The lake is refilling nicely. Up about 15" in the last week.
The rest of this is normally under about 6' to 7' of water.
The large hole is where I got a couple of hits and saw the otter grab one yesterday. About 4.5' of my walking stave is visible in the picture to give you a size reference. You can see that this is dumping directly into the main body of the lake. If I could have got my fly up under the ice, I might have had better luck.
The little stream heads up to another spring where I got a hit, but nothing serious. Behind that is a marshy area that is frequented by moose quite a bit. There must be more springs in there, but I didn't go nosing around much.
The other little hole is one of the other springs that feed the lake. You can see where the water bubbles up right in the center of the circle. There is no inlet, so to speak. The lake is fed by underwater springs and spring runoff from the immediate slopes only. Just walking around the lake bed, I spotted 6 springs.
It has been snowing with the sun shining off and on since I got back to the cabin.
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