I scurried ahead and quickly found myself looking at a beast of a rainbow, surely 27 inches long and weighing seven or eight pounds, minimum. I had tied on a fur ant at the advice of one of Court's guides, Scott Fraser, and gently put the fly three feet in front of the nonchalant trout. It sped forward and inhaled the bug. Lifting my rod tip, I grimaced as the monstrous thing peeled line off my reel in a startling blur. You might want to go with 5X or so.
Gold Lake offers excellent stalking along a path that skirts the lake.
Float tubes are allowed, but you get far fewer sight-casting opportunities in a float tube than you do from the bank. Look for their forms and shadows both close to the bank near the rocks and vegetation, and up to 50 feet out from shore. A breeze frequently picks up in the afternoon, and this is the time to reach into your terrestrial bag of tricks and pull out a hopper pattern. Get on the downwind side and cast quite a ways out into the chop. You need not impart much action on the fly to get an aggressive strike.