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CULTUS LAKE. 



This lake is two and one-half miles from Vedder Crossing 

 Inn with a good road to it. The lake is over seven miles long, 

 and most of it is extremely deep. It has numbers of trout in it, 

 cut-throats, rainbows and dolly vardens. There are several 

 boats and canoes on the lake that can be hired. 



The time for fly fishing is in May and early June, and the 

 best water is where one of the creeks runs into the lake, the one 

 at the head being the biggest. Use March Brown, Montreal or 

 Grouse and Claret. / 



Very large dolly vardens can be taken by trolling, and you 

 will also catch some other big trout as well. During the hot 

 summer months the fish go very deep, and the only way to 

 catch them is by using an enormous spoon with a smaller spoon 

 a foot behind it and a single hook with a bunch of worms a 

 few inches behind the small spoon. You must also use a heavy 

 lead and have plenty of line out. There is little sport about 

 this kind of fishing, but it serves to while away an hour or two 

 if you are waiting for the morning and evening fishing in the 

 Vedder. 



In September the water cools off and the fish begin to come 

 up again and you can then catch them with ordinary trolling 

 tackle. 



CULTUS CREEK 



This is a very small stream running out of Cultus Lake 

 into the Vedder about half a mile above the Vedder Crossing 

 Inn. 



This creek is some two and a half miles long and has the 

 advantage of being at its best when the Vedder River is in 

 flood, in June and early July. 



Most of the trout in it are small, but you do now and then 

 get a nice fish of a pound or even a pound and a half, but they 

 are by no means plentiful. 



There is only one way to fish it and that is to go up to the 

 lake and wade the creek down. The trout will take the fly well, 

 but the stream is so bushy the ordinary overhead cast is seldom 

 practical. 



Small Black Gnats, March Brown and Royal Coachman are 

 the best flies. 



TUMCUHAI CREEK 



This creek runs into the Vedder River five miles above the 

 Vedder Crossing Inn. There is a wagon road on the north side 

 of the Vedder, but it takes you up on the wrong side, as the 

 creek runs in on the south, but you can get across on the cable 

 bridge. 



