Red Lake
Spent 3 hours late Saturday morning tubing all the way around Red Lake.
I smell like skunk.
At least the scenery was pretty good.
Very few fish caught by anyone. Talked to everyone I passed as I trolled various buggers parallel to shore and tossed a few nymphs and dries in the shallows by the inlet. Two bankies had landed a total of 3 on powerbait and one guy trolling crawlers behind an attractor also landed 3. Everyone else on the lake: nada.
Saw a few rises near the inlet around noon, but never hooked anything.
However, trolling a big rubber legged bugger on the way back to the dam, I had what I thought was a short strike. Kept trolling. When I reeled in to get out of the lake, I discovered I had no fly.
Either that knot sucked or that was a pretty good fish...
Spent the rest of the afternoon scouting the area--drove to Markleville and looked at the East Carson for the first time (and had a nice lunch with my daughter), but the boredom factor for the 13-yr old non-fisher kept me out of the water after that. (2 out of 3 daughters love fishing, but this weekend it's just me and the nonfisher at home...)
Mike
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