[Eskimo]

Nice catch.

Saturday afternoon I was standing in the exact spot where you were standing when you took that picture. I was asking a guy sitting there how he did and he said he hadn't caught anything yet.

I was only there for maybe five minutes, but I just felt discouraged and pessimistic about the fishing that day. I looked down at the water, didn't see any fish, packed up my stuff and left.

I hate Round Valley. Over the past eight years or so, I have had a FEW unforgetable days there when the trout were piled up against the shoreline like lemmings eagerly attacking every piece of Power Bait thrown to them, -but mostly I just get skunked.

I dropped by the reservoir a few times this year and haven't even seen a trout, except for a few on the end of other peoples' stringers.