A smogasbord of fish,But not all you can eat.

This week Andy and I headed over to a lake near Arnold California.

The lake has been on our list of places to fish for sometime now. The lake has been sort of mystery to us . We first heard about it from an EMT that we met at one of our favorite lakes in Amador county. The EMT claimed there were giant rainbows and brown trout in the lake, he also claimed that it was not planted by DFG and nobody ever fished there. This was our kind of lake.  When I first looked for it on the maps that I had, it was not there. I can only guess that it is a relatively new lake and my maps are older, as a matter of fact it only shows up on the satellite version of Google earth and not the map or terrain version.

We finally pinpointed its location and headed out. After a couple of hours of windy dirt roads we found our destination. The lake was eerie and kind of creeped me out. We put in and started fishing some really good looking water. We fished for a couple of hours switching flies, lines, depths retrieves and anything else we thought could bring up a fish. after a few hours Andy caught a small rainbow trout. We both decided it wasn't going to happen and we needed to find a back up lake.

I remembered reading about a small lake in the white pines area that had a few trout and maybe some small bass.

We headed out for our back up lake and on the way there I noticed a small brewery called Snowshoe . I told Andy no matter what happens with the rest of our day, everything would be just fine.

We put in the lake at a small launch ramp across from the dam . Andy was into to some small planter rainbows right away.

We weren't catching the big fish we had hope for from our first lake, but at least we were catching fish. We continued to catch small bass, bluegill, crappie, rainbow trout and I even managed one small but chunky brown trout. We had caught a smorgasbord of fish.

It was getting late and I was ready for a cold beer. We headed over to the brewery. As soon as we walked in the staff was very tentative towards us and I knew it was going to be good service and a fun time. We both had the Double Mash Cutthroat. We both loved it and decided it was probably the best beer we had ever drank. (and we have drank a lot of beer). The food was equally as good and our waitress even bought us an order of delicious hot wings . We are now looking for more lakes in that area to fish, just so we can go to the brewery.