My First Laker

[Bruce Litton]

Tried to include photo, know you guys like to see the fish, but upload failed; I cropped the image, tried again, failed, tried to access the image from my blog: this wouldn't work. Anyhow, if you want to see my first laker, real simple: Google Litton's Fishing Lines & it's there on the first page.

For 10 years more than any other fish besides Spanish mackerel until 2010 when I caught some, I've wanted to catch a laker. This one fought harder than its three pounds or so suggested, but still a nice fish. Maybe it was three and a half.

Wind hurled out of the north with gusts as high as 40; Round Valley was snow-shot bright with ice over it, although the reservoir's ice broke up since yesterday, just some left in the pocket where the ranger boat sits in season. A great, zesty day to be out open water fishing. Mike showed up, "Bruce, your rod bounced, is that the wind.?" "That's not wind."