My partner, who wishes to be known as "Chum", and I headed out for our first times on this lake. For a first visit, I highly recommend checking out the Sno County Website on the lake (http://www.snopud.com/water/jhprec.htm) and download the map, as it is the best one available, and nice to have on your visit. We hit area 3 on the main lake, and found whitecaps on the center of the lake, while windy along the shore, it was not difficult with Chum and I in my canoe.

Spada has enormous amounts of wood in the lake from its development as a reservoir, making for all sorts of fish habitat. The bottom was well vegetated, too, indicating that this lake probably has a good supply of hatches. Also, with a no internal combustion engines, the lake is huge for canoe, kayak and electric motor row boats. There could easily be many times more fishing pressure than we saw on Saturday without bothering anyone.

Well, on to the fishing: After about 2 hours of fruitless casting of our fly boxes, Chum started catching small fish on dry flies in a shallow bay, and so we goofed around with these, but I tired quickly, and put on a black carey special that has done well for me, and I took a very strong 12" cutt-bow hybrid as our only fish of significance for the day. I have heard that another group fishing off Area 2 caught 40-50 8-12" fish during the same time we were there. Sigh.

Go ahead, fish Spada, see if I care, no float tubes, inflatable boats or wading allowed, and they can fine up to $500 if you violate it..

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