Thousand Lakes Mountain

On Saturday, we left for the Thousand Lakes Mountain for a day of fishing. I decided to check out the North side. Our turn off was along Highway 72 after Forsyth Reservoir. We took our time heading up the canyon. The road was a graded dirt road, not bad. Once on top the road splits, the road South takes you to the Elkhorn Campground and a few lakes. We took the North road towards Morrell Pond. Shortly after there is a good views of Cathedral Valley down below.

The first lake we stopped at was Morrell Pond. First thing was to find a nearby geocache, then we fished. A few casts in and I caught the first fish, a small Rainbow Trout. Seemed like every fourth cast another small Rainbow would grab a hold. I changed spots and caught a bigger, but not much, Cutthroat Trout. We fished for a while then had lunch, hot dogs roasted over the fire.

We left Morrell and continued along the road, we passed a few more ponds that looked like they held no fish. The road ends and a short hike to Meeks Lake. We stopped at one pond that we thought was Floating Island Lake. We caught a few small Cuthroats out of it.

A short hike to the East was Meeks Lake. I got down there and immediately had a good size fish chase my lure. It looked to be a Brook Trout. I had one other hit but was not able to bring any to shore.

We stayed and fished for a while before giving up and heading out. We passed a few other people that looked to be deer hunters. After getting down there was still plenty of daylight left so we decided to fish Forsyth Reservoir. I was able to reel in a small Tiger Trout. Shortly after there was gunshot from the far hillside and a big splash in the middle of the lake in front of me. Figured someone may have missed and the bullet went into the lake or something. But soon there were two more shots into the lake. Figured some hillbillies were target practicing into the lake so we got out of there in a hurry. Can’t believe they would shot from on top of the hill into the lake with people on the other side. We weren’t the only people, there were three other groups.

It was late enough so we just headed home for some late night pizza.

A kml file of my GPS log.

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