TR (with photos): brook trout lake

I'd heard about a nearby lake that was reputed to have some nice brook
trout (by our standards), so I took my pontoon boat out. It's true.

Here's a photo of the lake:

http://www.ruralnetwork.net/~troutbum/web/chlw.jpg

This is atypical of the lakes around here, which are typically sterile,
deep, alpine bowls and hold cutthroat. This lake is relatively
productive and shallow nearly everywhere, except for an deep spring-fed
pool about an acre large at the far end (relative to the photo). Of
course, that's where most of the fish are.

I only spent and hour and a half, and my objective, which was achieved,
was dinner for three:

http://www.ruralnetwork.net/~troutbum/web/btw.jpg

The fish were eating mostly snails, with some damselfly and other
smaller nymphs mixed in. I caught them on a #10 black bugger, a smaller
version of my legendary Mackinaw fly. :-)

There were some splashy rises, but not enough to go to a dry fly. I
think this lake might be very interesting later in the season when the
caddis and callibaetis are more abundant.

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rw wrote:


I only spent and hour and a half, and my objective, which was achieved,
was dinner for three:

http://www.ruralnetwork.net/~troutbum/web/btw.jpg

The fish were eating mostly snails, with some damselfly and other
smaller nymphs mixed in. I caught them on a #10 black bugger, a smaller
version of my legendary Mackinaw fly. :-)

There were some splashy rises, but not enough to go to a dry fly. I
think this lake might be very interesting later in the season when the
caddis and callibaetis are more abundant.



Pretty lake.

Nice catch of fish. That bottom one is a beaut. 14"? and FAT.

Willi

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I'd heard about a nearby lake that was reputed to have some nice brook
trout (by our standards), so I took my pontoon boat out. It's true.

Here's a photo of the lake:

http://www.ruralnetwork.net/~troutbum/web/chlw.jpg


The stuff they take for granted, people living in the west. A very pretty
place, and fishy-looking.

Flying Squirrel wrote:

The stuff they take for granted, people living in the west. A very pretty
place, and fishy-looking.

Who says we take it for granted?

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Flying Squirrel wrote:

The stuff they take for granted, people living in the west. A very
pretty
place, and fishy-looking.

Who says we take it for granted?

Not 'take it for granted' in that way. I just meant you wouldn't find
anything like it in the mid-Atlantic, where I currently live. I've lived in
the Pacific Northwest, and I'm acutely aware of that huge budget of natural
splendor back west.

Although it's not what I meant to say, some there obviously do take it for
granted, as I'm sure you'll agree. (The pace of development I saw between
Lake Washingington and Snoqualmie Pass in two years was absolutely
breathtaking.)