I've been everywhere...man

I feel like that old Johnny Cash song, I really have been all over the great northwest in the last three weeks and have had a chance to fish nearly everywhere that I went. The first leg of my trip was to Northern Idaho where I fished for native cutthroats on some miniscule streams and some stocked rainbows and brookies on some bigger water. Then it was off to Portland Oregon. I fished with Nate, and we had a great time exploring some less traveled creeks in the Columbia Gorge. We found some really beautiful native redband trout in the gorge streams travlelling east toward Hood River. We then worked our way around Mt. Hood where on the eastern side we fished Cold Springs Creek and found a slough of native coastal cutthroat (at least that's what I think they are after looking at Cutthroat Stalkers cutthroat ID page). Later we fished a very small tailwater to a crappy looking reservoir and caught some brookies. The highlight of the trip for sure was the small, very fast water of Cold Springs Creek catching those little and sometimes not so little cutts. Now I am back in Southeast Idaho and have found myself doing some reclamation, I mean brook trout extermination, work on a little stream north of Dubois, Idaho almost to the continental divide and Wyoming border. We found some really nice cutthroat in the small stream and also found that if we fished worms in the creek we could catch lots of really big (10-14 in) brook trout. So the three amigos harvested about 60 brookies from the stream in two days and had a great time doing it. We also fished a little reservior filled with cutthroat called Paul's Reservoir near the Idaho/Montana border. Finally yesterday, I got to fish one of my all time favorite "fun water" at Birch Creek. Really, it turned out to be much more than we expected when we found a great stonefly hatch on the creek and got to fish huge flies to voracious fish. Tobee and I fished a stretch of the creek .3 miles long and landed over 100 fish in three hours. There is a reason Birch Creek is popular, I'm just glad to be able to fish some places that not many people fish. I have some great pictures but don't have them downloaded yet so those will come in the future.