Since almost every body of water that has trout in it is either frozen over or blown out by all of the precipitation we've had as of late, I decided to head to Pyramid, once I found out that it was finally (but only partially) open. The damage to the area is quite evident, but at least a few places were open and without destruction. There is a rather wide mud line in the water along the east facing shorelines and it seems like those of us that waded out deep enough and were able to cast into the clear water, we got into fish. The others...not so much.
Wednesday was the best, landing ten, this 33 inch, 16 pounder being the nicest (and my personal best). I topped my waders when horsing this fish in, so while posing for the picture, I was freezing my @$$ off (literally!) and I had to leave soon after to get into dry clothes and warm up. Still worth it, though!
Yesterday was a lot slower, I only landed four, and today I got the skunk. I headed back over the hill before more snow could fall and slow the traffic, or possibly even close 80 again. I caught almost all of the trout on a black popcorn beetle with a long black maribou tail. There are so few places open, it isn't too hard to narrow down where I was fishing.
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