On a Friday afternoon in West Seattle last month, a half-dozen fly fishers sipped beers and reclined on couches as Tacoma angler Giancarlo Lawrence shared his best summer story from a day casting on a Cascades river.
"I was reeling in this cutthroat trout while standing on a rock. I knelt down to net it and this bull trout — maybe 8 pounds — comes cruising up at this fish as fast as it can and puts the whole thing in its mouth," Lawrence said. "My fly came loose and hooked the bull trout. So I'm fighting this bull trout running down the stream. It was like a movie."
Lawrence almost got two fish with one fly. Alas, both got away.
