Little Salmon Lake-Adirondack Mountains
Image via Wikipedia We just returned from a three week trip to the Adirondack Mountains. One of the things we did while there was take a three day paddle from Little Tupper Lake to Lake Lila . The route taken involves a chain of lakes and interconnected drainages. Many of these little lakes have some nice fishing opportunities. Here, David has on one of the better smallmouth bass he caught on this excursion. It went around 16". One interesting and sad aspect to the fishing here was that in a couple of the lakes there were supposed to be heritage strain brook trout only. As the story goes, when the state land that this wilderness is located upon was sold to the state, for reasons not clear to me, someone "salted" Little Tupper with smallmouth bass. The less pshychotic rationale for such an act would be to create some local smallmouth fishing opportunities. This seems unlikely as there are ample smallie streams and lakes across the Adirondacks. It is likely t...