Wrinkled Hand Camp

RGINN

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Rained all afternoon and half the night, so my hands looked like prunes; but I stayed dry over all. Went over southwest of Leadville to Halfmoon Creek. This is a pay campground that I gladly pay to camp in. Since it's surrounded by national forest land with free camping, it doesn't get much traffic. Tents and RV's all over the place yesterday but I was the only guy in the campground, besides the camp host who is a pretty good old boy up here from east Texas. (Well pretty good except for the Texas part) I encounter more Texans along Halfmoon than most of the other places I go. Him bein from Texas, we were able to converse like normal people do, first about the weather, then about stupid tourist tricks we'd seen, then about fishin. He tipped me off that he was pretty sure that the wildlife dept. had recently stocked Emerald Lake over to the west. So I allowed as to how I would go check that out. Yeah buddy he was right. Limited out (4) in ten minutes on a white Rooster Tail spinner. Switched over to a barbless version and did some catch and release of about 15 more. No lunkers, and the biggest one was about 14 inches. In spite of the rain, 65 in the day and only a low of 44 at night, which surprised me for this part of the country. (I halfway expected the rain to turn off to snow before daylight)
 

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curious kat

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Love the title of your post.:laughing7:...and nice pictures
 

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Nice, Very Nice! :icon_thumleft: Those Rainbow's are perfect eating size! Looks like an awesome place to camp.
 

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Nice catch, cleansing shower and a awesome morning. You sure know how to live!
 

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Nice place! Thanks for the info and beautiful pictures. I've never traveled much and enjoy seeing photos like this.
 

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