OUTDOORS & REC
2B — THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD
DETOURED
of snow.
But this was merely a trick
Continued from Page 1B
of the terrain. The south-
The elevation at the pass
facing slopes were indeed
is 5,864 feet — about 100 feet mainly snow-free. But the
lower than the Lost Creek
Lost Creek trail follows a gen-
trailhead — and a couple
erally northern exposure, and
inches of snow still lay on the when we were still a couple
ground, looking as incongru- miles short of the trailhead
ous as a lawn sprinkler in
the snow was again wall-to-
January.
wall, so to speak.
My hope was briefl y re-
I stubbornly insisted that
vived as we climbed into the we at least park at the trail-
mountains west of Granite
head and take an exploratory
and saw only a few patches
hike.
CRAPPIE
Continued from Page 1B
I decided to put on a Lake Fork
Trophy Lures 2¼-inch Sickle Tail Baby
Shad. After 45 minutes I’d caught six
and Koko had only caught a couple. I
told her we were switching hers to a
LFTL jig. It also helps to put a Pautzke
It was a very short hike.
We made it to just past the
place where the trail crosses
the route of the wooden pipe-
line that carried water from
Olive Lake to the Fremont
Powerhouse.
The pipeline — long sec-
tions of which remain intact
— is maybe a tenth of a mile
from the trailhead.
The trail was snow-covered,
and worse yet I could see at
least half a dozen trees lying
across the tread up ahead.
Crappie Fireball on the hook. Right
away she started smoking them too.
Also, usually I’ll put a couple of
splitshots 6 inches above the jig. When
I changed Koko’s jig, I removed her
splitshots. LFTL makes the best plas-
tics. They have slots cut in the tail so
any movement causes the jig to quiver
realistically.
SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 2020
I’m naive but not utterly
incapable of facing reality.
I knew the promise of
breakfast burritos and geo-
caches wouldn’t compensate
for soggy shoes and scratched
legs, so we turned back.
I was disappointed, as I
always am when a hike is
thwarted, but only slightly.
We were still out in the
woods on a fi ne day, and I was
sure we could cobble together
an alternative itinerary.
Our fi rst goal was a pair
Here’s what was working for us:
They were spawning so we’d cast right
up close to the shoreline. We’d lift our
rod tip and then reel in slowly as we let
it back down. You don’t want to reel too
fast.
Crappie are called papermouths for
a reason. They have really soft mouths
that can easily rip out so be gentle when
of geocaches, both of which
were supposed to be near the
pipeline, and less than a mile
back down the road toward
Granite.
We found both caches
— the second rather more
quickly than the fi rst, which
was hidden, in cunning fash-
ion, inside a carabiner lashed
to a juvenile lodgepole pine.
But it was pleasant enough
to tramp around in the snowy
forest, listening to the wind
brushing the limbs and the
working them. Don’t set the hook. Just
lift your rod tip and reel steadily to keep
pressure on. The bigger (heavier) they
are, the more likely they’ll rip off when
hauling them into the boat. So I net all
of mine. I haven’t documented it but I
bet you’ll lose 15% to 20% if you try to
lift them in so that’s why I use a net.
Kolby and I both wondered, did the
gurgle of snowmelt. Max had
a small red fl ying disc — a
potential item to swap for
another in a geocache — and
he giggled with delight as
he watched it tumble along
in the freshet fl owing beside
the road. He was happier still
when, after grudgingly agree-
ing to let me toss the disc into
a culvert, it rushed out the
other end where I plucked it
from the icy water.
See Detoured/Page 8B
fishing get hot because the sun was
going down or had we just missed this
little crappie stronghold when we went
by the first time? I don’t know but I
think we’re going back again near dusk
and try to do a repeat. If you haven’t
been out crappie fishing this spring,
then you better get out fast and get in
on the fun!
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