Fishing - Blue Lake Eastern Washington

If you are looking for a new place to camp and fish try Blue Lake in Eastern Washington.

My cousin and I have stayed there a number of times and have always had a great time. The camping area is always packed in the summer months with lots of interesting people.
The trout fishing in the lake is very robust. One time we were trolling the shoreline near the highway just outside the drop off and four times we had double hookups which was really exciting. Then as we approached a point where we saw six or so bank fisherman that were trying their luck, we had the fifth double hookup, two 14" rainbows!
This was not pleasing to the bank fisherman who began to yell at us and a couple of them began to throw rocks at us. Then one of them cast out a large lead weight which landed in the boat next to me. I grabbed his line, cut the weight off and we waved good-bye and motored off.
We didn't think we had done anything wrong as we were well outside where they were casting out to, but they took offense to us both catching "their" fish. So lesson learned, stay out of range and share the lake.

Story by Tommy Headley