I arrived at one of my favorite subalpine lakes in snohomish county with a friend around 7:15am after a short hike. Upon arrival we see the shack, log book and canoe all still there as i last saw it. The lake was calm and the bugs were plenty, warm but not too humid, a bright sunny day would soon follow. As we loaded our gear in the canoe, i noticed the plopping sounds of trout breeching the surface. My friend and i started to get excited and hastened our expedition, he sat in the front and rowed with his right hand i sat in the back and rowed with my left. We both had fly rods with us, but he was a novice, so i started him off with a spinning rod and cast master. I set up my 3wt with full floating line 8' of tippet, and a size 4 white/silver knudson spider, and never changed that set up all day. After about 10 minutes of fudding around teaching my friend the ways of trout fishing, i finally recieved the first hook up, with a solid cutthroat of 13" casting near structure, my friend sitting near the front watched the take before his eyes, and from there the trip was a success. I landed the fish after a bit of a struggle, the fish wrapped itself around a submerged log, so i let the line slack and the fish swam out and freed itself, then after a couple minutes i landed it, these cutts in this lake fight extremely hard and double my 3wt over everytime. A few casts later my friend lands his first another beautiful cutt of 12" on his spinning set up. I decided to switch gears, we tried trolling a bit, both with fly rods now. Him with my 6wt and an orange knudson spider, he did get a hit and missed it but nothing else after that. We went back to pounding structure, logs and floating grass bogs. after another hour i caught 3 more 12"-13" cutts, he got 1 more 13" cutt then we called it a day as the weather started to get hot with a total of 4 for me and 2 for him.it was a glorius day and a day my friend wont soon forget. His very first cutthroat, and new found love of trout fishing. the meat on all these fish are excellent deep orange, similar look to coho meat.

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