Bill Bendt and I met in the White Mountains on November 2 and fished for the next 3 days. We started out on Becker Lake where Bill landed two very nice fish while I had plenty of bumps but none landed, although two of those bumps resulted in two complete break-offs. That was encouraging.

The next day we went to Big Lake and fished South Cove with some success but not really outstanding either. We went to Railroad Cove and I caught 5 there while Bill landed a couple (all small stockers). As we left the lake, we saw some elk and as our attention was finally off the water, we saw probably 60 elk that evening.

We went back to Becker the next day and didn’t do that weil. A couple of half-hearted bumps each was all we could muster. So, we decided to go to Silver Creek to change things up a bit.

Fishing at Silver Creek can be really good, or it can be plain old slow. This day it was slow. We each caught one fish. Mine is probably my personal best Rainbow. Here’s a photo:

I caught this fish on a size 18 green mayfly emerger pattern tied to 5x flouro tippet on a Sage RPL 9’ 4wt. rod. Want a custom fly rod? Contact me.