Dry Falls Report

[Big Tuna]

Fished Dry Falls on Saturday. It was pretty windy, making fishing a little more challenging. The fishing was fairly slow, but steady for me. Fished chironomids exclusively. Ended up landing 8 by about 2:45 when I had to leave. Caught a mix of tigers, browns and bows; all were very healthy. I have an idea the WFFers ended up fighting the wind on Friday, as well. I met Irafly and James Mello right before I left. Sounded like Irafly had a great day on Saturday. There were quite a few folks out. The lake never gets too crowded, but the parking was tough.

[toddsbernina]

I was there on friday. Caught no fish but I did find some Tecate floating around from a guy who rolled his canoe. I guess the guy was trying to get his anchor up and fell in. A guy in a toon drug the fisherman to shore and old timer towed his canoe to shore and Speyflies2 and I went around collecting his beer, flyboxes, jerkey, and his rod(sage w/ evolution reel if memory serves me correctly). The water was cold enough that he wouldn't have made it too long with out help. I know I will start wearing a life vest now or maybe just stick to stream fishing.

[Porter]

Wow! Sometimes it's good to have others on the water.

[Curtis King]

:beathead: Yeah, I don't think the guy realized how close he really was to getting hypothermia and visiting DJ's Locker. He was in the water for 10 minutes or so, and it was only 57 degrees. It's pretty tough cutting a wake in a U-Tube with the wind blowing, but I eventually got there. Toddsbernina did a stellar job of search and recovery.

As for Dry Falls Report - Nice bows, but the wind definitely made it a challenge. Knocked off three tanks on chironomids near the N reed bed. WFF'ers rule. Be there next year for more racoon antics......

:thumb:

[Big Tuna]

Beer, Tecate, wind and a canoe...hmmm. One day while fishing Dry Falls, a guy anchored up not far away w/ his two sons. They were fishing out of a john boat and the dad was sitting in a lawn chair. The son in the front, an up and coming Steven Speilberg, was video taping every fish that was caught. The dad landed a fish and leaned backward to release it, tipping over the boat. He and the son in the back went in the water and it was a little tense for a moment until he had grabbed the kid. They were able to get back into the boat and retrieve all their gear. It turned out that the son in front had the video camera going the entire time and got it all on tape. They ended up getting quite a laugh out of it and I'm sure that is a treasured family video.

[Sloan Craven]

Brought in three over the weekend, lost three too. Not a lot of fish but they were all big.

[Scott Salzer]

Fished Thurs., Fri. & Sat. My best hit was Thursday at about 1900. Fished a p. adams to risers. They didn't come off the next two nights. Mixed on Fri. / Sat. Seemed like people had the best success on Chronies.

MB

[hikepat]

Amie and I fished Dry Falls all day Saturday. Neither of us hooked up till I finally started to get some at the magic hour. When I finally started catching it was for 1 and 1/2 hours non-stop till dark. Once Darkness came I got one more and that was it. It was the only part of the day the wind went away and as I was leaving the lake the wind was coming back up. It was very nice having most of the lake to myself Sat evening since I think most had gotten very tired of all the wind and the fish that only came to those sitting and watching those little peices of foam. I tried that type of fishing earlier in the day with my normal lack of attention by the fish.
We both hit the lake for a little over 1 hour on Sunday till we both said forget it and started our drive home. We stopped by the Yak where I caught 1 small rainbow in the hour or two we were there. Not sure if I can even count it as a true catch. My fly was just hanging in the current next to the bank, while I watched Amie try to get her fly back from a stick in the water without getting wet but it was a landed fish. We did not have our wadders with us or any shorts so we were stuck fishing from shore.
It was great seeing many of you again even though we were only around camp a little bit, mostly between 10 PM and what ever time we finally went to bed Sunday morning.
Having a hard time working today, just to dam tired to even write any more right now. Not even sure if the above makes full sense.

