The Round Lake caper was archival! I busted out of my office at 4:00 on Thursday and turned on to Forest Service road 63 East of Ripplebrook at about 5:30. Twenty miles later after choking on ten miles of gravel road I find the road was washed out from the flood of '96. Now it's 6:00 and I have two choices: I can try to hike in... it looks like I'm close on the map, but forest service maps aren't very accurate. My other choice is to drive all the way back out and find somewhere else to go. The problem is I have to pick up my Daughter at Suttle Lake at noon the next day. I choose to hike it. 300 yards later I find the road starts again! I hike and hike and three miles later find the trail with three cars and a camper parked there. So I hike in, set up my tent, blow up my float tube and am fishing by 7:00. I'd always wanted to fish this lake since reading about it in Jim Bradburys book. Now I rig with a size 16 flashback pheasant tail nymph to match the Calebaetis hatch. In two hours I landed two nice Brookies and two nice Browns the biggest about 18". I'll take that any day. The funny part was I hooked one for about every ten strikes. The next morning I did about the same but left frustrated at having missed so many fish. It could have been spectacular. Nice lake, real nice fish. The only other fishermen there were tossing spinners with no luck.
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Round Lake anyone?
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