Arrived at Bridgeport State Park on Sunday afternoon. Beautiful park well maintained, clean restrooms, nice shade tree's with a great lawn. Ranger Scott and his wife run a first class operation. What I really liked was that it wasn't a party park, at 10PM you could here a pin drop. Which is great if your fishing. The boat ramp and dock's are in great shape, and for a small fee you can moor your boat there. You can get fuel and munchies at the Texaco/Food Mart across the bridge at the entrance to the city of Bridgeport, about a mile and a half from the campground. If you had forgotten some fishing gear stop in at the hardware store in town, good folk's there. Need a few more grocery items, your in luck there is a small groceries store in town. Now lets talk about fishing, took us about 3 day's to figure out the lake. It's huge, 50 miles long.

Talked to a fellow there that gave me the best advice ever. " These are trout, fish this lake the way you would fish your home lake".

Took his advice and on day 4 started working the lake in an "S" pattern 20'-40'. Just kept working this all up and down the lake and much to my surprise it worked, caught some Triploids in the 6-7lb range and what some folk's were calling natives in the 3-5lb range.

Green and Black seemed to be the colors of choice for us, in either a fly or hardware, used both thru out the next few day's. Can't say that we caught them in any one area, but pretty much all over the lake. We ended up taking 5 trout home for table fare and the smoker. If you have never fished this lake, I would recommend that you give it a try. Had a great time and intend on returning. For you Walleye buffs we seen quite a few of them caught there to. Perch in some spot's seemed pretty good, I know some folk's were targeting them for dinner.

I know that a lot of folk's encourage you not to keep every trout you catch, and I'd have to agree with them. Remember all these Triploids do is get bigger. Anyway it was a great vacation. Take Care.

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