I decided to make a trip out to the lake that started my interest in high lake fishing. I went on an overnight with a group of friends in 2021 and was surprised at the quality of fish, so I'd been thinking about returning ever since. I headed straight out from work Friday and made it to the lake by 7:30pm. I got plenty of bites, but no connections before dark. I was on the lake by 6:30am on Saturday and it was glass for the first few hours.
I picked up one brook early, but mostly just a lot of frustrating short strikes. About 11am I was casting along the steep section of shoreline and hooked into a quality fish. It was a quick minute of exciting runs and roostertailing line before it threw the hook. I didn't get a great look, but I estimated 18" range and at that point I wasn't sure what type of trout it was (pretty sure cutbow now). Later in the afternoon I again hooked into a nice fish along the steep shoreline. It put up a good fight, but this time I got it in and it was a 15" cutbow.
I caught a few more brookies as the day wore on. The average size I caught this weekend (1st) was pretty disappointing compared to what I had caught in 2021 (2nd).
Just as I was about to head in at the end of the night I had another quality fish take my fly. Turned out to be a nice 14" brown, which I didn't know were in the lake.
Overall it was a slow day...4 brooks, 1 cutbow, and 1 brown in over 12 hours of sitting in the tube. Black beadhead semi-seal leeches stripped on intermediate line accounted for most of the action.
I picked up one brook early, but mostly just a lot of frustrating short strikes. About 11am I was casting along the steep section of shoreline and hooked into a quality fish. It was a quick minute of exciting runs and roostertailing line before it threw the hook. I didn't get a great look, but I estimated 18" range and at that point I wasn't sure what type of trout it was (pretty sure cutbow now). Later in the afternoon I again hooked into a nice fish along the steep shoreline. It put up a good fight, but this time I got it in and it was a 15" cutbow.
I caught a few more brookies as the day wore on. The average size I caught this weekend (1st) was pretty disappointing compared to what I had caught in 2021 (2nd).
Just as I was about to head in at the end of the night I had another quality fish take my fly. Turned out to be a nice 14" brown, which I didn't know were in the lake.
Overall it was a slow day...4 brooks, 1 cutbow, and 1 brown in over 12 hours of sitting in the tube. Black beadhead semi-seal leeches stripped on intermediate line accounted for most of the action.
