Decided to take the weekend to camp at Depression lake. After an early morning with not a single bite, we decided to venture off and find a decent creek to try. Most of the creeks and rivers in the area have extremely low visibility due to silt from glacier runoffs from Mt Baker. We drove past Swift Creek and immediately stopped to give it a try because of how clear the water looked. It is a decent sized creek with some great fishing holes. after about 15 minutes under the bridge I caught a small rainbow. As we head up the creek the fishing got better, hiding from the current in the spots you would expect them to. I believe we only caught rainbow and brook trout. Most were between 6 to 9 inches, with one bigger rainbow at roughly a foot. The rooster tails are what landed almost every fish, seemingly any that we tried with gold colored flashers. I am also an extremely amateur fly fisherman, but did not succeed on landing one on the fly. I tried a couple mosquito flies (since we were dealing with real mosquito). Overall, this creek should provide a good number of trout, and is a great day hike up the river!

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