Putmbac : August 2015

Monday, August 10, 2015

Beth and the Beavers

Gary and I haven't fished this lake at all in the past year. I did come up and fish Big Beaver last year and did a camp out with my buddy Glen L. It started raining so hard that it putout our camp fire and Glean had no rain gear, We heard later that day that it rained over a inch that mourning.

. Beth is just one of a chain of lakes in north Okanogan County, She sets in a valley at a elevation of 2780 ft and is and is about 25 acres, the water say pretty cool, and supports a pretty good stock of 10-14 inch Bows and if your lucky you may pick up a Cutthroat, There is a few big fish in the lake but far between.

Gary got into a couple of them with him landing one that was close to 4 lbs. and he happen to lose a heavy fish that we never did get to see. It sure bent his rod and took some line untill it got into the weeds and broke itself free.

We only work a small section of the lake due to the winds constant change of direction. At times the wind would blow up and turn the lake in to white caps then die back down. I have been on the lake before when the wind blew so hard that I had to put my Pontoon to shore down lake and walk back to get my truck.

We fished till 2 so we got in close to 4 hours of we both put to net 9-10 fish anywhere from my smallest of less then finger size to my best being a 16 in long skinny Cutty. Gary doing about the same tho I know he out fished me again today He did catch the biggest and the heaviest and probably a few more He was ripping lips with his ZugBug.

Every once in awhile when the wind would die down there were some rises in the shallows probably going after the adult Damsels.

I'm thing of going back sometime next month and do a camp out and spend one day fishin Beth and another fishin Big Beaver, There is also a good trail to hike on the south side of Beth that is just under 2,5 mile Maybe I'll take the mountain bike walk the trail then ride it.

The man who coined the phrase

"Money can't buy happiness", never bought himself a good fly rod!

Saturday, August 8, 2015

Family Lines

I had the pleasure to take Jon Hagedorn from FamilyLines out of Leavenworth, WA and his group of eight Fathers & Sons fresh out of the classroom.

Jon called me a few weeks back to see if I was still guiding and. wanted to book a trip. He was a bit bummed when I told him that I wasn't guiding anymore as I have taken him and another group out in the past.
He started tell me about his latest Fathers and sons. The excitement in his voice was all it took for me to ask. " When do you want to do this?
In the next few weeks if possible.
I told him to give me a day or two and I'll make it happen.

They have spent the last few weeks learning about Fly fishing, each building a fly rod, how to set it up, with line, some knots, learning to tye some flies, and casting. Classroom time is all good. But what make it great is getting out and having the guides experience to put them into the fish,

So today we hooked up. We met at the North Forty Outfitters I gave Jon a short list of flies for them to pick up and also told them to grab some chapstick ???? .

The four sons were 10 &11 years old great age to start fly fishing. After getting the much needed supplies I had them follow me out of town to one of my favorite places to take kids to get fish. The north section Salmon Creek.

Jon and I got them all rigged up and with in minutes of being on the creek you could hear the hoots and hollers and the joy of young boys and men catching their first fish on a fly.

I spent the morning with them and everybody was hooking and landing fish. a few back cast weeds and lost flies.
For more info about Familyline go to their web page Donate and support this group Ido and love the results of keep the kids off the couch and off the games Enjoying the great outdoors.

Jon I thank you for once again inviting me to help you out. I had the best time,

Family Lines on Salmon Creek WA 98826