Took Guests Out to Some OFC Lakes

Saturday morning I took a friend, his two boys, and his brother in-law out fishing. We started out at Margaret Lake and Pond. The boys were fishing with PowerBait and bobber from the fishing dock on the North side of the lake. They got lots of bites, but form where I was standing it looked like they had too much PowerBait on the hook. It was a pretty good-sized gob of sparkly chartreuse and I think the hook point was having a hard time getting through that bait to ever hook a fish. I don't remember the brother-in-law's name.....I will just call him "the guy" in this post. They guy and I were fishing flies in the NE corner of Margaret Lake. I gave him a size 8 olive flash bunny bugger and I fished the same, but mine had a rabbit strip tail. I was taking my time getting ready, pretty content to watch everyone else for a while at least. He had four hits within three feet of shore in as many casts, but couldn't hook the fish. He was getting frustrated. I couldn't stand just watching any longer. Besides, I wanted to show him how to "get it done". First cast and a 13 inch rainbow. On the next cast he finally hooked one and instead of trying to play the fish he turned and ran away from the lake, dragging a 13 inch rainbow behind him. Just as the fish cleared the water, the hook pulled out and he pounced on the fish. We had a good laugh and the fish was successfully released. I told him when he backs away from the lake like that he should have a beeper going. Like the garbage truck that intrudes on my neighborhood each week. Everytime it backs up.....beep......beep......beep....beep.

I managed to catch two fish and he had the one he winched out. We eventually headed over to Big Tree / Little Tree Lakes. All five of us fished Little Tree for an hour. We saw enough casually rising fish to keep us fishing, but no follows or hookups. I had been fishing flies the entire time, but now I switched over to a silver bladeed, yellow-bodied Panther Martin Spinner and crossed over to Big Tree Lake at the fishing dock adjacent to Little Tree Lake. Two casts in the area of the dead trees to the left of the dock yielded twin twenty inch rainbows that fought extremely well. One of them jumped clear of the water five times immediately after being hooked. The guy said "I've been to lakes all over Colorado and California and have never seen a lake as beautiful as Little Tree Lake". I agreed and looked around. I am sure a lucky person to be able to fish here and share the experience with others.