Show The Sp CO E Something Fishy Going Goh On Onby by Dan this week we k is j the familiar f f lf r I r The subject under observation like inu thIs h n name mune Websters Webster's s 's definition goes something 0 of f entirely in water ai any y popular use any animal that lives Jives lly aquatic vertebrates generallY gen r various completely class pisces pisces having nav g regarded as comprising the group or gills commonly fins and typically an elongated body oay body invited ona on ona HERE IN THE MIDST of fishing season I was on Lake Basin and being a fishing trip to an area called Four to expect what I wasn't sure what almost as stranger to the or of Wyo the mountains last was in experience My fishing I just could t c t Ing and being a former native Wyomingite wIth It u. u imagine that I would ever find fishing to compare well give it the old college ge BUT I THOUGHT I might as mile hike nine hIke for the nine try and so I began making preparations that ahead My feet began to ache already Lavore and Keith Tullis With fellow hikers and fishermen we prepared our packs about 35 pounds and which felt feU like later and stayed at Mirror Lake the first night we That same night we planned a early start the next morning were talking to the forest ranger and he estimated our trip and in the back of 01 would take about seven hours of hiking here at Mirror mind not fish my came this thought Why Lake hill and highland trail on our So the way we went over way to the Four lakes Jakes Dean Dale DaJe Daynes and Jean guess full fun of and enthusiasm In fact they ran out of Ds D's all aU energy it was my f first good hiking trip since the army MY ONLY PROBLEM PRO LEI 1 was trying to keep up with pace pacesetter pacesetter pacesetter setter La Vore who walked as fast as a horse and his his' brother Keith who stands 67 tall taU and takes one step to my two i After a two hour hike we came come to a sign that said 4 lakes 2 miles and what a morale builder as we were expecting at least 5 miles ahead of us WE ARRIVED at nt the entrance of 4 1 lakes basin made camp between Dale DaJe and Dayne lake Jake and out came the fishing poles This proved to be a fishing delight and we caught our limit of cut throat in just a short time So into the frying pan and nothing was any better outside of oi soaking my aching feet in the lake I might mention the mosquitoes never seemed to rest and so on went another coat of repellant WHAT A COUNTRY a couple of deer came strolling through camp without a look to right or left I wonder where they were hiding when I was deer hunting last fall faU I went ahead and took a coupie couple shots at them with my camera After two days of good fishing weather sure luck Juck having all nU blue sky and trout dinners 3 miles a day and then back again to civilization and home cooked meals again INCIDENTALLY WE decided the forest ranger thought we were city slickers must have been the hats we had on it took us only enly three hours to hike back to Mirror Lake instead stead of the predicted seven hours But to top it all aH off an incident on the way back almost proved demoralizing Here were were we three hearty woodmen roughing it so we thought on the trail about half way back when over the hill hm coming toward us came seven high school schoolgirls schoolgirls girls in their sneakers ers and with only a noon snack Where were they headed To Four Lakes with their cameras to take pictures Can you imagine hiking nine miles to take 1 pictures eat lunch and then hiking another nine miles mites back backall backall all aU in n one day WELL THANK goodness for the limit of trout in our pack and now pleasant memories until next you |