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G_Gnome
Trad climber
Cali
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Sep 18, 2017 - 03:57pm PT
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Hmmm, learn something every day. But why are they in the Kings?
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limpingcrab
Trad climber
the middle of CA
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Sep 18, 2017 - 08:45pm PT
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Great info Bob, thanks! That's all new to me.
Hmmm, learn something every day. But why are they in the Kings? Wondering the same thing, I just emailed the Kings River Conservancy, the agency that manages the fishery, and asked if they know of any Splake history.
On a side note, yesterday afternoon I lost the biggest rainbow I've ever had on the line. I swam a class II rapid with my net in my mouth and almost ran out of backing ,to no avail.
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limpingcrab
Trad climber
the middle of CA
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Sep 19, 2017 - 04:56pm PT
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The KRC got back to me and said the hatchery decided to mix things up and stocked some brookies in the lower kings last month. I was told the fish in my picture were dull colored brookies and zooming in on my full resolution versions I do see a few red dots with blue halos.
Dull colored indeed. Kinda weird they put them in there since they're trying to restore the native bows and designating spawning channels and such.
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BG
Trad climber
JTree & Idyllwild
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Sep 19, 2017 - 08:44pm PT
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Mystery solved!
On a side note, yesterday afternoon I lost the biggest rainbow I've ever had on the line. I swam a class II rapid with my net in my mouth and almost ran out of backing ,to no avail.
Now we're talking! The big ones find a way.
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limpingcrab
Trad climber
the middle of CA
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Sep 26, 2017 - 04:44pm PT
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Bump for another question.
My brother and I are taking the wives to a lake in the southern sierra at 9,500ft in mid October. The few times I've fished in alpine lakes were in mid summer and before fly fishing.
Any tips on late season alpine fishing for big rainbows? (legend has it that's what we should expect)
Deep or shallow?
Sinking or floating line?
Streamers, nymphs or dries?
Any sort of advice to help us plan and pack would be very appreciated, if I'm not in a low elevation west side stream I'm out of my element!
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ruppell
climber
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Sep 26, 2017 - 05:04pm PT
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Lucky for you alpine lakes are my bread and butter.
I'll give you a few tips that you can take or leave.
If your dead set on fly action only go streamers. I'd have black, green, and burnt orange handy. Go with a sinking tip line and cast as parallel to shore as you can.
What I always do is sight fish. I won't cast a single time until I see a big fish on a feeding pattern. Once you spot him drop in and cast ahead of where you think he's gonna be going. Slowly strip and if you time it right your streamer and his eyes should meet. Then just gentle taps to entice him to take.
If he bolts or spooks, which they'll do a lot, just stay put. Wait up to 15 minutes and I can almost promise you he'll come back to the same spot. Same goes if he just doesn't take, Watch him closely and he'll turn to deeper water, reverse direction 180 then turn again back into shallower water heading right back towards you.
Keep doing those things and you'll get big fish in any lake.
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BG
Trad climber
JTree & Idyllwild
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Sep 27, 2017 - 05:54pm PT
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Can't wait to get back to Pyramid Lake.
Might be a great season for float tubing, but watch out for that wind!
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ruppell
climber
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Sep 27, 2017 - 06:05pm PT
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Limping
That's a great site. Lake fishing is harder to get on fish then stream fishing. For the most part, streams are easy to read. Lakes are a little harder. Where are you going?
WTF,
When you say the roads are closed are they actually impassable or just blocked off? I've got a lifted 3rd Gen 4Runner that doesn't find much that's "impassable". I've never gotten a chance to fish Pyramid. As long as you don't mind me hucking mini-jigs I'd be game to get after it sometime towards the end of Oct.
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yosemite 5.9
climber
santa cruz
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Sep 27, 2017 - 06:12pm PT
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I have had great results with Tasmanian Devils on trout.
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G_Gnome
Trad climber
Cali
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Sep 28, 2017 - 12:08pm PT
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Guy and I are going to the eastside this weekend. We'll probably fish the San Joaquin on Saturday but not decided on where to go Sunday. I expect to catch many trouts though. Maybe we will remember to take some pics.
