Greyling trip

[JeepNut]

Last Friday my nephew wanted to go for a fishing trip and wanted to go for a hike. I decided to go try an area I hadn't been to so we went in search of greyling. I decided to hike in to Fish Lake, Sand Lake and Round Lake. I dug through the topo maps but couldn't find the right one so I went online and found some maps and reports. Several reports talked of a loop on the trail but I didn't exactly know where the loop was. On our hike up Dry Fork we came to a river crossing and a fork in the trail. They were letting out a bunch of water from the lakes and the river was very high. I figured that the fork in the trail must be the loop so we took the left fork that followed the river. Unfortunately after a mile or more and a lot of elevation gain the trail vanished. We didn't feel like back tracking and bushwhacked through the woods following the stream. We eventually made it to Fish Lake after adding a few extra miles to the journey. The greyling were taking black ants off the surface so I tied on an ant pattern fly and the fun began. On my first two casts I got three bites and two fish. I have no idea how many we caught but it was a lot. Around lunch time it slowed a bit so I went in search of the real trail. Once I found it we went down to Sand Lake. At Sand we caught fish almost every cast but they were smaller. We then headed to Round lake in the afternoon. At Round we caught bigger greyling but the action was slower. From Round we headed down the trail that we should have come up and it was very rocky and steep. At the river crossing where we got off track we were going to have to take off our boots and wade across since the water was quite deep. However there was a cow moose and her calf 15 feet off of the trail and I didn't want to try to outrun a moose bare footed so we bushwacked it down the other side of the stream until I found a log across the stream. So the trip was a big success even though we logged about 11.5 miles instead of 9. The one advantage of the wrong way is that it isn't as steep. So if you want some greyling these lakes are a good bet.
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