Quillback

This may have been the story I remember: Truck Kills 11 Elk On I-90 -- Ten Cows, Calf Run Into Tractor- Trailer Rig West Of Cle Elum | The Seattle Times

Washington state is known for rain, but also has quite a bit of high desert in the central part of the state. There was some great chukar hunting. Good trout fishing too, and elk. I remember an accident that happened on I-90 not far from where I lived. Truck ran into a herd of elk that were in the freeway at night, killed something like 10 of them.

Nice looking creek.

Spoke too early about the top water bite, we could not find it today. Cold north wind had them down, saw very little on top except for gar. Speaking of gar, Dutch had an encounter with a 4 footer, dived under the boat, came up on the other side, jumped and broke off. We caught something like 18 bass and a couple of walleye. We had 2 good smallmouth, most of the rest a mix of less than 15" spots and smallies. Dutch did have another keeper sized smallie. 2.8 and 3.3 swimbaits were our best baits, c-rigged craws got us several too. Jigs were slow, I think we only got one or two jig fish. Best bites were on gravel banks and a rocky point. Nothing deep, deepest fish may have been out in 10-15 FOW. Quite a few eagles flying around today. WT 73

Just read my copy of the Weekly Vista and there is an announcement that the Fly Fishing Film Tour 2024 will have a showing in Fayetteville at Theater Squared, 477 W. Spring St., Fayetteville AR. Tickets are $25, starts at 5:30 PM and runs until 10:00 PM, October 17. Probably won't go myself, but thought I would pass it on. Flyfilmtour.com for more info.

Turn the tables on them, when you're fishing your bait caster stuff and some fly fishermen drift by, give them "the look", before they give it to you. 😃

November is a good time to come down.

Wow, that's a huge trout! I would guess those fish have not seen a lot of jerk baits, you could be in for some great fishing.

Yeah, hated to see them get knocked out, but they were competitive with the Yanks, it's not like they got blown out. And Ness you are right, one heckuva season especially considering they lost 106 games last year. I'm hoping they can add a bat or two during the off-season. A shutdown closer would be a nice add too.

Finally found a top water bite today, found it in 2 locations, first one was near a long point with timber, the second was in a little pocket. The fish near the point were over 30-50 FOW and the pocket fish were in 10-15 FOW. They were up on top chasing one inch shad, hard to miss them. Both places they chased for an hour or so, then it died off. Caught them on an Evergreen Shower Blow 100. Mostly spotted bass with a few largemouth. Right before I left, I threw the c-rigged craw across a point by Big M, caught a few on it, including a couple of smallmouth. Had one hard puller that got off. Boated 27 today, with 4 keepers, no outstanding fish size wise, but fun to get on top. They were pretty aggressive today, if they missed it, keep walking that bait and they'd come back for it. Had a couple that knocked the plug 2 feet in the air. I had a couple that spit out 8-10 shad by the boat. Air temp was 85 when I left, love this weather, but looks like a cool-down in the works next week. WT 74

Looks to me like Boby is trying to do too much. Swinging at a lot of pitches out of the strike zone. And the Yankees have a pretty good pitching staff, have to give them credit.

I know several people that have had the surgery and they've all been very happy with the results.

Forgot to add that I got checked by the wardens today at the ramp. First time on Beaver that I have been checked.

I was back today and it wasn't happening. Caught one and only one smallmouth. Briefly hooked a freight train on my wimpy drop shot rod, but it pulled off, I bet it was a striper. However the stripers were not on top today. I can't figure it out, maybe it was the north wind.

Yeah, you hate to hear that.

I'd like to hear how you're doing, FFS or not.

Got the split in NY. I like their chances at the K.

That jig bite was a squirrely one, I take a little pride in being able to detect jig bites, but I bet I had a half dozen at least that I thought were bites, but never reacted to in time. Swung and missed on several and had 4 or 5 throughout the morning that chased the jig back to the boat. Just a funny day, I blame it on the weather. Weather was great, a bit chilly to start but really nice when we left. Did not see a cloud the entire day. We saw several turkeys down by the lake. Thanks for the trip buddy!

Welcome Will! Good to see a young guy joining up, most of us are probably 3 times your age. Ness may be 4 times! Catfish are fun, used to fish for them at night, chicken livers were my go-to bait for them.

I've been wearing bifocals for about 20 years, always have been near sighted, but then needed the bifocal for reading and tying knots. I'm getting cataracts, just a matter of time before I get surgery for that.

Hard to walk away from those 5 lb. browns you've been catching.

I'm all over the place, I'll sometimes go as far up as close to the mouth of the Kings then fish my way back. What few I can catch have been main lake for the most part.

You might want to look at Vancouver Island. You can drive there, 2,000+ miles from here, and you will need to take a ferry to get to the island. Native trout in the streams are all catch and release, so should provide for some good fishing. If you are willing to bushwhack you can get on some pretty remote stuff. I' have fished the saltwater out of Barclay Sound and on the drive there, passed over several streams that looked pretty good. You can search "Vancouver Island trout fishing" for some info.