We (myself, Matt (Pikie), Hood, Beerman, ADK Mike, and a few others) headed out on Thursday morning for a trip into the Adirondack backcountry, in search of brookies and other trout. What a time we had!! To get to our destionation, we had to put into one pond, paddle a couple miles, then portage our gear .7 miles to our destination...Then, we had to turn around and go back for our canoes. Let me tell you, it sounds much easier than it really was!!
Here's a few members of our group getting ready to make the first paddle.
So we get camp setup, and we just HAVE to get on the water. Matt and I set out and soon enough, we're into fish. He gets the first one, and a few minutes later I'm into my first fish of the trip.
Here's Matt with his, already on the stringer, and mine in the other hand.
Matt catches another one, so we paddle back to camp to tell everyone that they're hitting good. We get back out and catch a few more, then decide to explore the rest of the pond. Only stretch of shoreline is producing ANYTHING...turns out that's where all the fish were! We went fishless for a while, and all of a sudden we were doubled up.
Matt landed his pretty quickly.
Mine, however, was pulling drag on me repeatedly...I didn't even see it for a while, so I thougth it was a real hog. Turned out to be nothing particularly special, just a fat, strong fish.
I didn't know whether to give you the looking away shot, or the goofy eye's closed shot...I gave you this one. Blame it on Matt...
Our first day stringer...
The next day we got out and caught a TON of fish. However, I didn't take many pictures...the fishing was too good!
Matt got into one of the better brookies of the trip pretty early.
That evening, Matt and Mike got into a few on the fly rods.
Harry and Dom came back from their splake expedition with these awesome splake...the meat was so orange, and equally delicious!
There was a better picture, but I thought this one was pretty funny...
Harry, PM me and I'll send you the better one.
It was a great trip, and I can't thank Matt enough for inviting us...I'm just looking forward to it next year!!
-Zach
