Instread, it's a series of ponds, spillways, sloughs, toxic ditches and bypasses. However, it is also one of the best places in the state to hook a trophy rainbow or brown trout. When you first glace at the Anaconda Settling Pond System, it might resemble a war-torn landscape. A burm rises here, a pile of rocks sits there. The entire landscape show signs of relocation.
Vegetation grows in some places, in other the earth is bare.
Plus, the ponds attract all variety of waterfowl and shorebirds. And, when the sun sets over the western mountains, the sky lighting up in crimson slashes, this color reflected onto a tranquil surface, you may even call the ponds beautiful. It helps if a huge trout is bending your rod like a green twig. The first time I visited the ponds, there are six in all, I launched my float tube on the most famous one - the Hog Hole. I didn't catch a fish that evening, but I witnessed a rise like I had never seen.