Wow, you know you're desperate to fish when you fish in a hurricane! When Cascade water levels drop too low because of the Resort's draw-down, we can't launch our boat without getting water in the rear end (been there done that), so we miss fishing all of July and August. The water had barely risen enough for us to launch and work finally allowed a a few hours free on the weekend. So off we went (against better judgement) on Saturday. 11:30am-1:30pm we fished. Winds were 15-20 the whole time but the temps were moderate at 64 degrees.

We did the trout troll and I got something on that kept the lure down. It never jumped so made me think it was a nice Largemouth that got away. K. had a hit and P. had a quick bite but no connects initially. A short while later I got another good hit and brought a good sized rainbow to the net but the net goblins prevailed and the fish was seen but not boated. (Thou shall not name names because it was just good to see a fish!)

After braving the three foot rollers on the big lake we made our way to the lagoon looking for a quiet eddy to park for lunch. Even that was almost impossible, but we did tie to a tree and heated cans of soup on the barbecue. While P ran the barbecue and K supervised I cast and on the second cast, caught a little bass. I was happy as a clam. It was a fish in hand! P. boated a little bass outside the lagoon and K. helped him take it off....so maybe we better say everyone handled a fish? LOL.

There were four guys on foot with poles who were casting in the lagoon but it looked like the wind was also challenging them. More desperate fisherman..... LOL. We donned our life jackets and began the trek across the open water back to the launch ramp. It definitely felt like Minnesota open water rather than the San Juan Islands.

It might be one of the few times in our fishing history when we fished only two hours, but even that short time was healing.

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