Middle Fork under Mt. Si

The Middle Fork became one of my favorite tenkara rivers this year.  While I used to drive up 10 miles of terrible road to fish up near the Pratt or Taylor River confluences this year I stuck to the area around North Bend a lot.   Guess what, bigger fish and I never saw another fisherman unless they were with me.   This spot was very good every time I went there and I got to fish with a great view of Si the whole time.

Back to acrylics today so I’m even with five acrylics and five oils at the 33% done point.  Going back was a bit tough but I used a lot of drying retarder to be able to handle the paint wet a bit longer.  Still the thin nature of acrylic is so different than the thick richness of oils but I’m getting used to it and I think this is my best acrylic to date during the challenge.