Saturday, May 26, 2012

DrRobFish, DrTomFish, & DrJohn

Fish of the day!  Way to go DrTomFish!

A nice fight.  Stomach was full of crayfish.

Yes, they are real.

Swinging buggers among the rocks
John Divis took Tom and me fishing on the upper mid-Columbia yesterday as a thank-you.  We were 30 miles above Chief Joseph Dam and 13 below Grand Coulee.  We fished with buggers, eggsucking leeches, prince nymphs, and Tom had this crazy bright pink thing that scared the fish over to my line, which I liked very much, until he took it off and I stopped catching fish =-(.  It was a windy day, but we ended up finding lots of fish with great company and good food, courtesy of Dr. John.  Tom caught the biggest fish, and I think he caught the mostest, but we all did catch fish.  John took us to some great spots, the scenery was incredible, and we did see some native american dwellings, right across the river on the Okanogan County side of the line on the Colville Reservation.  We ate the fish today--delicious!

Thursday, May 24, 2012

No Otter way to fish




The only mammals visible today at the FRC were me and my buddy Tim.  We found five nice rainbows and one brown.  Tim had the day's best at 23".  No sign of our furry friends--thanks Mr. Chase-them-away-guy that Randy hired!  All fish were on a shiny green bugger type fly on a floating line.  They hit hard and fought hard.  I had one VERY big rainbow grab the fly make a quick run away and then turn back and run right at the boat, spit the fly, and be gone.  I know that brother Tom will now be shouting "farmer" as he reads this, but the FRC is, after all , located on a farm so that may be an apt description.  We were there 2.5 hours, five nice fish, lots of hits, wind from three different directions.