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otisdog
Social climber
Sierra Madre, Ca.
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Aug 30, 2018 - 06:47pm PT
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Can't remember how many times I've "dropped a dime" on the East Walker about the worm fishers....used to feed the warden dinner @ my camp on Murphy Pond.
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BG
Trad climber
JTree & Idyllwild
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Aug 30, 2018 - 08:25pm PT
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A couple more shots from Alaska.....
When I arrived in Alaska I stopped by Mossy's Fly Shop in Anchorage. As I stood in front of the bins of colorful salmon flies, I asked the guy working there "If you had to pick one fly for pink salmon, what would it be?" He didn't hesitate to answer: "Anything pink," he said.
This confirmed what I already knew, and I'd come perepared with boxes full of pink flies I'd tied specifically for targeting pink salmon.
The pink salmon run on the Kenai River is estimated to be in excess of 2 million fish (in even numbered years only), peaking in the month of August in the Lower and Middle Kenai. Once you find the fish it's game on.
Maybe because of its undulating action, pink slamon can't resist a clouser minnow swung and stripped through the current.
During the peak of the run, it's "a fish on every cast" kind of action.
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Brian in SLC
Social climber
Salt Lake City, UT
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Aug 31, 2018 - 08:54am PT
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Look at that beauty humpy!
When I've fished up there (a few years ago by now)...pinks and silvers gobbled the pink tipped purple egg sucking leach. I tried other flies but that one fly worked above all others.
Now the kids are adding rattles to flys and lures?
Good times!
Great photo's, BG...keep 'em coming!
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BG
Trad climber
JTree & Idyllwild
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A few more from Alaska....
Of the five species of Pacific salmon, only the pink salmon is smaller, but pound for pound the sockeye salmon may be the best fighter, rivaling the silver with acrobatic jumps and powerful runs. They basically go berserk when you hook 'em. Unlike pinks that readily attack a lure or fly, they're probably the least likely of all the Pacific salmon to bite a fly.
Fresh from the ocean, a "dime bright" sockeye is at the peak of its physical prowess and its flesh is in prime condition to eat.
Sockeye salmon enter most Alaska Rivers in the month of July after spending a couple years in the ocean. The Kenai River sees two distinct runs of sockeye. The first run, in June, totals about 40,000 fish that make a beeline for the Russian River. The second run, in July and into August, averages about one million fish of primarily main stem Kenai River spawners.
These sockeye are the biggest on the planet, averaging 6 to 10 pounds and up to 15 pounds. I hold the IGFA All-Tackle Length World Record for sockeye with a fish I caught and released from the Upper Kenai River in 2011.
Most sockeye are caught using a "lining" technique, since they swim upstream with their mouths slightly open, where the line is flossed into their mouth, then the hook is set, albeit from the outside in.
The best situation to elicit an actual strike is using a small, sparsely-tied fly dead-drifted in about 3 feet of water with some current. On a good day during the peak of the run you'll see a train of about 20,000 fish swimming upstream past you, so you'll have lots of chances.
After some time in fresh water, the sockeye's body begins to blush red, and its head develops a distinctive green hue.
Once they near their time to spawn, the males in particular make a grotesque transformation, their bodies turning bright red and morphing into a hump-back, their heads turning green, and their jaws sprouting fang-like teeth along with a pronounced snout.
Watch your fingers!
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BG
Trad climber
JTree & Idyllwild
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Nice ones WTF.
What section of the Truckee were you fishing?
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BG
Trad climber
JTree & Idyllwild
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Thanks for the beta. I love the Truckee but haven't fished it that much. Had a great day a few years back above Glenshire Bridge on drys on a rainy day mayfly hatch. My favorite is the canyon section further downstream above Hirschdale.
You ever fish Lake Davis or Frenchman Lake?
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BG
Trad climber
JTree & Idyllwild
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WOW! That's a healthy looking fish. Thanks for sharing that. I just put Lake Lahontan on my to do list.
Can't wait to get back to Pyramid!
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Macronut
Trad climber
Fresno, Ca
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So Micronut tells me this thread is going off and I find it on the bottom of the second page of my browser. Time to get it back on top. He also suggest the wise mages of trout identification frequent this thread. So here it goes guys. Just got back from a phenomenal backcountry trip with my 13 year old and caught these beauties. I was just north of Lake Edison off the JMT at Silver Pass Lake. Please help to identify as to whether they are maybe Golden’s or cutthroat otherwise I’ll just settle with Micropterus dolomieu. Thanks ladies and gents[photo
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micronut
Trad climber
Fresno/Clovis, ca
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Bluegill.
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tom woods
Gym climber
Bishop, CA
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Dudes. That thing isn't even in the water. Major clue.
Obviously it's a small land shark.
Kidding aside, those fish appear to be golden trout.
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Loyd
Big Wall climber
Roseburg, OR
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BC a couple of years ago
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DaveyTree
Trad climber
Fresno
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That is a Golden. They are lighter in color sometimes.
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G_Gnome
Trad climber
Cali
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I'm actually thinking those are golden-rainbow hybrids. Especially the first one.
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BG
Trad climber
JTree & Idyllwild
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I concur with Gnome, although the first one also looks like a cutthroat.
Loyd: WOW, that's a great steelhead! What River?
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Loyd
Big Wall climber
Roseburg, OR
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That steelhead was taken on the Copper river BC. We spent 5 weeks fishin from tide water of the Skeena up to the head waters that year.
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BG
Trad climber
JTree & Idyllwild
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Thanks Loyd....that's one helluva steelhead! Sounds like a dream trip.
Got to get up to the Skeena/Kispiox/Babine some day for the real deal.
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limpingcrab
Trad climber
the middle of CA
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Micro you don’t know a thing about fish. Just ask limpingcrab. I wrote that on the handle of his rod to remind him.
Top one looks kinda like it has some Kern River Rainbow with those offset parr marks between the regular ones, and some golden genes as well.
Bottom one looks like a mostly golden.
I'm 50% talking out of my arse and they could just be sculpin.
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limpingcrab
Trad climber
the middle of CA
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Sep 10, 2018 - 07:39am PT
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IT HAPPENED!!!
Ever since my brother and I switched from worms and spinners to fly fishing about seven years ago we've been hoping to catch a native rainbow over 20 inches on a fly rod in the Sierra. We've caught browns that size, and bows over 20 inches in tail waters, stocked waters, and places outside of their native range.
This weekend my brother landed this beauty, just over 20", on the middle fork of the Kings in unstocked wild trout waters near what might be the last stream in the Sierra that has pure coastal rainbow genetics.
My biggest for the day was 15.5" so, as usual, he caught the fish of the day (or decade for us).
The Kaweah has always been our favorite fishing river, but the MF Kings has taken its place over the last few years (with the Kern steadily rising as well).
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G_Gnome
Trad climber
Cali
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Sep 10, 2018 - 08:31am PT
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Everything about the MF is great except getting back out.
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BG
Trad climber
JTree & Idyllwild
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Sep 10, 2018 - 09:52am PT
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Nice lookin wild rainbow!
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