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Old 07-02-2023, 11:25 AM   #1
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Another 2 weeks in Paradise...

Just finished another 2 weeks in God's country at Silver Lake...
The trip started off Cold and WINDY with Lots of water in the lake...The lake level was pretty maxed out and almost touching the asphalt...in some spots it was seeping up on the other side of the road through the water table...
Did I say it was COLD AND WINDY...LOL...!!!
The winds were gusting so High that I had to add extra ropes to each corner of the tent and popup and a few center pole supports too...
Mother Nature was really showing her strength...the lake was totally unfishable!
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Old 07-02-2023, 11:48 AM   #2
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Flowers

All this water. and runoff has made for a wonderful natural floral bouquet...
That's a Very Full Grant Lake in the background...
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Old 07-02-2023, 11:50 AM   #3
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Iris...

The Iris are in full bloom around the campsite...
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Old 07-02-2023, 12:02 PM   #4
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clouds...

The windstorm created some beautiful cloud formations...
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Old 07-02-2023, 12:07 PM   #5
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Birds...

Lots of Red breasted Robins, Yellow Tanagers, lots of arguments among the nesting Black Birds, beautiful little Chikadees, and Blue Jays and a few woodpeckers too...
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Old 07-02-2023, 12:09 PM   #6
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Bald Eagle...

The Bald Eagle seems to be the new resident since I only saw the Osprey once this trip...
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Old 07-02-2023, 12:11 PM   #7
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more flowers

Lupin...
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Old 07-02-2023, 12:16 PM   #8
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Convict...

We fished Convict lake one morning for another good batch of trout across the lake at the many streams flowing into the lake...nothing big this time but lots of fun as usual...
All my fish were on the 1/32 Hookups but a group of guys were wailing on em with night crawlers...
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Old 07-02-2023, 12:18 PM   #9
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Deer...

The many Deer are so friendly in the campground...
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Old 07-02-2023, 12:21 PM   #10
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mo deer...

This spotted little one is only a couple of weeks old...
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Crawdads...

The water was 46 degrees at the beginning of the trip and warmed to 52 on the surface by the end of the trip so the crawdad crawl still hasn't taken off yet...but we did get enough big ones for a good ole Louisiana style Boil...
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Crawfish boil...with artichokes..
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Old 07-02-2023, 12:30 PM   #13
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Horsetail Falls...

I lived up here 42 years ago and I've been coming up here fo 50 years...and I've never seen Horsetail Falls go this ballistic...this next week is forecast to be in the 80's...the runoff from the snow melt should be incredible...
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Old 07-02-2023, 12:31 PM   #14
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another angle

here's another angle on the falls...LOL...it came out sideways...
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Reflection of Carson Peak...

reflection of Carson Peak...
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Old 07-02-2023, 12:59 PM   #16
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Fishing...

Fishing was Good...not Great...but Good...
As usual I fished the Hookup Baits for 80% of the time in the kayaks...we had days with 4 to 20+ fish/day and only a couple of really slow days...at the end of the trip the water calmed down to really beautiful conditions each evening...so we ate dinner early so we could out for the evening glass off

I also used the lead core line setup and the down rigger for some mid day trolling at 25' to 35'. The Tasmanian devil produced 4 beautiful Browns one day with two of em at 16"......the split back Rapalla or Thomas Boyant didn't even get hit for me this trip...

The 1/32 Black Gold with the crawdad sauce was the go-to for me for most of the fish...although I used the yellow and white a few times on the dead stick...we ended up the trip using the 1/16 Chub color for the last few days of the trip and it really paid off... the last fish of the trip was this 5.8 pound beauty...probably a "holdover" with it's perfect fins and tail...
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Old 07-02-2023, 06:19 PM   #17
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Beautiful pics!
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Old 07-02-2023, 06:46 PM   #18
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Fucking amazing. I’m thinking that I might do a quick turnaround just to see the waterfalls.
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Love that place.
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What a spread

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