Been working hard to set up my Mom’s cabin and begin setting up the Trout Lodge, but with help from friends, Stan Hislop (photo attached) and Jack DeVries plus a short visit from our son, Julius, and then a few days with our new Trout Lodge housekeeper, Chris George. Talk about weather…rain on snow…major flooding on the Bulkley River and Babine Lake’s tributaries are running full with a rare report of flooding at Pinkut Creek, a Salmon Enhancement Project feeding Babine Lake. This could be a rival to 1997 and 2007 since so much snow pack is still in the mountains and some lower sections of the valleys too. The latest weather forecast is much better with sunny warm skies but that warmth could also produce snowmelt at just the wrong time for the Bulkley and our Steelhead Camp.
The fishing on Rainbow Alley is picking up nicely with Stan, Julius, Chris and I enjoying some nice catches of which some went straight to the frying pan…I think the best tasting trout anywhere. From my Mom’s cabin we could see daily improvement in the number of feeding fish plus the largest trout are starting to move in as well. The fry are hatching so it’s great to use a floating fly line with a salmon fry pattern and that’s all you need for a good time. We are very fortunate to have the 110 mile long Babine Lake to stabilize the water clarity and flows, otherwise there wouldn’t be any fishing at all. So far the creeks are holding in terms of putting out clean water rather than dirty so we are also lucky there…the rain has been light and steady but on the Bulkley watershed, steady and harder so many homeowners are being evacuated as of yesterday.
Another positive Babine note is the mushroom (Morel) production from all the rains…they will be and are popping up everywhere so we added that delicacy in with our fresh trout and of course Molson Canadian beer and Crown Royal. Stan is staying at the Trout Lodge now, enjoying the solitude, our dog Sawsha, great fishing and he has plans to not only smoke some fish in our smokehouse, but also morels! June 1st we will have full staff and lots of projects to do for our first guests arriving June 16th…we still have one full service package open June 16-22 so don’t let the weather and flooding reports stop you from experiencing the Babine on any day…we will be there enjoying the fruits of an incredible watershed that provides opportunities like no other…plus with Anita’s fine cooking and the charm of living in a log lodge and cabins built before I was born, well, it doesn’t get any better…”There is only one Babine.”
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Pierce
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