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limpingcrab
Trad climber
the middle of CA
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Sep 28, 2017 - 02:12pm PT
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G_gnome
Before I headed into work this morning my wife said she wants to drive to mammoth with the kids tomorrow and come home Sunday. If we do that I'll probably be fishing sat and sun morning from sunrise until the kids wake up and my wife calls me back.
If you guys are up for a super early meetup one of those days let me know, could be fun. No worries either way, I'll be limited by how far I can get from the hotel with only a couple hours to fish.
danieljeffcoach at gmail . come
fivefivenine - 9 oh 1 - fifty seventy
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micronut
Trad climber
Fresno/Clovis, ca
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Sep 28, 2017 - 02:56pm PT
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Just checking in after fishing the lower Kings after work last night. The river is still rippin pretty fast but we had a nice evening out there.
Thanks for the beta Limpingcrab. The coachmen and wullf patterns were working on the surface.
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limpingcrab
Trad climber
the middle of CA
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Sep 30, 2017 - 09:13am PT
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EMERGENCY!
TOURIST NEEDS YOUR HELP!
I'm in mammoth, I have from sunrise until my wife gets tired of kids and calls me home around 9.
Can someone put me on some fish for tomorrow morning?!?!?
I went to the upper Owens today and froze my balls off without a bite.
I'll return the favor if anyone visits the west side, or mail you a gift, or give you a back massage with or without a happy ending depending on my success.
I want to catch something and don't know this area from a hole in the ground!
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tom woods
Gym climber
Bishop, CA
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Sep 30, 2017 - 04:01pm PT
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Worms- can't go wrong. Me and the boy are cooking up some troutcakes right now.
Smartassery aside, we fish lakes mostly because three little kids and moving water equals stressed out dad.
Good luck and consider this post a bump.
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limpingcrab
Trad climber
the middle of CA
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Sep 30, 2017 - 08:41pm PT
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i just threw on a small gold ribbed hares ear and small head head pheasant tail and skipped them along the bottom for an hour. It was tough being that it was my first time there and visibly in the morning is poor. Couldn't tell if it was 1 or 6 ft deep half the time. Caught lots of weeds.
I might just hit up hot creek with all the other tourists in the morning. I'm sure I could pull fish out of mountain streams but I can do that all I want at home and we don't have spring creeks through meadows to try out.
Every time I've been to hot creek I've caught one small trout. We'll see if i can keep the tradition going.
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limpingcrab
Trad climber
the middle of CA
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Sep 30, 2017 - 09:34pm PT
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I went upstream from Benton crossing. Maybe I'll try hot creek for a couple minutes and then go to the inlet at Crowley for a bit. At least it's pretty!
Micronut got ahold of stimbo for me and he's in the Tetons. Suggested the upper San jouquin but I've accepted just getting skunked in a spring creek agin.
Thanks everyone!
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clinker
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, California
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The one that got away.
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guyman
Social climber
Moorpark, CA.
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Limping.... hi, sorry to have missed you and your post.
Gome and I went to the San Jouquin, it would be a waste to go really early I think... we got there about 10a ... it was pretty cool... 52 something like that. About 11a the sun poked up and the Fishing got pretty good... I got my usual dinky sized trouts .... Gome got about 40! Some nice ones too ... he is to fast to take pics.
Sunday we went to Rock Creek, end of the road... and fished around the parking area...more dinks for me.... lot's more for Gome, a lot more.
Finished up at Crooked Creek .... about 2p .... again dinks for me... Gome got one that that was sticking out of his net!
fun times
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G_Gnome
Trad climber
Cali
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Yeah sorry we missed you although we don't get up that early this time of year anyway. Fishing is good if you know where to go. Got a few really quality fish on the San Joaquin, along with a pile of regular sized ones. Rock Creek, which is probably running about 12 cfs has some surprisingly nice 10 inchers. Then the other creek which Guy is never supposed to name yielded a couple nearing the 18 inch mark that were exceedingly robust too. And those come out of a creek that is about 2 feet deep by 3 feet wide.
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