Bagging Lakes & High Country Rainbows

Some folks like to bag peaks, I bag lakes, you can't eat a mountain peak as far as I know. The small feisty trout that call alpine lakes home are about as good of fish as you can eat. These old lakes are not far removed from the glaciers that made them. Ice free a few short months of the year and fed by the annual avalanches that slide from the rocky peaks towering above them. The water is cold and pure, the perfect conditions for growing delicious trout. Feeding mainly on insects and their smaller brethren when the opportunity arises, high country trout have a delicate light coloured flesh perfect for roasting over a fire of spruce twigs. Once…