Flat light and a covered sky today, with a faint E drift with a settled glass. Fortune Ponds should fish best around bays that hold the day's warmth today. One clear peak today: the morning. Fish confidently and change only when the bites stop. Shortening days concentrate the feeding into fewer hours.
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Out in Snohomish County, Washington, sits Fortune Ponds. It sits at 4,895 feet above sea level. You can fish the entire water from one spot if you pick it well. On size it sits at the modest end of our Snohomish County list. The closest town, Gold Bar, is 24 miles distant. Sultan follows at 29 miles, then Leavenworth at 31 miles. No county line comes close, which keeps the paperwork simple.
Depth remains unrecorded, so treat the first session as a survey. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. Read the surface for the wind lane, then fish the edge of it. Reported across Snohomish County: Chinook salmon, pink salmon, Coho salmon and largemouth bass. Several of these carry legal protection or closed seasons; the rulebook comes before the rod. On Fortune Ponds the first feature you find is usually worth a session.
The year swings from about 24°F in December to roughly 57°F in August. Winter closes the water for a while, and the reopening is worth catching. Expect a solid lid for months and a thaw around mid April. The season between ice runs from about mid April to late November. Right after break-up, and again as the nights sharpen, is when to go. Expect Fortune Ponds to follow that timing.
No access rule appears in what we hold. Access points are not mapped for this water, which suits people who like quiet. Bass water: a Texas-rigged worm near cover, a spinnerbait when you need to cover ground. Read any posted signs at the access point rather than assuming. Some water is controlled locally without a sign saying so. Should this one be busy, Pear Lake is 0.7 miles off. Check the position on Fortune Ponds before loading the car.
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| 5.8 | 3.4 | 2.3 | 1 | 2.5 | 4.4 | 6 | 6.5 | 7.9 | 8.7 | 9.6 | 10.1 | 10 | 10 | 9.6 | 8.9 | 9 | 7.8 | 7.9 | 7.4 | 7.6 | 8.1 | 6.2 | 8 |
| 40° | 40° | 40° | 39° | 38° | 38° | 37° | 39° | 40° | 43° | 45° | 46° | 47° | 48° | 48° | 47° | 45° | 43° | 42° | 42° | 43° | 43° | 43° | 43° |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 0.3 |
| 30.14 | 30.14 | 30.11 | 30.1 | 30.1 | 30.07 | 30.06 | 30.04 | 30.04 | 30.02 | 30 | 29.98 | 29.95 | 29.91 | 29.88 | 29.88 | 29.86 | 29.87 | 29.86 | 29.84 | 29.81 | 29.77 | 29.76 | 29.81 |
| 95 | 95 | 94 | 93 | 89 | 85 | 86 | 78 | 75 | 74 | 72 | 70 | 70 | 71 | 71 | 73 | 75 | 79 | 79 | 80 | 79 | 79 | 82 | 89 |
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