Northwest Fishing Reports

From my Beehive Reservoir report earlier today:

Please bear with me, I need to vent:

Beehive Reservoir or should I say (CHELAN COUNTY DUMP) My wife had to work today so I made a quick trip up to Beehive Reservoir to check out this small lake. I counted over a hundred people in and around the lake today, mostly families with young children which is a very good thing. The bad thing is that this place looks like a city dump. After fishing for a couple of hours I decided I just couldn’t take the mess anymore. I walked back to my truck with plans of grabbing a couple of large lawn & garden trash bags that I keep in the glove box for emergencies. On the way back to my truck my dog gave out a loud yelp to let me know about a large treble hook attached to about 50’ of monofilament buried in her front paw. After extricating my dog from the treble hook and wad of mono (Now completely PO’ed) I made it back to my truck and started picking up trash. I was able to fill both large (40 gal) trash bags within 100' of my pickup. It will be along time before I make it back to Beehive Reservoir unless I do it with a volunteer trash pick up crew.

On a side note: I found out today that you can remove a hook from a dogs paw the same way you remove a hook from a persons hand by using about two feet of heavy braided line.

Thanks for reading my vent. Now it’s time for me to do something about it. Does anyone have any experience with organizing a volunteer clean up crew?

This puts a bold Black Stamp on all Sportsman and BIG D you are the man for spreading your arms and hands to help support and clean up the place.

I don't know where this place is thats a first!:-# :cyclopsan

A group run would be a better cause in your local area and waters and we put on and up many times in areas would you do this in your back yard? Please don't litter pack out the trash:batman: and in todays world many would answer Yes sad but true and thanks again for your effort and support:salut: and glad the Dog is OK


Tight lines fish on!

Thanks Big D, I posted a comment in your fishing report. I seem to remember someone posting 2-3 years ago on a hiking forum I visit they were a scoutmaster and there was a big clean up every summer with the boyscout troops. There's no excuse that much garbage gets dumped though. I believe that's Forest Service land, so you could call the Ranger station and ask what's going on.

I've had similar rants and raves fishing Rufus Woods and the Pot Holes. The net pen area on the reservation side is a dump too. It's getting worse and worse and I'm tired of my favorite fishing lakes getting gated and blocked off.

Yep that place is over run with morons. I stopped fishing there years ago. If there isn't an active cleanup I might look into seeing if my old boy scout troop would want to do one once a year for community service hours.

Thanks for cleaning up somebody elses trash. Thats just sad that you were able to fill two large bags of trash. I try to pick up trash whenever I can too. I just took out a bunch of mono line with hooks and sinkers from Pine Lake. I casted out my kastmaster and let it sink to the bottom while I rebaited my kid sisters pole. Then I reeled up tons of line caught on the treble hook of my kastmaster spoon.

HEY BIGD: Sorry to hear about the pup. Hope the paw is healing up ok.


Great Job!!! Takes a more than most people imagine to put yourself out there and bust butt to make things right.

You officialy invited to my place for smoked ribs and a cold one.

Check out the work my family did recently - http://www.washingtonlakes.com/forum/ya ... eanup.aspx