Well, just got back from sunny Okanogan County so I thought I'd share a bit..
Marty and his friend Jesse came up to the house for few days and we hit some local coverts for grouse and Lost Lake for brookies. Let's just say there's more fish than grouse. Marty brought his chocolate lab Roxy and she put up a few birds for them. Jesse got caught sleeping standing up and missed his bird and Marty said he was a bit behind his bird. That's all we saw for feathers that day.
Lost lake was kinder to us, we all jumped in the Smokercraft and managed to only cross line a couple of times. In between we tagged some of Lost's colorful brookies. Marty tagged the biggest, around 14 inches if my guesstimate is correct.
It was fun having these two guys visit and share new stories and humor. Roxy did a nice job of getting what few birds seem to be around.
After they left I hopped on my TW200 and hit some deep coverts on the mountain behind the house over two days it paid off with 3 grouse, all ruffed, and one each juvenile, hen, and male, the latter being very good sized. There may not be a lot of birds, but they are damn well fed. Each birds crop was packed with berries and fir needles.
