High Country Lake Fishing - Video

[troutah 0]

This is one place I definitely love to take my flies. This winter, I tied up a few purple parachute adams and purple xcaddis specifically for this lake this summer.

 

[mikechell 0]

Not being a trout angler ... I am guessing those are Cutthroats? Pretty fish, pretty country.

[troutah 0]

Yes, they are cutthroats. My guess would be Rio Grande Cutthroats, but I'm not really sure.

[epzamora 0]

Beautiful.

 

eric

fresno, ca.

[troutah 0]

Thanks Eric!

[NoSlack 0]

I really enjoyed that, thank you for sharing.

[vicrider 0]

Once upon a time I'd do hikes like that to get to the fish. Now the fish have to come to me. Of interest to me is if the lake had native trout in it or if all those high country lakes are pretty sterile and need stocking. Pictures of air stocking of remote lakes are pretty cool. Kind of takes the reasoning for chastising a person for dropping a fish into the water from the side of a boat moot.

[troutah 0]

My understanding is that most of the high altitude lakes were sterile (of fish) before the stockings. However, I also understand that once stocked most of the lakes do support self reproducing populations. So while not native, they should at least be wild.

 

Geirach has a great quote about air stockings which say something like, they are pretty successful, when they hit the lake.

[vicrider 0]

An interesting fact that surfaced in MN through their many stocking programs was that if totally killed off a lake and ONLY stocked trout the growth rate for several years would be phenomenal. Eventually rough fish and minnows would get in there. Live minnows were illegal on those lakes but...you know. One great trout lake was right across the road from a warm water fishery. Kids would catch perch from one lake and throw them in the trout lake since Dad wasn't catching anything.

 

As soon as competition increased between other fish for food and trout had to chase minnows instead of slurping and sucking up bugs the yearly growth rate fell. At least in those lakes people won't be hauling in minnows or dumping what they didn't feel like cleaning from another lake in there. Beautiful part of the country.

[Bryon Anderson 0]

I really really love the land, the water and the fishing here in Michigan, but....that video made me want to pack up and move. Beautiful, thanks for sharing.

[Trampus 0]

Beautiful country and beautiful cutties! I see you use trekking poles! I used them last year for the first time in the Sierra Nevada high country and I will never hike without them again! Thanks for sharing :-)

[troutah 0]

I've seen some debate on the hiking poles, but they work for me, so I'm sticking with them for now.

[Adam Saarinen 0]

That's a beautiful looking place! Thankyuou for sharing!