montana...and, fawn lake

Ken Fortenberry wrote:



Yeah, and I'd be shocked to learn that fish were
caught from that "lake". Charlie's pix look like
a lake but the weedbeds extend far out from the
shore, they almost met in the middle the year I
hiked by there, making fishing impossible most of
the fishing season. Even if you could somehow cast
over all the weeds and accidentally hook a fish you'd
never be able to drag it back through all the weeds
to land it.


i don't know where you fished or what you "hiked by", but it sure wasn't
the fawn lake i saw...probably one of those other little weedbed lakes
on the way to fawn lake. When were you there? I posted a series of large
file pics for others to see...i'll reduce the file size tonight and
repost just the lake pics so you will have no doubt it's a lake full of
water and not marshy, swampy, or full of weedbeds. You can argue this
one all you want, but you're wrong about the fawn lake we personally
visited and observed last week (i.e., mid-July 2005, which i assume is
within the "fishing season" period you reference).

Fawn Lake is not huge, but it's not small either. It's deep and wide.
It doesn't dry up according to Craig Matthews and Steve H. at the Blue
Ribbon. It holds big brook trout. We all witnessed the rises. Warren
saw the big fish. The rises were within casting distance. the fish were
eating damselflies in big splashy takes. I saw one smaller fish jump
fully from the water after something. There appeared to be some small
mayfly hatches as well. There weren't any weeds or weedbeds that would
inhibit casting to or landing a fish. There were no above-bottom or
above-surface weeds at all. i'm a poor distance caster, and i got a
parachute adams out to the area of the rises. warren is a good distance
caster and he did a much better job than i of reaching the area of the
rises and splashes in front of him. ask him about the fish he saw. a
float tube is obviously the preferable manner of fishing the lake. The
lake was entirely free of any weeds growing up to or above the surface
from the bottom. In one of Charlie's pictures of Fawn Lake, I'm
walking/standing on a log that was just below the water surface. The
footing was mucky on the shore bottom and i'd sink in above my ankles
walking out to the drop off.

jeff

Jeff wrote:
Ken Fortenberry wrote:

Even if you could somehow cast
over all the weeds and accidentally hook a fish you'd
never be able to drag it back through all the weeds
to land it.

i don't know where you fished or what you "hiked by", but it sure
wasn't the fawn lake i saw...probably one of those other little
weedbed lakes on the way to fawn lake.

Jeff - sorry to interrupt (it's really pretty funny), but since you have
now found Fawn Lake to be real, would you make the trip again? It looks
like some of the prettiest country on God's earth, but then again, I can
only imagine just about all of the Yellowstone area is. After viewing
your photos, it's definitely on my to-do list.
--
TL,
Tim
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"Tim J." wrote

It looks
like some of the prettiest country on God's earth, but then again, I can
only imagine just about all of the Yellowstone area is.

may be hard to believe, but mho is that the area north of yellowstone,
following the madison north to ennis (about 60 miles?), and the surrounding
mountains, is even more breathtaking than the park itself.

yfitons
wayno

Tim J. wrote:




Jeff - sorry to interrupt (it's really pretty funny), but since you have
now found Fawn Lake to be real, would you make the trip again? It looks
like some of the prettiest country on God's earth, but then again, I can
only imagine just about all of the Yellowstone area is. After viewing
your photos, it's definitely on my to-do list.

Warren and I discussed a camping trip to the area. It's a beautiful
place and I'd go again, no question. The hike round trip staying on the
marked trail according to Warren's GPS was almost 14 miles. On the way
out, we departed the trail and made a bee-line down the mountain to the
car once we saw the parking area, saving about 1-2 miles. Some of the
views are inspiring...but that's true about a lot of Yellowstone. It's
not a hard hike by any means, though there are a few spots where we all
stopped to get our breath along the way. The lake isn't clearly visible
from the trail, but it's close enough to the established campsites by
the Gardner that it's an easy walk.

Fawn Creek and the Gardner near Fawn Lake have little brookies eager to
attack a fly. On our way out, we spent about an hour and had a lot of
fun catching those fish. I bet they'd be tasty for breakfast or supper.
Warren caught 5 out of one pretty run.

