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Trilby Trip Day 3
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Day 3 August 26th
After some high mountain huckleberry pancakes, we decided to take a chance and walk back up the trail to a lake called Spread Point Lake. It was supposedly a big lake on the chain but had no marked trail on the map. We thought that a lake that size should hold a fish and since there was no marked trail, there would have been fewer people fishing it.
Five miles later, we found ourselves looking down on it and started our climb down. The map was right and the trail was non existent. It was extremely bluffy, with blow down after another, and the entire hill side was one big bog. It took us a good half an hour to walk a quarter mile. Once we were there though, we found a dandy camp site, and what was better, fish were everywhere.
We had already gotten plenty of footage so I got the pole and caught a few for dinner. We fished around and discovered that the lake was full of fish and they were all smaller, 8-10 inches. Classic signs of an over populated Lake. Even so, we had a great time catching and releasing fish out of Spread Point Lake.
The following day we navigated our way up that crazy hillside and hiked to the car. It was an awesome trip with excellent scenery, perfect weather, and plenty of superior fishing.