Well, it looks like the fridge's ignition control module may be faulty. It's now on the hot water heater which has gone into "lockout" mode at least twice since I did the swap. Before the swap the hot water tank was working fine. The fridge is working well with the hot water heater's ICM - it has only had the check light come on once; before the swap it came on whenever the fridge ran for a few hours.
On to a more interesting topic - fishing! Don and I headed for the hills to fish a small lake that should have a good sedge hatch about now. Richard (Bushman) gave us directions for a shortcut which was great; we got there about twice as fast as usual. It was sunny and hot with a slight breeze - very nice after such a cool, wet spring! We had the lake to ourselves, and we found some fish on the shoal that were eating sedges, but sadly the feeding binge was short - less than an hour. I managed to get some on a no hackle Elk Hair Caddis, and a couple more on a pupa. I also hooked some on a chironomid. There were quite a few small tan caddis hatching but, as I said, the fish only came up for them for a short time. They basically disappeared after 3:30 PM, which wasn't surprising considering that the sun was high and wind had calmed down. The water there is so clear that I'm sure the fish go into hiding when the conditions are like that. We flogged the water until about 5 pm or so, then we decided to go try Dairy Lake for the evening.
Dairy was quiet, and there was only one other party on the lake. They said it had been slow. For the first couple of hours there was little activity and not much hatching. The water was murky. Don got a few takes on various flies (he almost lost a rod on one!), and I got a nice fish in a Kamloops Pupa. At about 7 pm quite a few small sedges and the odd large Traveller Sedge were hatching, and fish started rising. I got some takes on a Mikulak sedge and hooked and lost a couple of nice ones on a Kamloops Pupa. The rise only last for about 1/2 hour, and after it waned we decided to pack up and take off so we would have some daylight left to help us find our way back the way we came in. On the way out I noticed the Explorer's computer said "Check air ride system". I hope it's not serious, i.e. expensive!
Either the sedge hatch is just starting (I hope), or it's ending. Either way, it wasn't going great guns today.
Wendy and Judy hung out at Tunkwa today, made a puzzle and took Spratley for a long walk over to the Provincial Campground to use the phone. They said it was quite hot here today, and the mosquitoes were (are!) vicious at dusk - a downside to warmer weather...
Cheers! KW
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