Lack of Fishing

I haven’t posted in a while but I have made a few fishing trips this fall. From chasing steelhead in late September on the Grande Ronde to trout on the Yakima. Most of my fishing consisted of local jaunts to the Snoqualmie when the opportunity presented itself. Although, fall is my favorite time of the year to fish I was unable to get out as much as I’d like because of long days at work and sleepless nights on call. Standing on the river with a Bluetooth in my ear waiting for a phone call is not my idea of fishing. Lately, I have been practicing with the spey rod and I’m hoping to pop the proverbial cherry this winter on a winter run steelhead.

Tis the season

With the arrival of fall my 3wt has taken a back seat to my spey rod. October caddis shucks strewn along the rocks and king salmon spawning in the Snoqualmie with the smell of rotting fish… Oh how I love the fall! With the days getting shorter this only gives me a 2 hour window of opportunity to fish after work. I have ventured a few times this late summer chasing the elusive steelhead only to be rewarded with a slowly improving spey cast and no chrome… In my experience fishing the Snoqualmie in years past, the arrival of the King Salmon is a marking point for improving steelhead fishing. Yesterday the Seattle area received a decent amount of rain I did get out and fish with no luck. I’ll keep at it.

Chi Chi Chia!

Eastside Hitchhiker. Found these growing in my boot after an eastern WA excursion. Chia wading boot coming to a fly shop near you.

Hopper Muncher

Green Butt Skunk

Happy Birthday Buddy!

It was my sons Birthday today which meant a fun filled weekend. Yesterday we held his party at the Lego store in Bellevue which turned out to be a blast! Screaming kids running everywhere hopped up on Cinnabon with the Lego store all to themselves. Even the adults got to partake in the Lego festivities. After assembling Lego sets and eating junk food for 2 days straight today we relaxed and after the laziness wore off we decided to go fishing. After fishing it was time for more cake. Good times!

Viva Espana!

Fly Fishing has always been a passion of mine but growing up soccer was number one. I was always traveling playing for various select soccer teams and fishing and hunting came in secondary. Today was an awesome day as Spain ended their 44 year wait as they defeated Germany to win the Euro Cup. Ole, Ole, Ole ,Ole

Perfect Cedar Bow

And the winner is... ME!

A couple-three weeks ago I stopped into my local fly shop Creekside Angling Company to celebrate their 14th Anniversary. Good times were shared by all including a BBQ and sweet sale. I entered a raffle and was surprised when my name was drawn for a new Scientific Anglers Sharkskin line. A $100.00 fly line for free…. Yeah!

Sunday Brookies

Rivers are still blown but at least there are some players unaffected by the run off. I snuck out this evening to catch a bunch of brookies willing to put a bend in my new Sage TXL 3wt.

Saturday Bass

Bass mastered this guy on a bunny.

Sailing in the Sound

Decided to take a day off from work and go sailing with some buddies out in Puget Sound.

Pine Lake

My boys are off to Montana tomorrow to fish the MO and I’m stuck in run off infested waters and a cell phone connected to my hip stuck on call this week. Livin’ the dream… I haven’t fished in a few weeks and I just couldn’t take it anymore… With boxes piled up from my recent move and the celly ready to ring at any moment “there’s an outage” I told myself ‘F’ it I need some therapy. With the warm temps all S Forks were blown so I opted for lake fishing and loaded the float tube and 5wt in the rig and headed to Pine Lake. Typically the midge hatches there are small so I have a pattern that usually does the trick and indeed it did. Right out of the stretch the first dock I laid the fish pimp in front of it went for a swim. Cookie cutter bow just what I needed! 1 hour turned into 2 hours and the submerging of the fish pimp continued without a call from work. It was good to get out.

Filson Waders

Filson has entered the Wader Game

New Casa

Wishing I was fishing… After weeks of stress, a blown transmission and a year of waiting my place is finally built. Taking a few weeks away from fishing was well worth it.

Stones

Tied these bugs up this past weekend while I was stuck at home on call. Hoping to use them on the Yak this weekend.

Fly Tying Legos

Ever wonder what your kids legos are doing at night? Well, if you tie flys they might be doing this...

Skwala Monday On The Yak

Bring the Skwala's, BWO's and March Brown's...

White People

Dude, I'm off the clock check the Northface Denali!

Desert Lake Report

• Date: Saturday March 8, 2008
• Where: Lenice
• Temps: Upper 50’s water temps 50
• Patterns: Various Chronomids, Buggers etc.

Fished Lenice and what a beautiful day. Intermittent gusts throughout the day but we weren’t blown off the lake just added some movement to the chronomids. Tried various streamers chrono’s etc. but couldn’t get the fish dialed in. Also varied the depths but the fish weren’t keen on one specific pattern. Between Allen and I a total of 8 fish with Allen catching a gagger! Biggest Tiger Trout I’ve ever seen taping out over 22” and a fat bastard at that! When he stuck this fish all I saw was a brownish/golden plank crashing the surface as it stripped line off his reel. At first I thought it was a brown but it wasn’t… Too bad for Allen we didn’t have a camera. This fish was glamour shot worthy… Damn son! Anyway, highlight of my day was my first Tiger trout. Didn’t see any callibaetis or damsel hatches just sporadic midge hatches. Another week or 2 it’s on!