[Banzai]

:beer2: ok, cue the heavenly choir, spotlight on...ME!! Yes folks, I finally managed to catch a trout from a lake that could put a run against the drag and a bend in my newly self-built 10' Rainshadow 6 wt. Heck it even managed to drag my oil tanker sized bum against the wind a couple of yards. (Hallelujah chorus inserted here) :eek: 22 inches of Schwarzenegger shouldered Rainbow Trout easily the largest trout (excluding steelhead) ever to net in my life. An absolutely beautiful egg-laden female, it hit a chironimid at about 11 o'clock after a late (about 10 o'clock) start. I was drifting with the wind toward the parking area to pull out and return to camp to break down my buddy Mike's trailer for the trip home. WOW! It had me giggling like an idiot all the way home. What a way to wrap up a terrific outing after greeting friends met previously; on line and at shows/events. To James Mello, Sloan Craven, and all the others that laid on the spread of eats; a heartfelt and well fed thank you!! Dudettes and Dudes, you rock. To the Wffers I got to meet and put a face to your posts, it is a distinct pleasure to have made your aquaintance. Cheers!

[James Mello]

So my two cents :)

Friday night. Freezing rain, snow, sleet, and any other bad weather you can imagine. 30 foot lake waves, and a huge 90' tall Aqua Man pissing in the lake from the edge of the Coulee. For me I took 45 fish to hand, all of them 5lbs or larger, and all of them very blue colored. (Man, that acid Hedburner brought was the shizzle!)

Hit the trifeca on DF on Saturday, one bow, one brown, and one tiger to hand. All in all, 5 fish for that day, far better than I've ever done there. A shout out to my man Ira. Got me set up with some sweet chronie action (first ever "bobber" fishing ;) )

Saturday night, verbal altercation.

Sunday, the lake took sweet revenge on me. I had 2 hookups, and 2 break offs. I've *never* had my knots fail on me before, but evidently, I was slacking when tying them. Both fish hit using a 24' leader. Unfortunately took all of my chronos that worked to :(.

Sunday evening, hit RF with Freestone... First fish, 3 inches :( Second fish much bigger (2.5lbs according to Freestone). First fish ever for me on a scud :) Got some vicious takes on ridiculous sized steelhead flies, but none to hand.

Monday morning 2am... finally hit Tacoma and went to bed.

-- Cheers
-- James

[Zen Piscator]

(Man, that acid Hedburner brought was the shizzle!)


WURRRRDDD

[hedburner]

Was that the purple micro dot, or the orange barrel. That stuff was okay, but nothing like the windowpane that was around back in '76'.

[Roper]

Ya shoulda had some Sunshine from '68...:eek:

[Matt Smith]

Dude all I can say is that Dry Falls 1 Passman 0. Oh yeah Rockyford 10 Passman about five feet under. I should still be stuck out there. All in all great weekend even though I was skunked. James thanks for the grub!!! It was killer.

Matt

Beware of old A** Holes in Scadden Toons

[Rick Phelps]

Dude all I can say is that Dry Falls 1 Passman 0. Oh yeah Rockyford 10 Passman about five feet under. I should still be stuck out there. All in all great weekend even though I was skunked. James thanks for the grub!!! It was killer.

Matt

Beware of old A** Holes in Scadden Toons


:beathead: A** holes are not only in Scadden Toons!!!!bawling: bawling:

[Matt Smith]

:beathead: A** holes are not only in Scadden Toons!!!!bawling: bawling:

Yes but the one at Dry Falls was. I wasn't trying to say that all people in Scadden Toons were ass holes but I guess my string of logic did tend to say that.

[Rick Phelps]

Yes but the one at Dry Falls was. I wasn't trying to say that all people in Scadden Toons were ass holes but I guess my string of logic did tend to say that.

Let me make this a little clearer for you I was the old A** hole you referred to.

You know there are two different views regarding this story! I am a real nice guy until I get f_ _ _ with. I pulled my oars up and I tried to be courteous and use my fins to get by so as not to disturb anyone. You guys had to block the way into the main channel and to be honest with you lets say I did not get turned around and I came in from the other side then I would have disturbed the guy on the other side of you guys as well. No winning in this situation, because you guys had everything block and I was not about to go way around it was getting too late. I felt like I was backed into a corner with all of your remarks and I came out being as unreasonable as you guys were.

I do apologize for my language and how I reacted in the confrontation, I can usually rationalize situations better than I did with this, I had been drinking allot and it clouded my judgment. So for my part in this I apologize.

