A long morning wait.

Last weekend we took H's mom up to Faraday lake, some friends also joined us. When we arrived we were really suprised to see that there was hardly anyone there. We thought that we had gotten lucky and so took a seat near the end of the damn. It was still cool, swallows were fishing for bugs off the waters surface, devouring the mosquitos and midge flies gathering there. I got all of our rods set up, and after some practice casts for H's mom we all had our lines in the water. We sat for quite awhile before our friends showed up, we still hadn't gotten a nibble. It took their arrival, and our buddy R to cast out when ue got a fish on. From there we had very little down time. I caught one shortly after, then H. R and R were bringing in bows too.
Lunch time struck in short order, and with it a swarm of bees that seemed to affect everyone at the lake. We over heard a young woman who loudly proclaimed that she had gotten stung on the rear. The group down the dam from us were keeping us quite entertained in between fish. The squeels when they finally caught a fish had us all laughing. They didnt want to touch it! One girl even squeeled when her worm touched her toe.

All in all, we had a successful trip. As a group we bagged 11, three over 12".

They went into the smoker the next morning as fillets and are tasty, tasty!

Fishing faraday this evening.

When I got off work, H suggested that we go out for the evening bite and while I was hungry for dinner she was thinking of the trout instead. So we headed out towards faraday lake. We hit the tail end of the evening bite which was about 4:45pm. H had two grab on but both managed to bail just before the dam.
I put together a fluff chucker rig and I had a good sized fish following the fly but it just wasnt enough to entice a bite out of him. We packed it in around 6:30pm as the small fry started jumping. Seems to be about the norm for faraday, you know the evening has turned cold when the little guys start having dinner. Overall not a bad night, even though we left with an empty net. The weather was calm and the water was clear enough to see the first bar pretty well.

Faraday Lake, Oregon

Faraday lake, is a small resevoir, stream fed from the clackamas river, downstream from North Fork Resevoir. There are no watercraft or floatation devices allowed. We've been out to Faraday several times this year, and had decent luck each time. Mom and I ended her birthday trip here, after getting rained and mudded out at Henry Hagg lake.
We perched about midway down the dam, one of the better places to fish. (Though there is decent fly fishing up stream from the lake), mom was fishing red power bait with gold sparkles and I was fishing chartreuse. Shortly after the first cast out, I had a strike. My first on the new rod, it was a good strong strike and I landed the hook easily. After letting the fish run and playing a bit I landed a nice 10" rainbow. About 30 minutes later, I pulled in a 13" rainbow and while I was removing the hook from mine, mom got a nice strike and pulled in a nice 12" bow. Dark clouds started moving, and the nibbles and bites died down to nothing as the sun started to go down.  We decided to call it a night as the small fry were jumping for gnats on the surface. Nice to finally hook some fish for the weekend, and get some good play on the new ultra light rod.

After the weekend, I decided to pack both the ultra light and the shakespear synergy medium action 6.0 rod that I have.  The synergy is more trustworthy in moving waters, where as the ultra light reacts easily in calm waters but moves a lot in the moving water.

I might want to add a tip here for fishing from the dam at Faraday, weight is key. Its best to get out past the first sand bar about half way between the first and the second. we use a 1/2 lb drop weight with a 3ft leader line. To get above the grasses. Faraday was closed in 2012 for a revamp, but it hasn't affected the fishing much. Glad to see that its been reopened!