Beehive Reservoir or should I say (CHELAN COUNTY DUMP) My wife had to work today so I made a quick trip up to Beehive Reservoir to check out this small lake. Me and my dog spent a couple of hours this afternoon trying out different spinners and flies (All Barbless). I caught and released several small planters. I caught a couple on an olive woolly bugger, a couple on a black woolly bugger, one on a single hook black super rooster tail, one on a small single hook silver spoon , and even one on a Trout pellet fly. I counted over a hundred people in and around the lake today. Mostly families with young children which is a very good thing. The bad thing is that this place looks like a city dump. After fishing for a couple of hours I decided I just couldn’t take the mess anymore. I walked back to my truck with plans of grabbing a couple of large lawn & garden trash bags that I keep in the glove box for emergencies. On the way back to my truck my dog gave out a loud yelp to let me know about a large treble hook attached to about 50’ of monofilament buried in her front paw. After extricating my dog from the treble hook and wad of mono (Now completely PO’ed) I made it back to my truck and started picking up trash. I was able to fill both large (40 gal) trash bags within 100' of my pickup. It will be along time before I make it back to Beehive Reservoir unless I do it with a volunteer trash pick up crew.

On a side note: I found out today that you can remove a hook from a dogs paw the same way you remove a hook from a persons hand by using about two feet of heavy braided line.