Baker's Dozen plus Eleven

Yesterday, I went back to Big Meadows with Power Bait in my jacket pocket and my usual set of Panther Martin lures -- with my thoughts on this spot I passed by on Sunday where I saw some folks pulling in some 15 or 16 inch trout.  I headed there and passed a couple anglers on the way who didn't have much to claim they had caught (didn't see any trout on stringers either as I passed).

I settled into a spot near where I had recalled seeing some being caught on Sunday and within a few minutes of casting the first Power Bait offering, I had a decent size trout hooked and soon on the stringer as well.  Next two casts produced smaller fish after only a few minutes of waiting but, I released them.  Missed a couple and caught two more small ones that I again released before I decided to head farther around the lake to some boulders I had fished and caught a couple this past Sunday.  I caught seven more trout on the Power Bait and kept a couple of those -- the last one costing me my tiny treble hook.  So I switched to the other pole with the Panther Martin lure on it and continued to catch another dozen trout and released all but, the fourth keeper for my limit.

Of course, the biggest one got away while I fished with the lure -- maybe a sixteen inch Brook trout that did his "Dance for Life" and spit the lure about six feet from shore.  Still a great day of fishing.