This trip wasn't really planned around fishing the lake...we honestly
didn't know what we'd find. I'm not very experienced in getting those
big lake brookies yet, but next time i'll have ample streamers,
damselflies, and chironomids, and hopefully a float tube. It would be a
pleasant place to float away a day...unless of course forty happens by,
in which case i guess the lake turns into a weedbed. g

jeff

"Jeff"

This trip wasn't really planned around fishing the lake...we honestly
didn't know what we'd find. I'm not very experienced in getting those big
lake brookies yet, but next time i'll have ample streamers, damselflies,
and chironomids, and hopefully a float tube. It would be a pleasant place
to float away a day...unless of course forty happens by, in which case i
guess the lake turns into a weedbed. g

jeff

Methinks that you just exposed to the light of day a 40 favorite secret
spot- no! no! stay away don't go there!there ain't no fish there!- yada yada
yada.
jh

John Hightower wrote:



Methinks that you just exposed to the light of day a 40 favorite secret
spot- no! no! stay away don't go there!there ain't no fish there!- yada yada
yada.
jh


some of us assumed that might be forty's response when confronted with
the reality of Fawn Lake...but hell, you gotta admire the fella for
giving truth to the old joke about "that's my story and i'm sticking to
it!" of course, the story does seem to change from time to time.

jeff (good seeing you again john...next time, hope you'll stick around
longer)

"Jeff"

jeff (good seeing you again john...next time, hope you'll stick around
longer)


I hope so too- I was really disappointed things didn't work out this year
for the trip. I really would have liked to spent a day fishing with you and
IJ and I really wanted to do slough this year. I did get a day fishing
calibaetis on Quake and I really enjoyed that. Its kind of funny, but I
kind of like still fishing on lakes- relaxing, you can ponder the scenery
and the meaning of life etc. But, I get really bored fishing on big slow
rivers- go figure. I had hoped to squeeze Elk Lake (where IJ skunked us all
last year) and the Ruby in also- but that was just too many miles for a 3
day whirlwind tour.

I don't think I'll ever get the picture of IJ holding a flaming can of white
gas with that look of "uh oh" on his face out of my mind though.

jh

"John Hightower" wrote in message
...

"Jeff"

This trip wasn't really planned around fishing the lake...we honestly
didn't know what we'd find. I'm not very experienced in getting those big
lake brookies yet, but next time i'll have ample streamers, damselflies,
and chironomids, and hopefully a float tube. It would be a pleasant place
to float away a day...unless of course forty happens by, in which case i
guess the lake turns into a weedbed. g

jeff

Methinks that you just exposed to the light of day a 40 favorite secret
spot- no! no! stay away don't go there!there ain't no fish there!- yada
yada yada.

That's the card he'll play. Experience suggests that this is exactly why he
never went there.

Wolfgang
believe what you will......but then, that's what we do, ainna?

Tim J. wrote:

Jeff - sorry to interrupt (it's really pretty funny), but since you have
now found Fawn Lake to be real, would you make the trip again? ...

Fawn Weedbed is a *great* touron destination. Just read
the brochures and look at Chuckie Choc's pictures. Hell,
Jeffie recommended it before he'd ever even seen it, it's
*that* good.

Seriously, given all that Yellowstone has to offer nobody
in their right mind would make Fawn Weedbed a fishing
destination or even recommend that grizzly area as one
worth an expensive Yellowstone vacation with a horse
outfitter as Jeffie did sight unseen.

I've been told to fish it just after ice out, after I
complained bitterly to the author of a guide book about
wasting my time looking at it. And yes Choc, the bitter
complaining did happen while seated on a barstool.

--
Ken Fortenberry

"Ken Fortenberry" wrote in message
news
...yes Choc, the bitter
complaining did happen while seated on a barstool.

As, we are left to presume in light of the evidence, did the reconnaissance.
By now, it must have occurred even to you that they told you Fawn lake isn't
worth going to simply because they didn't like you......ainna?

Wolfgang