Lost Lake

 Wens. 9/16 11 am slightly overcast at the lake, no wind at arrival 

Gary & his 90 year old neighbor Bill

    It was a beautiful, sunny no wind in the valley,

 A perfect day to take my 90 year old neighbor to Lost Lake, was calm with a little overcast.  Water was at  58 degrees and we had the lake almost to ourselves, the only other person on the lake turned out to be a friend of Bill’s. Bill put on his favorite deer hair fly and I put on my zug bug and we started out.  Bill has a problem with his shoulder so he cant cast very well, this forced us to troll a wet fly in search of fish.   It wasn’t long before we started getting some strikes.  I brought a nice 12-13 inch brook to the boat when we realized that we had forgotten the net.  This would haunt Bill later.

     As it turned out we were catching four different sizes of  fish in the lake.  We had a few that were about 6-8 inches, more at 8-10 inches, and several at 12-14 inches. Bill did get a fish that looked to be about 18 inches to the boat but he broke off when we tried to get him into the boat without a net.  The fishing was not fast but we had strikes often enough to keep our interest high.  We both had a lot of tugs that did not set , I imagine it was the smaller fish slapping at our flies.  We both changed flies and fly size often but it did not seem to matter.  As the day progressed the wind came up at times making the fishing a little harder.  My wife loves brook trout and I was told to bring some home for diner, by about 3:30 I had enough fish in the 12/14 range to cook for diner 

By about 3:30  Bill was getting tired so we called it a day.  We talked with Ken (the other fly guy on the lake) and he had about the same success as we had.  Overall the fishing was not great (brook trout are fickle beasts) but it was well worth the trip up there. 
                            Thanks Gary for the report, I'm busy buildin a deck.