Had a chance to get our for an hour or so the other day on Crab Creek just
north of Sprague Lake. It was one of those cold winter days where your
fingers go numb and your nose begins to run by the time you get your rod
strung up and makes you question your sanity for being out in that kind of
weather but I had cabin fever bad.
The creek was pretty low but there were several deep pools holding fish. I
landed one nice little wild rainbow in the first pool and was slow on the
pick up on two more. I wandered down to the next slow and deep section and
fish were rising very consistently to midges. It was then that I
experienced something that I had never run across before. No matter how slow
or deliberate I walked, the fish would quit rising about 30 yards downstream
from me. I have to assume that the frozen ground combined with the crunchy
snow put out more sound vibrations then typical. I tried a few casts of
drifting the fly down to the risers but the multiple current streams made
that long of cast with a drag free drift impossible. Too bad too. These
were some nice fish!
Hope to get out to 4th of July lake this weekend if the weather doesn't hit
the extreme temps that are supposed to be coming.
Mike
Spangle, WA
