I've been spending most of my time looking for a new boat now that I have - it's time to use it. The two months I spent trying to get the deal I wanted was during the worst string of crap for weather I've ever seen. Obo, my dog, has so happy to finally go fishing her tail never stopped wagging. The best thing about the day was the sunshine it was fantastic! Obo is trained to bark when a fish splashes. Sometimes this can cause unwanted attention
but mostly it just adds to the excitement. Fish were mostly still inactivebut there was insect hatches in some of the shallow areas. I matched the hatch with a little white nymph that I thought looked perfect. The fish did not agree. So I put down the fly rod and trolled slowly with a number of different flies and lures and got one little peck in two hours. I always bring some bait just in case nothing else works. Not that bait always works but a garden worm gets the job done most of the time. So I kicked back and
soaked up the rays while I floated worms just off the bottom on a flat where I graphed fish. Bark, bark, bark a seven pound brood stock cutthroat. I ended up keeping it because I had to totally play it out to boat it on four pound line. The funny thing is that catchable trout stats never said there was a recent planting and I doubt it could have been from the fall with as much pressure as this lake gets. After weighing it on a my scale I just calibrated that morning I gave him away at the ramp to some bank anglers that were amazed by the big beat up brute. That was the only
barking Obo got a chance to do this warm winter day, but not a bad first fish for my new boat. P.S. A day without fishing is like a day without sunshine. When you get both life in Washington is good woof woof.

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