Homestead Lake
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place really isn't that cool
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Don't worry about it. You don't ever fish the dry side any how.
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Why not. Come summer time that's about all the license plates I see are Washington ones. When somebody from there comes around I go into hiding.
Homestead lake is just about a mud puddle. It's on a creek that dries up in the summer time. It's west of Stratford. If that helps any.
Homestead lake is just about a mud puddle. It's on a creek that dries up in the summer time. It's west of Stratford. If that helps any.
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Park at the cattle guard, stay to the high trail past the first lake, head west - through the sage, find lake. It can be done without a GPS..... Not sure that I would want to leave my vehicle in the "parking" lot - used to be a lot of garbage, discarded appliances & spent casings.
Have fun.
MB
Have fun.
MB
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I think that is where Kevin Burnham took his lastest gallery picture. Beautiful place it is......
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Nice one, Stonefish. That would be the place....
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Scott,
I agree with you. Last time I was there, the place was a garbage dump. Broken glass, litter etc.
It seemed like a likely place to get your car ripped off. Fishing sucked as well due to extremely low water.
Much better place to fish over that way in my opinion.
I agree with you. Last time I was there, the place was a garbage dump. Broken glass, litter etc.
It seemed like a likely place to get your car ripped off. Fishing sucked as well due to extremely low water.
Much better place to fish over that way in my opinion.
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That is too funny Stonefish, but unfortunately true. Scott's directions and description are accurate plus it had a bad winter kill a few+ years ago and I don't know if it has bounced back yet. I fished it with a buddy this time of year a couple years ago and it seemed nearly sterile. Unless you have up-to-date info on the lake, I'd call Darc at the Desert Fly Angler in Ephrata to get the latest scoop: 509-754-4070
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A sad commentary about Homestead is that back in the days when Kaufman's Streamborn was the pre-eminent fly shop in the eastside Seattle area, that's where they'd take their students who'd sign up for their lake fishing classes. 'Class Lake' I believe it used to be called by more than one person who was first introduced to lake fishing there.
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I fished Homestead about 6-7 years ago, it sucked then. It was written up in Flyfisherman magazine and said it had bows and browns. It had carp and a few small smallmouth bass, no trout for us. The water was nasty, it wasn't worth the hike then and I'll never go back. I think it would be better to fish some of the smaller ponds you pass on the way to Homestead, some of them had big carp.
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Homestead is toast !! Has been for years. Better places out there.
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