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| Waldens Lake and Abajo Mountains, December 17. |
December 17 was my last day of trout fishing for the year. I caught my limit of four rainbow trout as usual, despite the cold and bitter wind. It was beautiful in the high country sunshine at 7,000 feet despite the wind.
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| Rainbow Trout, the last catch. |
The next day a deep freeze moved into southeast Utah. A couple inches of snow, no big deal. But then low temperatures in the single digits (F.). And perhaps more importantly after the storm moved east into Colorado, the wind died. For days. Calm, no real breeze stronger than about 5 MPH. Which meant that there was no longer any strong wave action on the lake to keep busting up the thin shelf ice along the shoreline.
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| Abajo Mountains panorama on the last day of trout fishing. |
I knew it was coming sometime. That's why I was out there fishing every day. Because each day could be the last of the season.
This day turned out to be the day.
© Copyright 2016 Stephen J. Krieg
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