Fly Fishing NE Washington when I got a visitor

[softtail103]

2 year old just walked out of the forest 50 feet away while I was standing in my favorite stream.

 

[26Reload]

How do you know it was 2....
Bears are much like humans....not all get 'big'......some 'ol gals' may only get to 120#....some may get there by their 'sophomore year'.......

 

[DawntoDusk]

I'm more impressed that there are actually fish in that shallow stream.

 

[softtail103]

I'm more impressed that there are actually fish in that shallow stream.

6-12 inch cuts and native red bands. Like any streams just find the deeper spots.

 

[softtail103]

How do you know it was 2....
Bears are much like humans....not all get 'big'......some 'ol gals' may only get to 120#....some may get there by their 'sophomore year'.......

I spend a great deal of time up there. His/Her curiosity gives away the age. I would go so far as to say he was just pushed out by mom. It would be the smallest adult black bear I've seen in the Colville National Forest. This is the difference of being out in the forest and just reading about it.

 

[DawntoDusk]

6-12 inch cuts and native red bands. Like any streams just find the deeper spots.

Nice. Happy fishing.

 

[cherokees]

This shallow little stream is probably the best fly fishing in Washington

 

[softtail103]

This shallow little stream is probably the best fly fishing in Washington

It drains into the Pend Oreille River which then dumps into the Columbia River north of the border. If you want great small stream fish Crab Creek in Grant County. Big bows are common. Don't bring your 3-4wt to that one.
PS. We make a day of it with calling coyotes in the scab rocks.

 

[26Reload]

This is the difference of being out in the forest and just reading about it.

I hope you aren't trying to incenuate anything personal here.....

 

[softtail103]

I hope you aren't trying to incenuate anything personal here.....

I'm not insinuating anything. I'm saying I spend a lot of time is the Colville National Forest. So what I know is from being in the forest with the animals.

 

[Hugnot]

Parts of NE WA are sort of a wilderness haven in a huge populated (Pugetropolis) urban state. Most Seattle & urban WA residents don't have clue how remote & wild parts of NE WA are.

As for Crab Creek in Lincoln County, WA - Hardings Rd & Rt 23, spent many hours there shooting rockchucks - alfalfa & talus slopes. Tiny little rainbow trouts & other small fishes in Crab Creek. Lots of rattle snakes near marshy wet areas.

The channeled scablands around Sprague WA are a result of a series of huge floods caused by failure(s) of a 2000-foot-high ice dam located between Clark Fork ID & Noxon MT, that backed up Lake Missoula, 13,000 to 15,000 years ago. Huge blasts of water gushed down from the ancient Lake Missoula thru N Idaho pan handle then just north of Spokane then to the Sprague WA area then SW to Colombia River. The channeled scablands consist of many pothole like features some 50 to 200 yards wide having basalt rims with steep slopes. Viewing this area from a distance it appears to flat but when crossing on foot the potholes appear & make for a circuitous route. Lots of hidden wildlife like deers & coyotes down in the potholes (basins). Not good farmland for growing wheat.

 

[Baker Alvin]

Thank you for sharing the pictures.