This river is about 90% wild and there is a club that hatches some fry from eggs they collect and lets them go in the beautiful spring fed trout streams that feed it. It's a good size and speed of water, anybody from the west would like it right away.
This is not the heavily stocked water on the other side of the lake, I work hard for my fish.
Could not wrap my hand around this fishes tail today...just smashed a rag in gin clear water.
I did not realise it was illegal to take a wild fish out of the water in Washington State. Makes me rethink the whole practice of doing just that. The day I caught those the river was high enough that I wasn't about to step in it. Landing a fish meant dragging it through a flooded tangle of grass and willows.
