Got a late start and headed east to fish Lost Lake, a favorite of mine for twenty years since high school. Conditions were sunny and windy with the water temp being significantly cooler than some of the other lakes I've been fishing here in the middle of summer. Lost Lake is deep and I was fishing primarily with heavy gold kastmasters and a couple sinking rapalas. The boat "launch" is a wild tangle of logs, broken glass, and a very narrow, primitive ramp that I had to switch to 4x4 to get out of. I would not bring a trailer of any sort. I had to leave my truck a good 30 feet from the shore in order to set up my pontoon. Once on the water the plan was to row into the wind to the far side and then let the wind take me back. I got myself about a hundred yards from the ramp and started getting lines in the water to troll as I rowed across the lake. On the 2nd cast I had a huge hit from a nice holdover rainbow, maybe 2-3 lbs. I could tell it wasn't one of the more recent plants as it wasn't shaped like a football and actually put up a good fight. That woke me up a bit and after I had released the fish I realized that I'd been blown nearly back to where I started. So back to the plan, I got the rapala in the water behind me and started rowing. About halfway across I had another big hit, this time a nicely colored bull trout which was sent back too. On the far end of the lake I managed to anchor in the shallower water that lines the shore up from the creek outlet. I hooked another small fish, this time a brookie, had some lunch and then pulled anchor to let the wind blow me back along the shaded shoreline. Nothing was biting on the drift back, probably due to midday sun pushing everything deeper, but it was a nice day out and I caught 3 species of trout in about an hour of fishing.

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