Ross Lake

While we were in Washington a few weeks ago, Dad and I had the chance to sneak away for a day of fishing on Ross Lake, a couple of hour drive from Bellingham. We got up early and arrived at the lake around 7:45 am, hiked about a mile down to the edge of the lake, where you pick up a phone and a guy flys across the lake in his boat to pick you up and bring you to the other side where you can rent your boat and head out for the day. The weather was perfect and the scenery was unreal, as the lake is right there surrounded by the Cascade Mountains. We didn't have much luck the first half of the day. After some lunch and a re-evaluation of how we were going about business, we made a few changes and bingo - fish striking, jumping out of the water, and just having a kick in the pants landing 16-20 inch rainbows all afternoon. Within a few hours we had our limit and headed back home. The picture of the trout in the net is one of the 16 inchers I caught and Dad is holding the 20 incher he landed at the end of the day. It was the perfect ending to a perfect day.