Saturday, June 26, 2004

Tucannon Tango This will be a quick report, as we spent all day fishing again and will be heading out again in the morning and I need sleep! After a rousing breakfast at Rocky's Cafe in Lewiston, amid a horde of Harley riders (There's a Harley rally in town this weekend), we drove west on Highway 12 (the Lewis & Clark Trail, and the overland route they took in the summer of 1806 on their way back to St. Louis), to Pomeroy, then headed up Tatman Mountain Rd. and over the ridge into the Tucannon drainage.  Stopped at The Last Resort for some advice and sandwiches.  Jim MacArthur suggested we try Big Four Lake in the Camp Wooten area upstream from his place. High noon is the wrong time of day to fish a lake for trout, but that's when we got there.  We fished at least two hours and caught one small trout (Jon).  We all had follows and strikes, but caught nothing else.  There were plenty of other anglers on the river there, as it was Saturday, so we headed down the mountain toward Starbuck and fished a stretch Jon, Dale, Pat Henry and I fished in February.  Shelly caught a two-pound squawfish, I caught a two-pound sucker, and we all caught a small rainbow trout or two.  Darcy Linklater, of Darver Tackle in Starbuck,  had told us there were steelhead and a few salmon in the river, but you couldn't prove it by us. On the way back to Lewiston, we stopped in Pomeroy for dinner at the Farmer's Cafe and Watering Hole.  A delightfully rural change from the Little Red Boathouse and Zany's in Lewiston. Pooped, we are, so this is it for tonight.  Tomorrow morning we hit the Grand Ronde for bass or Asotin Creek for trout.  Maybe we'll flip a coin. Later... 11:08:49 PM    comment []

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