Fishing Guide which says, "Very brushy and cannot be fished from shore. 2 or 3 rafts. Eastern brook fishing good after June 15 to July 31." The snow usually comes off the...

Each June I walk into a brook trout lake which Enos Bradner wrote about 75 years ago in Northwest Angling. It was a forbidding day when we arrived with a few snowbanks along the lake and a cold rain and breeze. Fishing was a little slower than normal but picked up as the morning went on when...

Great to see you fishing again Tom. It's not summer at PNW Fly Fishing without some @Tom Butler stream posts. Fishing is a great way to bring quiet and reflection back to your life after all you've been through lately.

Took my 8'3" Sharpes Wilson International staggered ferrule bamboo rod to a Cascade foothills pond today. Plenty of native cutts on a size 12 coachman and a size 12 leadwing coachman and intermediate line. The forest is still lush and green. Time to switch my attention to alpine lakes...

Timing of the travelling sedge hatch can vary with lake elevation. The sedge hatch at BC's Knouff lake (elevation 3,770) used to peak about the third week of June. Have found sedges at the BC's Meadow lakes and Thuya Lakes (4,000-5,000 elevation) during July. It's not unusual to see some...

Slow retreive to create a wake. Size 8-10 fly. Olive dubbing. Two elkhair wings. Brown hackle.

The browns in this particular alpine lake are naturally reproducing descendants of some original stocking which was done years ago. I caught several different age classes so they must be thriving. WDFW stocked browns in Rock Lake in the Alpine Lakes wilderness to try to keep the overabundant...

Took my Sharpes 88 6 weight bamboo rod to a windy kittitas county high lake. Summit Chief and Chimney rock are still snow clad. Managed a grand slam fishing size 10-12 olive, black or self-bodied carey specials on a full sinking or intermediate line. Many browns... Many rainbows... A...

I had a good friend who fished Japan and wrote the experience up at Wading List. https://www.thewadinglist.com/trout-in-japan/

Had a cougar run across the road in front of my car on the middle fork snoqualmie road on a Saturday afternoon when lots of people were around.

Good food indeed. Roper's curry will convince you that there is a God in Heaven. Was amazed by all the birds we saw as well. Wild turkeys, red winged blackbirds, Swanson's thrush, hummingbirds, and a couple eagles...

Roper graciously invited ParaAdams and I to Glenn Raven ranch for a couple days of fishing. Who is this masked man? We caught hard fighting, well conditioned rainbows the first day on a lake which is a stones throw from the canadian border. The were capable of straightening a fine wire...

At least you got to the lake. I cliffed out after a 5 mile hike last week and never wet a line.

I've seen that Jenkins a time or two when we've been fishing...A sweet rod.

Have a fondness for the page boys of the hills. Some of the brookies I encountered in alpine lakes last summer came from beautiful places...

Spent some time with friends today casting 8' 4 and 5 weights. There's much to be said for casting a single length rod to appreciate the nuances of different tapers. Here are the rankings of the various rods we cast 8' Payne 201 taper built by Doug Moore. The #1 choice by most of us. Very...

I always use a dropper or two when I fish chironomids so I can try two or three different flies. Usually put a black bead head chironomid on the tail and an unweighted quill bodied chironomid or olive bodied chironomid on the dropper so they fish a little higher in the water column. 9' flouro...

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