“…we decided to take the camper out for a shake-down trip just after the Memorial Day holiday to avoid the crowded highway, and we fished a lake we hadn’t tried for several years. Kelly Lake, near Peterson and Watson lakes off the Sterling Highway south of Cooper Landing, made for a nice free camping spot right on the lake side for easy kayaking and fishing. I caught this mini-Rainbow on our Swiss friends tried & true “Egg Surfing” technique. Size doesn’t matter nearly as much as technical success–at least that’s what I told myself after taking this “usie” with mini-me, not as easy to do as you float on a lake in a kayak if you like to capture the mountain background and keep the horizon level!  Looks bigger upside down don’t you think?!”

Kelly Lake Rainbow

Floating Time

On the Lake

Kayak Cooper