Research on Smith River area

   After pouring over the Smith River area in my map book, I found I was right about there being a lot of creeks and tributaries, hundreds of them. However, they do not open for trout until May 24th, and I do not feel prepared to tackle the main body of the Smith. It is open for salmon and steelhead, but I have an idea it will be hard to fish from shore, and beyond simple to float. Another time perhaps.
   Lakes in this zone are open year round, with few special regulations, but here's the funny part... there are none from the Umpqua in the South, to the Siuslaw in the North, West of Eugene all the way until you get to Siltcoos and Tahknich Lakes on the coast. I am shocked, when I opened my map book to the area, I expected it to be peppered with little mountain lakes, NOTHING!!!  
   Nothing on my map, except one tiny blob of blue no bigger than a grain of rice, Esmond Lake. Its not listed in the ODFW special regulations, appears to have an access road that leads to it, and I have never heard of it or been there before. This could be interesting, more research is needed.....