Another Short Report

[Phil Lilley]

The weekend is over and summer has begun. For us at least, Memorial Weekend marks the beginning of the busy season which lasts through the middle of August. It's a shift from getting ready to maintaining. It's all good.

The fog here is liked by most, especially the new people. They think it's nice air conditioning, cool in the morning and evenings. I hate it. Evening is my time to get out and fish on the lake and the fog slows me down. Can't see the line . . . it's wet and cold. Anytime it's muggy out, the fog is thick and most of the time it's muggy.

I boated up to Lookout about 7 pm. It took alittle while to get up there. You can run in light fog until you hit a patch of thick stuff and then you have to bring 'er down off plain. If you're too slow, you cruise into the fog bank and invariably there's a boat and you're on top of it. It scares them and it scares you but never is it real close . . . just aggravating. I don't think I'm going too fast but I'm sure it seems that way to others who can only hear you approaching in the thick stuff. A lot of times, I just don't go out.

They are running 2 units worth of water. I threw 1/8th oz jigs against the bluff bank - started with white. Brought 4 rainbows to the boat and all were nice 15+. But I felt I wasn't getting the jig to the bottom well enough. The water was swirling more than I thought it should be plus I couldn't see my line very well due to the fog. But I kept on drifting and working.

Lost the white jig so tied on a sculpin. Caught a few more including the rainbow in the pic. Hard to feel the bite.

I drifted all the way down almost to Short Creek before picking up and heading in. Not a lot of trout but it was nice to get out. The midges were thick over my head tonight . . . good sign of healthy insect hatches.

[Phil Lilley]

The Corp dropped the lake to one unit this morning and the schedule says it will stay at one unit all day.

Nice!

[back2roots]

Have a GREAT day and a Blessed Season!!!!

Bill