Where we used to go hunting there is a small resevoir, fed by the mountain creeks and controlled by a dam system. It gets stocked with 8-12" trout from the hatcheries, and sometimes they put in "brood trout". Large adult fish that have been used for breeding. In late Sept./early Oct. the resevoir is down from supplying irrigation to the surrounding area. Goes from about a 1/2 mile wide down to about 100 yds across.
Opening day of deer season is always a Sat. The folks and my brother would get there on Wed. or Thu. but I always had to work and would get there Sat. PM. I think I hit one opening morning in the 20 + years we hunted there.
One year, as I'm tooling up to our usual campsite late Sat. afternoon, My brother and my dad meet me at the road. "Where ya been? It's all over. We're going home." Then my dad points at the meat pole and there are 2 bucks hanging. And a 34" rainbow. Dad caught the fish Fri. night and they both got their buck the next morning. Took me 5 days to run into a legal buck.
They didn't leave and the fish was ok. I'd rather have a nice 14" fresh out of the water with lemon, butter, onion, salt and pepper wrapped in foil and in the coals. Now THAT'S the breakfast of champions.
