I haven’t posted for a while so thought I’d share some stories and pics.
We backpacked into Round, Sand and Fish Lakes for three days. There were lots of little Cutts and Greyling in Round; kids had a blast. We didn’t put a line in Sand but could see hundreds of fish cruising the clear water along the shoreline. Didn’t hook up with anything but Greyling in Fish.
Some young men heading down as we were hiking up said they found the Brookies in the south corner but I could never chase them down. There was a pure black Mayfly hatching the whole time we were there. I used up every black fly in my box. I had my last one on a water bobber that got a weak spot in the leader so I snapped it off and accidentally dropped it in the water in front of me.
Before I could reach down to pick it up a fish grabbed it and ran off with it for me with two feet of leader and all.
Truth be told the fish would hit anything that was floating high on the water. If you pulled something just below the surface with a water bobber they were a little more picky.
Never had a bite on any kind of spinner, spoon, or lure of any kind.
Speaking of bugs, the mosquitoes and biting flies were atrocious. The clouds would roll in every afternoon for a light sprinkling that would calm them a little but we did have a dry lightning strike not far from our camp that turned a full size tree into chopped cord wood blasted into a 50 yard radius, yikes!
Great report and beautiful pictures – thanks for posting.
Enough with the grayling pics people!![angelic][angelic][;)] I can’t get away to try for them in the next while so i am sitting behind the puter sulking and gawking about the pics.
Thanks for posting your report, sounds like a blast except for all the bugs. Great pictures, did you catch any greyling over 12 inches?
Awesome pics. Thanks for sharing!
Great pictures, been wondering where you have been I haven’t seen any posts for awhile.
great report and those are some awesome pictures.
thanks for sharing.
Great report! I’ve seen lightning blow a tree into a million pieces as well. Kinda spooky. Like putting an egg in the microwave! BOOM!
Great Pics!
The pic’s of the greyling are by far the best pic’s I have seen on this site. Very original and a great job.
Most of them were quite small this year. A few made it close to 12" but I’m afraid they are no longer swimming. Nothing like a campfire baked greyling on a good pack trip. I’ll probably wander up again in Sepember, weather permitting, if anyone would like to tag along. I want to climb the peak above it with the binoculars just to enjoy the view of the backside of the Notch Mountain area - in between casts that is.