Elk to the left ~ Elk to the right ~ Elk in the road

Last week Prez Dave was discussing with Sec Dale about the possible of making
a fishing trip to Anthony Lake this week. We were ON for Tuesday.
Sec Dale put out a APB to all club members of plans to go fishing Tuesday to Beat the Heat, and asked who wants to join us?
A couple of days later, Dave called back and said his wife reminded him of a previous obligation - can't go fishing.
By this time several members replied with Heidi and Harold saying YEA, "let's go fishing" but maybe not Tuesday. We decided on Thursday, which was to be a few degrees hotter than Tuesday.
A couple of days later, Harold emailed back saying, his wife reminded him of a previous obligation - can't go fishing.

Heidi, and Dale went fishing Thursday.

Leaving Walla Walla at 10:00 am it was getting hot; we made our way through Summerville and on to La Grande to pick up a bite of lunch for Dale and Buddy. The entire NE Oregon area was very smokey again this year, much like last year.

The Elkhorns from Baker Valley

We arrived at the lake at 1:00 and it was beginning to get warm as we put our boats on the water and Buddy went for a short swim. 

Today there was a lot of "traffic" on the lake, and with the oppressive heat wave of the past week, we found that fishing was slow. 

Dale talked with another fisherman on the water, and we were talking about fishing the lake the week before, and he told Dale that 3 weeks ago, after July 4, he was hooking 3x-4x as many fish in the day.