So after yesterday's success, today JonB was going back to the river, and I said hell with that. I went straight to Lake Bosworth to practice what I'd learned the day before. I was embarrassingly late ... wasn't fishing till 8 am.

I was determined to catch a cutthroat, and this time I brought a fish finder that actually sees something besides the bottom. As expected, the lake was crawling with fish. Unfortunately, I was getting returns everywhere from 5 feet down, all the way to the bottom, at every depth. There is no way to know what is really going on in this lake, other than that it is swarming with fish.

I tried and tried and TRIED and tried to catch something deep. I wasted a ton of time on that project. All the way down to the bottom. In the end, I got zero bites deep. Another thing that wasted a ton of time was being a horrible fisherman. I lost the first 2 hookups by trying to hoist them into the boat instead of net them, and then lost another one less than 5 feet from the boat later. They bite pretty lightly anyway, so to catch a limit I probably had 20 bites, 3 hookups lost at the boat, a couple more than only stayed on a few seconds. I should have only been out there half the time. But in the end I got it done.

I realized something interesting today. The risers are rainbows, but the jumpers are the kokanee. I always thought kokanee stayed deep, but in this lake they are launching themselves up to at least 3 feet out of the water not just with regularity, but constantly. It's neat to watch really. Other than for the fact that not a single one jumped into my boat!!

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