“ Walk Softly And Carry A Big Fish”….Anon He spots it, jets forward, and WHAM, he’s on!! I carefully loft a cast so that the microscopic fly alights gently five feet in front of him.
A good-sized one cruises insouciantly in front of me, picking off small bugs on the surface, apparently oblivious to my presence above. I double-time it back to the dam and creep down the rocky slope towards the lake, not wanting to spook the rainbow trout that are rising all along the shoreline. In all my times fishing and camping up here, I have never seen anyone fish this stretch below the lake, hidden in plain sight! I retreat post haste to the mobile fish camp and rig up my fly rod with a tiny #20 black midge dry fly that has done well for me in the lake and the creek. I decide to take a stroll out on the rock-faced earthen dam to see if any fish are rising in the lake….and they are! But even more intriguing, I see dimples on the surface of the water below the spillway, a very short section of Archuleta Creek that flows into Lower Dome Lake. So after a long day of fishing and driving over rough backcountry roads, I Upper Dome LakeĪm lollygagging about and staying close to camp on Upper Dome Lake. The brown trout and brookies were ravenous. Yesterday I drove over the Continental Divide to beautiful Saguache Park and fished the headwaters of Saguache Creek. (See my article titled Day 1 on Archuleta Creek.). Earlier this week I had a delightful day on the lower section of little Archuleta Creek just above where it joins with Cochetopa Creek 20 miles or so southeast of Gunnison.
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