Fish, flowers, and features from the Ice Age Floods, some of my favorite "f's" all on a beautiful, calm spring morning. The hike in starts at the head of a flood channel from the Ice Age Floods that scoured pathways across eastern Washington in the not so distant past.
A short and scenic hike leads to a beautiful little lake surrounded by basalt cliffs. The lake is the filled in plunge pool of a waterfall that was present for only a few days every several millenia as the cataclysmic floods overflowed the Quincy basin and dropped into the Columbia River below. My depth finder showed 110 feet deep just off the peninsula.
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| View from the top of the trail |
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| Always good to see no wind on this lake |
Started in the tube, fished some chironomids (Tom's chewy chironomid pattern, snowcone, in black with red wire and red with red wire, both caught fish), some trolling an olive leach. Caught some both ways (eleven straight months having caught a trout.).
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| Fishing with a view |
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| The longest of the day, if only the body size matched the tail size |
Mostly 13" to 16", some colored from spawning, some bright. Chironomids off the inlet peninsula, leech of the east side of the central peninsula, 8 to hand from the tube. After coming ashore, fished from the bank with the double chironomid, 6 and 7.5 ft down from the indicator, got about 18 more, then called it a day in the early afternoon when the wind started picking up. On the hike out, quite a few wildflowers to cap off the day!
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| yellow bells on the middle terrace shepherding the spring whitlow grass (little white flowers) |
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| sagebrush buttercup |
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| bulbiferous prairie star were growing thickly on the middle terrace |