[Big Tuna]

Maybe it's just me, but I had to laugh outloud at this exchange.:rofl: Sounds like you guys need to go fishing together.

[Flyfishsteel]

I've heard of road rage, but not "the serenity of flyfishing rage" ... Whatever happened to the quiet sport?

:confused:

I guess be courteous at ALL times and be aware of your surroundings.

Not anything against drinkers, but I don't get why gentlemen drink while flyfishing? Doesn't flyfishing alone relax a person?:confused:

[Dan Soltau]

holy shit, that is the funniest thing i have read in a while:cool: :rofl: :cool: :rofl:

[Old Man]

What ever happened to that old adage "get the f---out of the way you a$$holes". You don't have to be nice, just loud.

Jim

[Islander]

Well I will try and hijack this post back to fishing. What a great weekend. Thanks to James and Sloan for the great grub and to Ira for some super chroni info. I promise I'll try them at Lone next week. Backyard got me hooked on the night fishing thing last year so I pretty much just did that. Fri. hit the water around 7:30 and had two 20" rainbows before the "floatila" came into the cove with banging oars, screams and headlamps. So I called it a night. Sat. night had a few :beer1: and still managed to find my tent. Hey Micro Brew, I still have one bottle left. Do you think it will last one more year? Tried in the morning for a while but only had one take. Sun. night I literally had the lake to myself. Picked up two more 20" fish and one "pig" that went 23" and was fat. Had one break me off, 6lb. floro tipit. On Monday Cabazon showed up and I talked him into hitting the lake that evening with promises of big fish. We saw a bunch of fish rising but I didn't know what they were eating. We both picked up a couple of nice rainbows, (I think he might have some pictures if they turn out). One of them went airborn twice. After dark I had another one break me off again so I took off the tipit and tied my biggest ugly bug right to my 12lb test salmon leader. Another hog slammed it and the fight was on. I finally had him on top of my net but couldn't get him to fit in it. He flipped a couple of times came unhooked and was gone leaving my fly stuck in my net. It was a wild ending to a super trip. The only bummer was loosing my knife (see other post) but all and all it was a fun time with a bunch of great folks.

[Scott Salzer]

Islander:

How could you possibly have a bottle left? You musta been holdin out on me.....

Hopefully we can hook up before next year, still a lot of fishin to do.

MB

[mike doughty]

Was that the purple micro dot, or the orange barrel. That stuff was okay, but nothing like the windowpane that was around back in '76'.
no it wasn't, it was around '86' and windowpane was weak :D peace, pot and micro dot

[James Mello]

Let me make this a little clearer for you I was the old A** hole you referred to.

You know there are two different views regarding this story! I am a real nice guy until I get f_ _ _ with. I pulled my oars up and I tried to be courteous and use my fins to get by so as not to disturb anyone. You guys had to block the way into the main channel and to be honest with you lets say I did not get turned around and I came in from the other side then I would have disturbed the guy on the other side of you guys as well. No winning in this situation, because you guys had everything block and I was not about to go way around it was getting too late. I felt like I was backed into a corner with all of your remarks and I came out being as unreasonable as you guys were.

I do apologize for my language and how I reacted in the confrontation, I can usually rationalize situations better than I did with this, I had been drinking allot and it clouded my judgment. So for my part in this I apologize.

Well, this isn't so hot now :( I thought that on Sunday we had things patched up.... Just for clarification, I was the AHOLE in the green pram (and yes, I do realize I'm an asshole, my wife tells me I am all the time ;) )

To quote a message I sent Kristen:

Yeah, there was an old dude who was really rude to us... We were fishing to a pod of rising fish when a guy came up to go fishing on the lake. He asked which direction to go, and one of the guys in the group pointed around us. The old dude basically said, he wasn't going to fucking paddle around the whole lake to get his spot. We asked him to join, and he refsed and paddled right through the fish that were rising.

We then proceeded to jaw at each other, both of us making complete jackasses out of ourselves. Nothing happened, but I can guarantee that Wendi would not have been proud of me for acting like such an ass

At any rate we saw him on Sunday, and things were cool. I think that we both realized it was just fishing, and that it was better to be good to each other, than to act the way we did



The reality was, I didn't know that you were blocked. If you were, I would have been happy to pick up and move out of the way to let you go by. Neither of the groups were in the right, but at the same time I do feel that we made an honest effort to accomidate you. If you didn't feel that way then I'm sorry. I still stand by the statement that I made that what you did was rude, but now that I got some of your perspective on the whole thing, I do apologize for us not knowing that you didn't have a clear channel to take.

