Crescent Lake 4-14-05

As Last week John Werwie hooked up for a little brown trout junket to Crescent Lake. John arrived early Mon. evening. I had got there about 2 hours earlier so I popped the boat in for a few laps. Nothing big but 3 browns to 2 lb. before dark.

Our best day of the 4 day trip was Thurs. when Steve Kelly joined us for the day. There was an approaching front and that may have spurred the bite because we couldn't keep them off for most of the morning. Mostly dinks but Steve caught and released a nice hookjaw around 5 lb. and we had maybe 4 over 3 lb. By the time we headed in for lunch at KJ's Cafe, we had caught and released 15 browns.

After lunch things slowed to a more normal pace and we caught 6 more browns before dark. The last fish of the day was a nice fat 5.5 lb. hen that Kelly hooked on the old trusty Lyman plug with the rod in the holder. Pretty good day with 21 browns hooked and released with 5 over 3 and 2 over 5. The 4 1/2 day trip netted us just over 50 browns and that was with the bite declining noticeably Fri. and Sat. morning.

One of the highlights of the trip was running into my buddy Chuck Jones from Roseburg. This legendary trophy brown trout angler has amassed 23 browns OVER 10 lb. in 20 something years of chasing them. Unfortunately, that Sat. morning had only produced 2 dink browns for both our boats.

My camera is still being repaired so I hope to have photos up soon when John gets his to me. I will be out tomorrow on a pre-fishing trip to Billy Chinook for a promo trip that is coming up on Sun. with a houseboat magazine crew. They will be featuring Cove Palisades Marina in an upcoming article. I will post more about it after the trip. I have several guide trips coming up the end of April so look for more reports soon.

Screamin' Drags, Rick