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i don’t use a swivel with the twist on bubble, and i have the smoke fireline and i dont this it is that visible. The green line might be good for eastside lakes. Generally, westside lakes have darker bootoms than the eastside.
I am a fan of the twistons. Mostly for ease of use. I dont ge that many tangles. Another thing you can do is fill the bubble with water to make it sink to get the fly down, or you could leave a tiny air bubble in it si it will go down easier. Thats just with the twistons, i dont know if your bubble allows you to do that. Also consider using Fireline as one of your lines, it has no memory, great strength, ties great knots, and if you get the 4lb, it has a 1lb mono diameter.
that sux about your ankle. Its best to wait a little bit for the silvers. There not very thick at all. You probably have a better chance of catching a even year humpy.
I might be goin fishing in the foothills around Sultan this weekend, either that or a lowland lake for some warmwater fishing. So nope, no mountains this weekend. Ive only been able to go up to the mountains 3 times this year. One to Barclay early in the season, on to Heather Lake, and one attempt to North Lake.
I read its only like .5 miles and very little elevation gain. Im sure it get hit hard with fishing. You can still probably catch fish but dont expect to do that good.
Thats a pretty nice fishing report. The only way to get better is more practice. Another thing about high lakes. The best fishing is usually somewhere in the shoals. Shoals being the shallow area just off shore. And the outlet and inlet are more consistent action.
the deal with the creeks are the flatter the section, the better the fishing. There are exceptions to this though. If i remember correctly, the creeks on the way to Lake Dorothy are pretty steep gradient. You generally want to seek out creeks that fall less than 100ft per mile. So with the exsception of a plunge pool somewhere below a small waterfall on the creek, your not gonna find much fishing up near lake dorothy one the creeks. The miller river does have decent trout fishing. The river will be low so youll have to find the pools to get any good fishing. Just fish with some dry flies there. Some flies to use are Elk Hair Caddis, Stimulator, Para Adams, adams, and Royal Wulff. I have a feeling i mentioned those flies to you sometime on WFF.com.
Ya i know what you mean, most people dont like to say exactly where there going and how the fishing was. Seems like there used to be people giving reports but not mnaming the place. Might just be me tho.
Ok, it will be nice to hear a report, the action is a little slow on this site. well anyways, good luck.
One more thing, make sure to get some clear plastic casting bubbles ( the twist on ones) They will allow you to still fish with flies if there is no room for backcast.
Those look like decent flies. Up on the alpine lakes, youll mostly want to go subsurface. the dries have their time, but 95% of the time youll catch your fish on wet flies. The beadhead nymphs in the lower right corner of the top picture should be good. Some must haves for you to get sometime are:
size 12 and 14 Hares ear soft hackle.
size 12 and 14 royal coachmen wet flies
size 12 and 14 zug bugsIm sure if you go to a fly shop with that list they would set you up. Ohh, and make sure to buy more than one of each fly. If you only have one of one kind, it is inevitable that you will lose it when it is the only thing that will work.
Dorothy is the easiet one to get too. Most of the others are off trail. Im assuming this will be your first hiking experience so you may want to stick with an easier hike until you get to know what you can and cannot do. So out of those i would chose Dorothy but i still would reccomend any of the hikes i listed on the WFF site.
