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Sometimes the best made plans still fall apart...
I set up a Saturday trip with Paul Lewis of Fast Action Guide Service, Randy R, and Robbie from the site. The plan was to spend the day fishing Lake Washington for winter cutthroat. The weather had been iffy but as luck would have it, the forecast called for a nice day following a Friday wind storm, and then back to rain on Sunday. Kinda like a day of fishing the eye of the hurricane, so to speak.
Friday evening the wind was howling but come morning it had laid down nicely. We launched my boat out of the Newport Boat Launch and ran to the south end of Mercer Island. A perfect day!
We ran two riggers, a long line, and a planer board. Old Goat Lures, Arctic Fox flies, and a generic wedding ring, tipped the gear with a chunk of worm. We started marking fish pretty quickly in the 10-30 foot range, and in little time at all brought in the first cutt of the morning, a nice 14" chromer 20 feet deep on the rigger. Shortly after that another fish off the long line that came off just shy of the net.
Then... the call. My wife called to inform me that we had lost sections of our backyard fence to the evening wind storm. The fence had to be fixed because we have dogs that come and go into the back yard. So with that news, I apologized to my guests and turned the boat back to the launch.
Thankfully my friend Robbie hung around at my house and gave me some ideas to make the repairs. My son James came over and the rest of the day was spend fixing the fence. Not as much fun as fishing, but hey, the fish will be there another day!
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