08-05-2018, 12:41 AM
My brother and I made it up to Echo Lake in Murdock Basin today. Due to a missing sign and a later start we got there around 10:00 after bumping a couple of extra miles up to Marshall Lake. We fished along the east side and didn't have a lot of luck at first. Fly-and-bubble wasn't working well as a breeze kept the surface moving. Finally my brother caught a golden on a bit of worm. For quite a while we fished small pieces of nightcrawler on #10 or #12 hooks under bobbers. Not much happening no matter how I varied depth, bait size, etc. So I took the bobber off and fished on the bottom. Bam, I started catching fish. We each caught about 10 trout, mostly goldens with the occasional brook. These were not large fish, as you might expect, but the goldens were brilliant, accented with pink and red on their sides and bellies. The parr bars along their sides proved that they were goldens and not anything else.
We had been concerned that a lot of people would be fishing there. There were a few but not crowds. As someone said, the long, rough road probably discouraged many.
The bite slowed down around 3:00 but we were ready to go anyway.
So I filled a slot in my bucket list and raised my count to 11 species and hybrids caught this year. It's been fun.
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We had been concerned that a lot of people would be fishing there. There were a few but not crowds. As someone said, the long, rough road probably discouraged many.
The bite slowed down around 3:00 but we were ready to go anyway.
So I filled a slot in my bucket list and raised my count to 11 species and hybrids caught this year. It's been fun.
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The older I get the more I would rather be considered a good man than a good fisherman.