A buddy and I drove up to Sultan, tied the float tubes to the packs, and hiked the 2-3 mile hike to the Greider Lakes Sunday. After a steep quick hike early in the morning we were greeted with a beautiful day with only one other fisherman and a few campers between the two lakes. While my buddy was still climbing I started on the smaller Greider Lake which is very shallow. I saw some good-sized 'bows from the hiking path and rushed to get my gear together. From the bank I fooled a fat 13" bow to take my #14 humpy. A beautiful fight and a nice picture followed. I saw quite a few fish in this lake, but only fished it for 30 minutes or so. Most of our day was spent in the tubes on the upper Greider. It is about the same size as Rattlesnake but is very deep. I don't have a full sink line so I think I just was too shallow trying the wet flies. I would rather fish the dry anyway. So after a short nap on shore (near the den of some small rodent who barked at me the entire time), I tried the BWO and Humpy near the shore and my buddy and I wound up bringing in 16 fish between the two of us. The biggest 14", the smallest 10". Beautiful fish, and they fought impressively including a couple of arial manuevers by the bigger ones. Besides the fish rising to our flies, we did not see much action on the surface at all. But there was plenty of underwater cover for fish--rocks, stumps, etc. and when we tossed the fly to what looked to be a nice cool hole hideout for a trout we had great success getting them to rise to our flies. I would consider going back sometime to camp, but the flies near the water on shore were unbearable blood suckers. A great choice for a day trip though. Brian ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
