MOUNTAIN LAKE JULY 2 - 6

My Wife and myself spent 4 days camping at one of my favorite lakes in Northwestern Ontario. MOUNTAIN LAKE, we started caming there about 9 years ago and we try to get up there at least once a year. The Lake has Smallmouth Bass and Lake Trout, the Lakers are small but very tasty. This year we had our three dogs with us and with them being Huskies we had to camp out on the island, they don't like to stick around if we camp on the main land. The fishing this year was a bit slower than usual, hard to catch the lakers and hard to find any decent sized Smallies. The May flies were in full hatch and the fish along the shores and in the bays were surfacing all day and night gobbling them up, so I spent a lot of my time wading along the island with my fly rod. The water in Mountain Lake stays cold all year as it is a spring fed lake that gets as deep as 214 feet, but that didn't stop me from grabbing my googles and snorkel for some swimming with the fish. Mountain Lake has crystal clear water and you can see through the water quite easily, so I like to go snorkeling for snagged lures and just to hang out with the fish and see where the like to hide. The Island that we camped on was nicely set up for camping, perfect flat surfaces for pitching the tent and lots of room the move around, the one side of the Island was deep enough to jump off the rocks to go for a swim, and the other side had a nice rock bar for wading and Fly Fishing. Unfortunately I didn't get too many pictures of fish from this trip, most were too small to take pictures of, but I did get a cool picture of a Cow and Calf Moose swimming across the lake on our way home.