I've done that mouth of the Stehekin fishery. Good timing is at runnoff.
Lots of organisms are washed into the lake and fish will congregate well
near to, or in the cloudy runoff. Tough run back down lake if you have a
small boat and the wind kicks up, like it usually does. There is a guy up
there, that ran an excursion bus and whatever else I'm not sure, that at one
time was Mr. Yakima, Tim Irish. He had a flyshop in Renton, made a fine
video of the Yakima with Jim & Kelly Watts (the flyshop was the Royal
Coachman). Tim was one of those individuals that enjoyed peace and solitude
with his fly fishing and became very upset at what he thought were crowds
that moved onto the Yakima and gave up a very successful guide service. I
was waded out at "Reds" one evening when Tim floated by with several clients
and one of his clients hooked a brute just above me. I got rather
vociferous and soon found out that Tim didn't enjoy my "blow by blow"
commentary. Jere
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> Well this old gimp made his first fishing trip after knee surgery on 6/30.
> My father in law is in the process of getting a guide service started on
the
> lake so we joined him to help break in his new Bayliner and to explore the
> lake a bit.
>
> The Lakers were hard to come by this weekend. We had one break off first
> thing Sat. morning and then didn't get another bump. My father in law had
> spent a week up there and taken at least one Mack every day up until my
> arrival. Since the kids were with us, we really didn't fish more then a
> couple of hours each day so I am sure that played a large part in our lack
of
> success.
>
> On Sat. we took the kids out and set up the gear for Silvers. We caught 7
> nice 11-12 inch Silvers and one 16 inch rainbow. The Silvers will be
tasty
> after they come out of the smoker so I am looking forward to that.
>
> On Sunday we ran up to Stehekin. I am still in a leg brace so can't hike
or
> creek fish yet. I had to settle for casting around logs and other
driftwood
> at the mouth of the Stehekin River. The hard part was I had just finished
> making a new little Sage LL 3 wt that I was dying to try out. The rod is
a
> dream to cast and I can't wait to use it proper. I couldn't convince
> anything to come up to the Caddis I was casting but we did see several 18
> inch cutts or rainbows swimming beneath us.
>
> That's the trip in a nutshell. The rest of the time was spent towing the
> kids in the Doughnut behind the boat and losing some quarters at Mill Bay
> Casino.
>
> Mike Wilson
> Spangle.
>
>
