Big Green

OLYMPIA - Licensed anglers can now fish without daily catch or size limits on six Eastern Washington lakes scheduled for treatment to remove nuisance fish late next month.

Effective immediately, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) has suspended restrictions on the following lakes

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Upper and Lower Green Lakes and Rat Lake in Okanogan County.

The no-limits fishing opportunity will run through Oct. 18 on the three lakes in Okanogan County, and through Oct. 25 on the other three lake.

Water temp. 59 air temp 64 lite wind from the south slightly overcast. 10:30 am 2pm

I have the whole lake to myself. Not more than 20 ft from the shore / launch I case parallel to the shore my Punkinhead hits the water maybe on a 45 ft cast of intermediate line sinks less than a foot while kicking Bam first bow of the day 16in and fat. Cool it’s going to be a good day.

For the next 30 minutes still with the Punkinhead nothing but Bluegill, from 3in to 5in. no matter if I let it sink to the bottom before I stripped or stripped right away Bluegill.

  I traded out to type 4 sink line bigger fly #8 Wolly Bugger still nothing just Gillys hitting it too big for the take.

Then all of a sudden while I was digging around in my saddlebag full of fly boxes my # 3 rod is almost ripped from my hand,(  I almost set it down almost.) I had maybe 15 ft of line before my backing on the reel, that was gone in a flash, then this big splash out there I see it up and out of the water not once but twice.  A few minutes later it was in my net, 20 in bow. Pumped it’s stomach full of Chromimids.  I stayed with the Bugger until I made my way to the north end. Switch to a # 16 black and red ribbed Chroni and within minutes I was dialed in to the proper depth and was pulling a bow out on at least every other cast. From 9 inchers to the biggest of  19.

Time passed by quickly and before I knew it. It was getting close to time to get home to do the weekly chores.

 I did bag 6 bows to take to my 80 something friend for him to enjoy. Something I don’t do very often keep fish, I know that he will enjoy each and everyone of them. I hope to get back and grab him a few more.

          I don’t know how many fish I caught today more than my share. But I did share.