One of my favorite places to fish this time of year is Fish Lake. Some of the best trout fishing of the year can be had at Fish Lake, before the snow gets too deep to launch a boat. The trout are fat and hungry and great eating. The chance of catching a good brown is the best of year in the late fall, too. To catch the trout the tactics are pretty much the same. Just toll one of the Cove’s High Laker Special with a bit of worm on the hook and you’ll do just fine. To catch the browns, though, I change my approach. I look for small bays, log falls or the spring along the lake and cast flies, Rapalas or the Mack’s Lure Promise Keeper to the bank and retrieve. My wife and I have spent a couple of very special evenings in the late fall or winter at Fish Lake. We would just strip out all of the main line on a floating fly line with a Wooly Bugger on the end and slowly troll around. We would constantly get hits, and found that if we just waiting until the reel was screaming, we had better success landing the fish. Scott West at the Cove keeps a couple of pontoon boats in the water until the snow flies, and you can always fish from the dock.