Felt sick, played hooky. Name of the game, decided to go for a drive, and since I had my fly rod in the back, I decided a drive to some local lake would be the way to go. I knew that as this lake has a creek that tributes the sky, it was either stocked, or still had wild fish in it. fished for only about half an hour cos I had to get home early, and caught a nice, 14-15 inch cutt. It was extremely dark, indicative of previous spawning. There were houses all around the lake, which detracted from the beauty element of it, but I did enjoy being able to catch such a beautiful healthy and hopefully successfully spawning trout. I caught it on a floating dragonfly nymph imitation on a sinking line, for those of you who are confused as to why the hell I would use a floating fly on a sinking line, it is to allow the fly to buoy up over weeks or logs, while still remaining close to the bottom. This very closely imitates the movement of a really dragonfly nymph. Normally I wouldn't give up information about this lake, but since I don't intend to go back (the surroundings and proximity to crackerville doesn't do it for me) I'll letcha know where it is on your honor that you release everything. On 522 heading northbound to Monroe, turn off on echo lake road, you'll see a sign about a mile in with a turnoff to the left that says lost lake. That's it, keep going in and you'll see it, just keep your eyes straight ahead. For those of you who don't normally use flies, give em a try here, because I know they work well. Lots of fish keying in on chironomid emergers (the little floaty black ones). The fish I caught had a throat full of em, and he's still in there, unless some worm soakin hilly billy thought a fish that old and spawned out would taste good with some wonder bread and cheese whiz. good luck folks, see ya later ~Stephen

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