Did a short end of summer workcation from Sunriver last week. Got the family some pool time, and did a little fishing. On Tuesday, worked east coast hours and then dragged the family out to "Tall Bird Meadow" lake for a couple of hours in the afternoon. Pretty good fishing, picked up a half dozen or so with a couple nice fish. But my daughter had the fish of the day - after hooking up with a damsel nymph a couple minutes into fishing, she snapped it off (we are going to work on knot tying and fighting big fish soon), she hooked another fish a couple of minutes later. It immediately started jumping, and shoot, it was huge. I fish this lake a fair bit, and the really big fish have been missing for me since 2020. But this one had to be in the 24-25" range. It was pretty entertaining watching her fight this huge fish on an Echo Gecko. After about a minute, it did another couple jumps and bent the hook out on the last one. I picked up a 20" bow a couple minutes later - my daughter's fishing was much bigger.
Fish picture (not the 20").
Got up early on Thursday to sneak in a couple hours before work, and decide to try a spot I've fished a couple of times. Only got one grab in 2 hours of fishing, but it was a fat 22.5" brownie.
Got probably 5 hours of fishing in 4 days, but it was fun!
Fish picture (not the 20").
Got up early on Thursday to sneak in a couple hours before work, and decide to try a spot I've fished a couple of times. Only got one grab in 2 hours of fishing, but it was a fat 22.5" brownie.
Got probably 5 hours of fishing in 4 days, but it was fun!
