One of the lakes in our region that gets less attention that it deserves, in my opinion, is Omak Lake, on the Colville Indian Reservation. I have been fishing this big, beautiful lake for about 30 years. Although I have had feature stories published in magazines and posted numerous reports and photos of my trips to Omak, I am often the only boat on the lake when fishing there. In April last year a friend and I traveled there to inspect the condition of the boat launch on Nicholson Beach. It has always been very rough and the boat I was driving that season was much larger than usual. It didn’t take long to determine that there was no way I was going to put the boat, which was 23 feet long overall, in the lake at this launch. In the shore time we were there we watched a group of fly fishers casting from the shore, and land fish. It reminded me that the big Lahontan cutthroat that inhabit the lake cruise close to the shore in the spring. Casting spoons and spinners works very well. Tribal permits and licenses are required to fish this lake, and others on the reservation.