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Chitwood Lake Report
Snohomish County, WA

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11/01/2014
Cutthroat Trout
Afternoon
11/01/2014
5
3016

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT:

If you hike to Hanson/Chitwood or Smelling/Julia, you will park at the gate on ... Scotty Road I think it's called. DO NOT park in the turn around where the 8 No Parking signs are. Park on the side of the road just before that. We ran into the local property owner on the hike. He aggressively patrols that turn around. I can hear it now ... oh this, and oh that .... you're in his world out there. If you want to avoid problems, dont park in front of the no parking signs.

Now on to the report.

On the way back down from Hanson we stopped at Chitwood We didn't feel there was time to inflate the raft, and we were tired anyway, so we just fished from shore. Bobber and worm for the force of nature, and I was throwing the gold castmaster, and then tried otherthings. We caught fish on both bobber/worm and on the gold castmaster.

Observations - there was clearly not as many fish in Chitwood, although we only fished the corner where there was access. Maybe the bite would have been stronger out on the water. But, the fish were definitely bigger. We did not release any fish from this lake - the whopper and the 2 good sized ones were the only landed. But MAN ... you should have seen the leviathan that followed my castmaster up to the shore. It was substantially bigger than the 13 incher in the pic. I would guess 16-17 inches. But I could not entice it to bite.

Again, gorgeous fish, didn't get rained on, but didn't watch time closely enough and ended up walking back to the car in the dakr.

All in all, an amazing day, I'm trashed, the force of nature seems better off than myself now, and if I can heal enough overnight I may try to hit Smelling / Julia tomorrow. I have a feeling however that my feet + my quads + my neck are not going to tolerate another 8-10 mile hike on one day's rest. Oh well.

Fish in this pic were MUCH more goregous when caught.


Comments

The Quadfather
11/2/2014 7:18:00 AM
JonB has turned you into a monster/fishing force to be reconned with!
Enjoying your reports very much.
whorde
11/2/2014 11:42:00 AM
Thanks!
whorde
11/2/2014 11:43:00 AM
Updating both posts with interesting info I forgot ... in Chitwood, the big fish had a completely empty stomach. With the blush on his cheeks, maybe ready to spawn? Not eating? The other two, one just had mush so I didn't look. The third had two minnows, a dragonfly nymph, and was PACKED with tiny, quarter dime sized freshwater clams!
jonb
11/2/2014 8:49:00 PM
That one is a fatty, there are definately some slobs in there. I believe there are cutts pushing 18". my personal best Cutt on the fly rod came from that lake at just a tad over 15".
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