Fuller

[Ed Wahl]

Fuller is fishing quite well right now. Had a plant last week. New this year is asphalt at the dam end of the lake.
Caught tons of rubber trout.

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a288/edfish333/Fuller%20Lake%20Ospreys/fullerlake016_zps8ea942b2.jpg (http://s13.photobucket.com/user/edfish333/media/Fuller%20Lake%20Ospreys/fullerlake016_zps8ea942b2.jpg.html)

Just one Brownie.

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a288/edfish333/Fuller%20Lake%20Ospreys/fullerlake015_zps181f901c.jpg (http://s13.photobucket.com/user/edfish333/media/Fuller%20Lake%20Ospreys/fullerlake015_zps181f901c.jpg.html)

When you're there you may as well feed the Ospreys too. Click on the pic.

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a288/edfish333/Fuller%20Lake%20Ospreys/th_fullerlake020_zps9f3fe3c7.jpg (http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a288/edfish333/Fuller%20Lake%20Ospreys/fullerlake020_zps9f3fe3c7.mp4)

I caught maybe a couple dozen rubber 'bows, one brown, and one Osprey. Luckly the Osprey got free before had to help it. Just let it be known, this Osprey will try for your fish even when you think the fish is too close. And it doesn't know your flyline is way stronger than your leader. My bad, I wondered just how close I could get it. I stripped the fish in to about 6 ft away from me. The bird came in at an angle that caught my line in it's shoulder area, when it tried to take off again it just cinched the line and fell back into the water. When going in to untangle that damn bird I puckered so hard my head hurt. Lucky for me it's next attempt to take off threw off my line so he got free and I still had the fish on.
Two feet from an Osprey doesn't seem that bad until you're looking at those talons.

What could have been a boring trip to a put and take fishery turned into a 'Wildlife Kingdom' moment, minus the Jim Fowler to go in and fix everything.

Kind of smokey but not really bad at all. Shig you should go up there.

Ed

[Blueracer]

Sweeeet crazy fishing Ed! Thanks for the update on Fuller! That would of been a nice video for a GoPro ;)

[SHigSpeed]

They paved the dam parking? If so, that's good - the drop was getting to be too big for my poor car!

I was thinking of going tomorrow but I'm going to work on some float tubes. How was the smoke?

So did you tangle with two osprey? Great video!

_SHig

[Blueracer]

Video? what video? help help

[Ed Wahl]

BR, click on the last picture, it's a vid. Ed

[gene goss]

Thats a great video Ed.....how many re-takes did you have to do, to make that video.

[Alosa]

Not that you are 'baiting' the osprey, but be careful. I'd hate to see you land in as much hot water as this guy:

http://www.komonews.com/home/video/Eagle-baiting-video-lands-local-man-in-hot-water-220441261.html?tab=video&c=y

[Blueracer]

Ohhh my bad. Yes good stuff glad you were rolling.

[Cmcculloch]

Were any surface temps at Fuller noted? I seem to recall temps from a couple of weeks ago, or so, at 65 - 70 degrees were reported on this forum too high for fish release survival.

[SHigSpeed]

Were any surface temps at Fuller noted? I seem to recall temps from a couple of weeks ago, or so, at 65 - 70 degrees were reported on this forum too high for fish release survival.

Because Fuller gets the flow turned on and off regularly (many times a day sometimes) the water temp fluctuates a lot so you never know what you'll find.

Only way to know is to check it when you get there.

_SHig

[Ed Wahl]

I didn't take a temp reading but it was cold. My lower half was pretty numb when I finally left. Hey BR, I hid another video in a phony C&R post, it's pretty funny.