Re: Lake Margaret

[Paul E. Neel]

Fished Margaret yesterday morning from 6am to 7:45am. Not the best I've seen there, but not bad. When the wind is down I throw out drys as there is pretty decent activity on the surface. When the wind riff'ed the water went to the other rod which had on it a Stillwater line. After trying the old tried and trues with limited success settled on a dragon nymph (yes the drunk red-eyed one) and nailed fish with every cast. Three very short strips and then a 2 second pause. Would have stayed longer but work and nature were calling.

For the most part, these guys were taking in the whole fly. Location? Southeast corner of the lake. The best part came on the second fish. Fifteen feet in front of me and a little to the left was a trout floating belly-up, in all probability a C&R casualty form the evening before. As I was reaching for my net a there was a loud WOSH and SLAP (sp?) as a bald eagle lifted the fish out of the water for breakfast. Very cool.

Fine early morning.

Paul Neel

At 09:01 AM 5/19/00 -0700, you wrote:
>Fished Lake Margaret for about 2-1/2 hours last evening (yep, during
>the monsoon!) There were a couple of inflatables on the water when I
>got there and some bank fishermen as well. They said the fishing was
>slow since the lake hadn't been stocked this year.
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>Picked up a single small cutthroat with my 3-wt. on a red Carey
>Special near one of the inlets on the northeast side. Got a couple
>more small hits that got off before I could get 'em landed. I decided
>to head back but noticed a couple fish rising nearby. Cast to them
>and got a surprisingly solid grab on the third or fourth try.
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>No further action and it was raining hard, so I finally gave up and
>decided to troll while rowing back. No sooner started out when my rod
>took a huge dip and the reel started singing. Ended up with a fat 15"
>holdover cutt and a smile on my face for the soggy drive home.
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>Kent Lufkin
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>>Fished Lake Margaret northeast of Duvall on Thursday evening from 6 to
>>8:30pm. Torrential downpour virtually the entire time but had the whole lake
>>to myself. Fished were very hungry. Caught between 15 and 20 in the 12 inch
>>range. All caught trolling slowly with a size 12, red carrey's special.
>>Fished the opposite end of the lake from the parking lot.
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>>Jeff
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