In 1970, I caught a 27" rainbow out of Timonthy Lake in the Oregon Cascades with the clear bubble method. The fly was a royal coachman bucktail. Slow retreive. I was using 4 lb mono, the fish put up a pretty good fight for over 1/2 hour. Brought a lot of "lookers" to the beach that beautiful sunny summer day. I remember this one guy running up and down the shorline with one of those little aluminum nets yelling "I'll net it for you!!". I asked him to stay away, my wife waded into the water and scooped it up on to the shore. One of my fondest fishing memories. I suppose a lot of "so called" rules were broken that day? Once I became comfortable with the fly rod, my whole outlook on trout fishing changed, most likely for the better.
Regarding the Trivia question of Lake Louise's previous, other name.
Lake Louise first became known to the outside world on July 24th, 1882 when Tom Wilson, an explorer and route finder for the Canadian Pacific Railway (inevitably) was led there by a member of the Stony Indian band whose description of "the lake of little fishes" intrigued him. (But don't believe the "lake of little fishes story) At the time, Tom Wilson was engaged to be married to a certain Miss Thelma Mae Snodgrass. Due to an unfortunate accident in Thelma Mae's hometown of Turkey Nob, Kentucky, Themla Mae was run down by a runnaway moonshine wagon and died several days later. When Tom returned to Kentucky for the funeral, he met an fell in love with Thelma's younger sister, Louise. So instead of lake Thelma Mae, as they say...the rest is history.
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