This year I did two trips to Lake Chopaka up near Tonasket Washington. The first trip was in May with a group of Boeing retired friends and a few of the fly fishermen from the Lake Wenatchee area. My Boeing buddies were Tim Opitz (aka CowboyT) and John Krueger (aka JK) and from the Plain Fly Tyers group Doug Pendelton, Tom Bartlett, Tommy Towne, and Dick Nicklas.
I pulled the All About the Fly drift boat and we set the Canvas Cabin, our 15 X 20 wall tent up, Jeff had his camper and Tommy pulled, well sorta pulled his trailer up. There is a really steep hill to get up to make your way to the lake. Tommy blew his tranny up about a third of the way up and so I got it to camp and then got it home. I think everyone agreed, wall tent only next year!!! The hill is a mean one.
We did really well fishing mostly with nymphs like wooly buggers and leach patterns. White, black and green seemed to work well. There were a few hatches coming off where emergers worked pretty well also. Tim caught 20 some fish on one white leach pattern fly so he was pretty jazzed about the place. JK did well and used the drift boat most of the time.
We had some great meals cooking with the big camp stove and it was the first time using the new camp kitchen.
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| Lake Chopaka Trout... some had white tips on the lower fins like a Brookie |
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| Lake Chopaka Bow with a white bugger hanging from it's mouth..... |
Every morning around 9:30 a parade of pontoon boats would head out for the morning fish and head to each end of the lake. There is a shallow end that does well with chronimids and the opposite end is deep with nice coves to fish with nymphs. Everyone had a great time, caught some good fish and laughed a lot which is what it is all about....
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| Looking towards the shallow end of the lake |
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Looking over at the campground from the opposite side of the lake
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