At any rate, can we agree to just let this slide? I hope so, and seriously, if any offense was given to you by me, I do apologize....

-- Cheers
-- James

[Rick Phelps]

Well, this isn't so hot now :( I thought that on Sunday we had things patched up.... Just for clarification, I was the AHOLE in the green pram (and yes, I do realize I'm an asshole, my wife tells me I am all the time ;) )

To quote a message I sent Kristen:


The reality was, I didn't know that you were blocked. If you were, I would have been happy to pick up and move out of the way to let you go by. Neither of the groups were in the right, but at the same time I do feel that we made an honest effort to accomidate you. If you didn't feel that way then I'm sorry. I still stand by the statement that I made that what you did was rude, but now that I got some of your perspective on the whole thing, I do apologize for us not knowing that you didn't have a clear channel to take.

At any rate, can we agree to just let this slide? I hope so, and seriously, if any offense was given to you by me, I do apologize....

-- Cheers
-- James

Thanks:) ! No hard feelings here!
Rick

[sjterry]

Well I will try and hijack this post back to fishing. What a great weekend. Thanks to James and Sloan for the great grub and to Ira for some super chroni info. I promise I'll try them at Lone next week. Backyard got me hooked on the night fishing thing last year so I pretty much just did that. Fri. hit the water around 7:30 and had two 20" rainbows before the "floatila" came into the cove with banging oars, screams and headlamps. So I called it a night. Sat. night had a few :beer1: and still managed to find my tent. Hey Micro Brew, I still have one bottle left. Do you think it will last one more year? Tried in the morning for a while but only had one take. Sun. night I literally had the lake to myself. Picked up two more 20" fish and one "pig" that went 23" and was fat. Had one break me off, 6lb. floro tipit. On Monday Cabazon showed up and I talked him into hitting the lake that evening with promises of big fish. We saw a bunch of fish rising but I didn't know what they were eating. We both picked up a couple of nice rainbows, (I think he might have some pictures if they turn out). One of them went airborn twice. After dark I had another one break me off again so I took off the tipit and tied my biggest ugly bug right to my 12lb test salmon leader. Another hog slammed it and the fight was on. I finally had him on top of my net but couldn't get him to fit in it. He flipped a couple of times came unhooked and was gone leaving my fly stuck in my net. It was a wild ending to a super trip. The only bummer was loosing my knife (see other post) but all and all it was a fun time with a bunch of great folks.


If you don't mind, what were you using at night (fly selections). Thanks and if you don't want to share, no big deal.

[Islander]

If you don't mind, what were you using at night (fly selections). Thanks and if you don't want to share, no big deal.

I'll tell you but it won't do much good unless I send you tying instructions. It's a pattern I designed and use at Pass Lake alot. I call it "Lady in Red" (long story from my earlier days when I drank alot) Basically a 3-4 inch streamer. When it's real dark I go with a cone head or dumbell bunny streamer. Anything that moves a lot of water when you strip it should work. Cabazon was using something different than me on Monday and got fish. PM me if you need more info.

[Islander]

Islander:

How could you possibly have a bottle left? You musta been holdin out on me.....

Hopefully we can hook up before next year, still a lot of fishin to do.

MB

We can have a whiskey drinking.....errr I mean fishing outing at Pass Lake. :D

[cabezon]

Well, I missed the heart of the Dry Falls gathering, but I did get together with Islander on Monday. He, generously, gave me the heads-up on the after-dark action. Here's a pic of him with one of the nice fish that made it into his net.

I had some success with a sculpin pattern that I tied for the sculpin swap; the pattern can be found here: www.washingtonflyfishing.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=12094&cat=18219. On Tuesday night, I had a fish stop the fly dead and break it off instantly. I also caught two nice bows on a Miyawaki popper off a sink-tip line. It would be blast to come back with some bass poppers, especially deer-hair frog patterns, and toss them to the edges.

Steve