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I started out for Nunnally Saturday morning at 3:15 am from my home in south Everett. Shortly past North Bend I realized that this was going to be a longer day than I had anticipated. Snow was falling, and soon the freeway was white. You could only see about two car lengths ahead of you. I looked back and remembered that I took out my chains a few weeks ago. As I neared the pass, the snow was coming down like crazy, and I was down to 25 mph, occasionally sliding around.
Finally made it over the hump in one piece, and arrived at Nunnally, greeted by white caps and high winds. Myself and a dozen or so other fellow fly flickers spent the morning trying to remember what it felt like to have a fish on the end of your line as we bobbed around Merry (Nunnally was unfishable). After four hours and three bumps I'd had enough.
I drove back over the pass (bare and dry mid-day, wouldn't you know), and made it to Pass Lake in record time. By 3:00 pm I was trolling down to the North end, and spent the rest of the afternoon/evening chasing down trout in the shallows. I caught a nice 20" brownie up in the bushes on a Kaufman's filoplume mayfly nymph, and a decent rainbow that dove under a submerged log in front of the house. I spent ten minutes with my rod under water, and finally coaxed the 17" buck out and into my net.
A nice 'mid hatch was coming off about 7:30, but by then, I called it quits, having to drive another hour and a half home. A lot of work for three fish, but sometimes it just works out that way. I used to think of success in numbers, but that brownie made my day.
Aaron J
Finally made it over the hump in one piece, and arrived at Nunnally, greeted by white caps and high winds. Myself and a dozen or so other fellow fly flickers spent the morning trying to remember what it felt like to have a fish on the end of your line as we bobbed around Merry (Nunnally was unfishable). After four hours and three bumps I'd had enough.
I drove back over the pass (bare and dry mid-day, wouldn't you know), and made it to Pass Lake in record time. By 3:00 pm I was trolling down to the North end, and spent the rest of the afternoon/evening chasing down trout in the shallows. I caught a nice 20" brownie up in the bushes on a Kaufman's filoplume mayfly nymph, and a decent rainbow that dove under a submerged log in front of the house. I spent ten minutes with my rod under water, and finally coaxed the 17" buck out and into my net.
A nice 'mid hatch was coming off about 7:30, but by then, I called it quits, having to drive another hour and a half home. A lot of work for three fish, but sometimes it just works out that way. I used to think of success in numbers, but that brownie made my day.
Aaron J
