Big Four

Both Grant and I had the day off on Monday so we headed up to Big Four Lake in the Tucannon drainage. Monday mother nature graced/blessed/cursed the area with a pretty major weather change. .. temps went from the 60's over the weekend to the low 40's on Monday. Actually the 40 degree mark is my best guess; all I know is that with the wind it was cold! Even with waders, underarmour, long sleeve shirt, sweat shirt and jacket I was cold most of the day.

Truth be told the fishing was about as warm as the weather. I managed to catch 3 or 4 smaller stocked trout, but the bigger triploids we saw the previous week were no place to be found. I was fishing a three fly nymph set up that consisted of an oliver wooly bugger, dragonfly nymph, and smaller cronomid pattern. Changed up a few times but that was the general pattern. Grant was switching between a variety of wet flies and a 2nd rod that was rigged up for dry fly fishing. We did see a good number of rising trout but Grant couldn't entice any to bite. Actually if I remember correctly I actually caught more fish that Grant..wow that doesn't happen often!

We slugged through the wind and cold for a couple hours when we decided it might be more productive to head back to Walla Walla to tie some flies and drink warm coffee! Hopefully the fishing will warm-up with the weather.