You can rise early if you wish, but you don't need to worry about anyone beating you to your favorite fishing spot. In fact, you will usually have a lake or connecting stream all to yourself and will seldom, if ever, see anyone except the other lodge guests. Lunches are prepared after breakfast to take with you fishing or to take back to your cabin. Lorna Gerein, the resident chef, served ham, steak, lamb, and prime rib for dinners during my visit. Wine and delicious desserts were also available for dinners.
Breakfast is a bountiful feast, and usually included eggs, pancakes, trout and cereal.
Plenty of coffee was always ready too. Within minutes of anchoring in Shetler lake at the spot the Strands had suggested, Steve and I had become believers. We were anchored in 10 to 15 feet of water and began casting our five weight rods with sink tip lines. On his first cast, after allowing the line to sink, Steve's slow retrieve was halted by a ferocious strike. Instantly, Steve was playing his first wild rainbow.