Went over to Dry Falls Friday night for the outing co-sponsored by
Northwest Fly Anglers and Northwest Women Flyfishers. Found everyone and
ended up parking in the parking in the lot by the meeting building with my
friend Jim Koolick and a few others. Unlike my friend Jim, I didn't park so
close to the sprinklers.
Saturday morning found breakfast ready, and people headed out to the
lake. Yes it was a bit crowded but everyone managed to find themselves a
spot
Fishing in a word was slow, very slow. No one spoke of more than one or
two fish with many breakoffs. I took my friend's double pontoon boat up with
me and he drove over on his motorcycle and joined me around 12. We broke
off by three PM to get to the 4PM potluck, Jomo stayed with the boat and I
went for the grub.
Good potluck, and then it was back to the lake. Jomo left for the trip
back and I fished on till 8PM with one small hit. One gentleman (Scott, I
think) was standing in 2 ft. of water just across from the put-in and landed
5 fish, casting to rising fish with a brown wolley bugger. That was the one
high point of the weekend as I know it. I was not feeling well so I left by
8:30 Sunday morning after a good breakfast ( Thanks to all who helped make
this gathering work out so well)
I stopped by Rocky Ford and took a 2 hr. nap and did not fish, the two
guys I talked to said it was slow there too. Drove right by the Yak, not
even stopping to look.
Was thinking about stopping at Rattlesnake but didn't and then as I
passed North Bend I ran out of gas and Jim Koolick comes by sees the potoon
and stops, YESS! He said he wouldn't have noticed me except the yellow
pontoons were a dead giveaway.
Tight lines my friends,
Charlie
