Friday was my last day of work for the Colorado Division of Wildlife; and on that day I was able to attend a "meeting" on Aldrich Lake. It was actually a fishing outing for the CDOW people to attend. It was a perfect day for it, not a cloud in the sky, and I was able to fish all day without having to wear a jacket. I actually got a pretty good sunburn on my face. To get to this lake, we had to snowmobile in a couple of miles, which was fun for me because I don't get to do that often. Aldrich Lake is actually three lakes grouped as one. We started on the middle lake, and a couple people caught some small rainbow trout. I had a few bumps, but it was pretty slow. After a while, six of us headed up to the upper lake, which was a mistake. We sat up there for over an hour and not one person had a bite. So as a last ditch effort we headed down to the lower lake. I started fishing with the group in eight feet of water, and again, nobody was catching anything. So I decided to move out into a little deeper water, and although it was still slow, I was able to catch a couple of 15 inch splake (which I guess are lake trout/brook trout hybrid). Then, slowly a few other people migrated to where I was and they caught a few fish also. Like I said, overall fishing was slow, but it was definitely a great way to spend the last day on the job.
I also wanted to mention that last weekend Julie and I went snowshoeing (which we seem to do every weekend these days). We headed up North Walton Peak; which ended up being about six miles round trip. It was a really great view from up there. We could see most of North Park, and a couple of different mountain ranges off in the distance. I would post a picture, but of course we forgot the camera. Oh well, it won't be last time we'll see snow peaked mountains.
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