High country lakes of ONP

Brookie eradication program. No limit on Brookies!! You must work for them though.

This lake is 7 miles from trailhead and 3000' of elevation gain.

Nice snow banks here and there for natural refridgerator

images from the top secret hole

bear tracks

bear tracks along the river last night

cutts & bows

cutts and rainbows to 17" last night all on the oct. caddis.  what a great time of the year to fish.

oct caddis shucks

halibut

annual halibut trip with old Alaska pals and father in law.  We scored on more than one occasion. lower Cook Inlet  

Finally

The season started first weekend in June.

Lots of rivers are running high and cold as well as silty. A short warm weekend has snow melting in the higher elevations. The Columbia River is in low level flood stage. I was able to fish a stream that is flowing at twice its normal cfs rating for this time of year. 815 CFS in June when it should be just over 400 cfs.Tough wading and was just too swift to cross. I had to be content to fish the edges.

The river was running clear and the return of cool weather (49 degrees) hasn't really jump started any significant bug activity.

No green drakes,very few caddis,no yellow sallies. I picked up a few cutts on a stonefly nymph.

It wasn't pretty, chuckin a bead head stone with a couple of splits,but it got the job done!

It sure feels good to be back fishing after such a long break.