Just a note about closers

     I know I know it’s been a long ass time and I have gone fishin more than I have reported, so has Gary  my partner in fishin adventures.  Yes we have drugged RB and Spock a time or two.

Season started here in the beautiful northcentral state of Confusion or Wa. on the 22^nd of April or the fourth Saturday of April. ( Just for you readers outside of here) the 51^st state  I call Confusion.  Our fishing regs are a bit confusing to so many that the state is now rethinking and getting read to totally rewrite them and so the stories are out that are so wrong with what is really happening.

On opening day many of our lake are still inaccessible doto late snow falls, heavy rain and thunder showers and the lack of real working man power (State and County employees) and their excuses  of why thing haven’t been done. Budgets, cut backs, and higher taxes. To damn many Chiefs and not as many workers to do the jobs.

The road to Chopaka is closed and may not get opened until sometime late this month or maybe early next June.  We had a better than fair fall with little to no presip. But they had lesser important projects to do.

The road to Buzzard Lake is impassable,  Limebelt Road impassable to get to The other Blue Lake the Road to Washburn impassable and iff’n you wanted to go from Conconelly to Big Blue in the Sinlahekin Valley you had to come all the way down the hill almost into Omak, take the Riverside cut-off to 97 then head north to North Pine/Fish Lake Road then north again another 6 miles, At least they could of put a sign up saying the road was closed before people drove the 13 miles to find out then turn around and go all the way back into Conconelly  (26 miles round trip or an hour) and then drive another hour and half to get to Big Blue.

Iff’n you were stayin in Tonasket there is no signs telling you the north end of Sinlahekin road is cut off just 1.5 miles from the lake making it another 2 hour drive to get to Big Blue.

The main road from the Methow Valley to the Okanogan Valley Hiway 20 has a major wash out due to a uncleaned covert pipe and blew out more than a quarter mile of road and will take weeks to fix.

With so much snow in the mountains and the north-cross passage  Hiway 20 a last start and some more snow Hiway 20 may-not get opened till last this month.

We didn’t have a Steelhead Season here in the Okanogan or the Methow water sheds due to low returns, But they sure took out $$$$$s for the upper Columbian endorsement stamp so we could.

Rocky ford Creek is a blast to fish in the winter most of the time. This year the weather getting there was a different story we started getting freezing rain in late December, fog  thicker than pea soup and frozen to boot. I did make it there a few time and was support to meet up with a few old friends that live on the Wetside of Confusion. I did catch some fish when I went not many but some.

Many other popular lake still have or are just coming off.Like Beaver, Beth, Lost, Long and some of the other higher lakes that have campgrounds.