Putmbac : Long Lake

Ferry County about 12 miles south of Republic

About 13 Acres Elevation 3250 give or take a few feet, Water temp. 65 Cool mourning of 58 @9am and very little wind

Mighty Mouse and I have wanted to go back for a while and had planned to a couple of weeks ago, every day that we planned to go the weather did not make it agreeable, thunder storms and fly rods spook me.

Long Lake is probably one of my favorite lake to fish, there not the biggest fish to catch but their pretty and lots of them.

We virtually had the lake and only one other guy on the water in a row boat trolling around. From shore you could see little dinks going after PMDs. I brought my lite weight Sage flight rod along and another Sage 4 weight along for Mighty Mouse.

MM took the west shore line while I took the east side. To meet up at the other end. Seamed like everytime I looked over MM was into a fish. I had just a few, most of the fish were in the 17-25 ft. of water and I didn’t have my type 7 line with me only my type 4 so he was getting down faster and into the fish sooner.

After meeting up at the south end and hearing that he had netted 20-25 fish and me only 10 or so but 2 were on dry flies, they were both real small of 7-8 inches. I took the west side back up and when I got back to the launch I headed for the truck to get my other rod with the type 7 line.

Now I’m catchin some fish and for a while every cast produced a Cuttie. The fishin was steady all day I did catch a few that were 16 but I’d say that most were in the 12-14 range one of the 16’s was on a day beetle. I don’t know how many fish I caught but I do know it was a bunch and MM I believe he caught more, way to go my friend. Glad that we can do this together.

Our friend Bill O goes to this lake every year on his Birthday, this year Bill turned 93. Way to go Buddy.

There is a USFS camp ground by the lake, thinkin after my wife has her surgery, I or we may take a couple of days and stay.