Arrived there in the middle of the afternoon. Two guys were pulling their car topper boat out of the water as I was putting my raft in. They told me that they'd been skunked, despite having been there for a good couple of hours. I was hoping for a sunset rise, though, but it wasn't going to be easy: air was pretty cold. They also mentioned that the opposite side of the lake had a sheet of ice on it. I later took the water temperature, and it was 40 degrees. The lake was its usual reddish tint (I had visited Dolloff during the summer, and no change). Because of this, I decided to tie on a red woolley worm, as well as some other rusty-colored flys. Next time I'll probably use a blood worm or chironomid nymph, like Chan's, worked deep. Fished until dark, and walked away skunked. Water splashed on my raft had turned to ice. I wish I had arrived earlier when it was a little warmer in the day. I've read that a warm spell during a cold stretch and a cold spell during a warm stretch often stirs the fish. I guess I didn't do it right. Dolloff isn't a large lake, and doesn't seem to be that deep. The reader board in the boat launch parking lot said it's about 19 feet at it's deepest. The only problem is figuring out where the contours are steepest.

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