Originally Posted By: Driftin'
Also, if you're fishing alpine lakes shortly after the ice clears off, you could almost get away with dangling a fuzzy hook 6 inches above the water and still catch fish. They's powerful hungry...



My experience exactly. Up in the Cascades is Spade Lake, about 5200' elevation & remote. And in July you get off the hook fly fishing & really cold swimming even if its 80 & sunny. I used an old 7' Lamiglas fly/spin rod, with a spinning reel & float to a #12 dry of some sort & it was non-stop





Spade Lake in the center, Venus Lake above it & Mt. Daniel looks over them. At about 13 miles from trailhead to lakeshore, the fishing is always good. We camped on the point jutting in on the right side, were front-seat to a dogfight courtesy of the WA ANG & NAS Whidbey, it was F-4 vs A-6.

The A-6 driver was pulling out all the stops, but I think the F-4 nailed him.



c/22