Had to fish. Been too long, soooo...

Went to 3 lakes in the Evergreen area, and spent a pleasant hour and a half on Burke. Caught about 40 panfish at Evergreen (Main road not open), all kind of small. 6 were crappie. Burke yielded 16 or 17 trout, one big brooder, all tossed back. Okay, placed gently back. All caught on jigs and plastics, mostly Jiggy's, but also a couple of new designs I made, which was fun. I saw 7 other trout caught there.

Then I went on a grand tour of crappie spots (total of 11 lakes/streams) and caught about 50 more, all medium small. Worms, and plastics with jigheads.

At Burke I was able to meet Yakivegas and swap stories for a while. Nice rig, Yak. He was launching as I was leaving.

At one point I was daring and stood out over heavy current on a 6" wide abutment of concrete, just to get a better cast at an eddy which held several crappie. I managed not to fall in, but it was touch and go. The drop into icy water would have been an eye opener to say the least. Did I mention I can't swim? Yes, it would have been at least a foot drop into 4" deep water, with a sandy bottom.

Also caught 6 sculpins, much to the amusement of some Russian speaking fishermen nearby.

Beautiful weather, medium bite, mostly small fish. If the fish were bigger, it would have been a 5. And I finally plugged that slow leak in the pontoon!