Another weekend has come and gone, and with each passing day the air gets colder as the march of winter comes close. Determined to get a few more days of fishing in before I must hang up my waders for the winter I set out to once again ply the waters of the Walla Walla river and discover what bounties of aquatic delights awaited me.
Arriving at the parking lot to the area I spent a few minuets chatting with some of the locals who had bagged themselves a couple birds. We chatted about our fortune of having such an ideal accessible area so close to where we lived and the fortune it provided through the seasons.
A few minuets later donning my gear I sally forth into the thicket that encompasses the river. I have on previous occasions traveled down stream so today I decided to explore upstream. During the last couple weeks heavy rains, well heavy for this end of the state, caused a rise in the river level and with it caused the bed of the river to be scoured in some places and the substrate to be deposited in others. But as this was relatively new area to me while I could see the effect of the rushing water the holes and lies of the trout were yet to be explored.
I did not find the monster that broke me off when I was last here but my day was not a complete bust. One thing that I enjoy about the trout in these small streams are that they fight like they have something to prove and that no lure is a match for them. It may also be the case that being a smaller stream they need to be more opportunistic in their diet and feed on whatever may come their way.
After catching and releasing a couple my eye was drawn to the frosty leaves along the high water mark. Though clumped together, cottonwood and aspen leaves formed a intricate pattern with the crystals of ice heralding the end of Fall and the near arrival of winter.
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Hi Ruwan,
ReplyDeleteI did a google search on fishing the Tucannon River and found your blog. I hunt the Snake River Country for pheasants every fall and we have fished for steelhead and this year catfish in the river.
You have an interesting blog. Your interests in fly fishing, photography, and alternative energy mirror some of my interests.
I did enjoy your links to the more technical environmental articles. We have a solar house in the Washington Cascades that we run as a vacation home rental.
http://camasmeadows.blogspot.com/
The article on Black Silicon did miss one point. Our house runs strictly on solar from about March through September. After that the sun angle becomes to low and we use our generator as backup.
However, it is also about this time that we start heating with wood. A solar cell that absorbs infra-red and generates electricity would be the perfect compliment to our current set-up. The cells could placed behind the wood stove.
There is a company in western Washington that has been working on infra-red solar cells for several years.
This is their web site.
http://www.jxcrystals.com/ThermoPV.htm
We have owned our solar house for ten years and throughout that time it seems all the alternative energy breakthroughs were just four or five years away. Meanwhile, we still live with a generator and lead-acid batteries.
Nice blog. Keep posting particularly those alternative energy links.
For fly fishing for trout you should get a Fish Cat float tube. The best trout fishing in eastern Washington is in the lakes and it is much more relaxing than fighting the brush along streams.