We started the day driving to the end of the Sullivan Creek Road at 6828' at the Salmo Mtn Lookout. What a view! Then we worked our way down from there, seeking fish in the main creek and any tributaries we could find. The top fly was the Renegade, which as Rob's posts remind us, is the go-to fly in the mountain streams, although I found quite a few on a smal stimulator also. Nothing on various nymphs as a dropper.
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| Salmo Mountain Lookout |
The first stop on the upper reaches of Sullivan Creek was great, a hop-across stream tumbling from one pool to the next, with fish in nearly every pool. Melinda's face says it all. This was her favorite stream of the day, and she became pretty adept at dabbing the fly in the little pools.
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| Sullivan Creek Cutthroat |
Next tried to find Leona Creek; I had seen a photo of a fish in the creek on the internet, but didn't feel like bushwacking through the brush trying to find it from the end of the road. So on to Gypsy Creek for lunch and fishing just long enough to pull one small cutt out next to the heavily used camping area.
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| Gypsy Creek |
Next stop at Rainy Creek found a tiny stream that might have fish, but not in the couple holes I could reach without a full-fledged scramble through the brush. So we instead fished some more in Sullivan Creek, larger now, where Mel was able to cast and catch some more. Just a little downstream I found a small cutt in an even smaller stream, Stony Creek.
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| Stony Creek |
From here, we left Sullivan Creek behind and made a final stop at Harvey Creek, a nice size stream falling quickly over large boulders with nice pools. We both caught a good number of cutts in the short section we fished, and given time might revisit this stream (and possibly some tribs) later in the week. This was really fun fishing and really pretty water.
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| Mel stalking the trout |
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| Drifting the fly |
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| Fighting the fish |
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| "Releasing" the fish just before the shutter clicked |
We stopped at Ione to get gas, found cell service there and had a quick call to Carlynn, then back to Metaline Falls for an evening of playing catch, then watching movies. Four more streams, and another great day together with Mel.
2 comments:
Great photos and description. You are racking them up. How close are you to 100 now?
I think I'm right about 80 - not quite going to make it on this trip. I can't bring myself to leave a stream where Mel is having such fun catching fish (and me too), and we have other hikes, geocaches, and stuff to do. But I should be able to build a commanding lead over Tom, then maybe we can hike in a couple of places you have talked about around Wenatchee and bury him! I need to take Marci's boys fishing somewhere, too.
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