I have been told that I’m slackin on my bloggin !!!!!

Gary and Scott 

Yes I have been with so much going on between, work at the apartments, (roofing and windows being replaced) the wife having bac surgery at the end of last month, a dog that now has to have a pill twice a day, and the wife with her meds every 6 hours, Sometimes its just hard to sit back and click out a story or two to let you all know how the fishin been doin

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Yes I have had my rod in my hands and have been on the water a few times.

                                   So I’m going to keep it short!!

A couple of weeks ago I had a little time to go out and play, so I grabbed my Spey rods and got to hit the river. More to get bac into shape then anything else. My Winston is for throwing Scandi line and skaters and the old faithful Redington for  bigger bugs, I’ve owned many Spey rods over the years and all of them have had something about them better then others.

I have a Redington RS4 7136-4 and I’m proud to say it is one of the best all round Spey rods for me.. I can do just about anything with it I want. Chuck the big bugs a long way with ease, heavy MOW tips and light Scandi lines almost as far.

    Enough of that. So anyway I played with the Winston for about 2 hours up river where Gary (MM) and I fish for Steelhead catching a couple of Bass. Just to tune myself up a little and work on the muscles that I don’t use as much as I should. Hoping to catch a Sockeye or two would have been a plus. But didn’t happen. I was able to wade out into the river waste deep in the 3400+ CFS at 78 degrees. Throw Scandi line over 90 feet and get a great swing in no time.

I have thought of going bac up salmon Creek with my stuff already in the truck. BUT by the time I leave work most days the wind has come up or it’s just too damn hot for me to want to go.

        Yesterday the river had dropped off to just under 1400CFS. Gary and I did make it out to fine tune our skills again with our Speys. Hooking up more bass then called for, but it’s fish and a small tug.

        TODAY : it was a Big Blue Lake day out in the Sinlahekin Valley. 9AM hardly any wind, blue skies, already hot at 78.

     I like to fish the middle portion of the lake, but today where we launched the weeds were too thick We tried to get pass them but I had rowed more then 200 yards and was still in them I / we were catching fish in the north end so I headed back there. Gary followed me part way and Scott stayed up in the upper part of the lake. The water temp is still in the low70s and most of the fish were in 25 to 35 feet of water. I will say this all the fish I caught were strong and healthy my biggest Bow was just over 18 inches and I did land a very nice Brown just over 20 most of the Bows were in the 16” range and all of them put up a good fight. I packed it in at around 1PM and Gary and Scott stuck it out in the wind after the wind came up at around noon. Gary let me know that after I left he netted another 6 more fish and two took him into his backing.

There was one camper just pulling out as I was pulling in and I took his spot to launch and Gary and Scott pulled in next to me just before I was ready to launch.

All in all: I’de say it was a good day out at Big Blue the weeds are many, the catchin was good ( a little longer between fish but worth it, Good friends to fish with and it was 90 when I fired up my truck to leave.    

MM playing out one of his many catches of the day