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Fritz
Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Jul 29, 2016 - 11:51am PT
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Wade Icey! Pardon my slow reply to your question, but I've been out suffering in the mountains.
Someone mentioned to me that wading was preferable to fishing from the bank on a certain small stream and I realized I had never considered the impact of just walking around a small stream. Tread lightly and consider the leave no trace option appropriate to the terrain. Any advice from more experienced anglers is appreciated.
Wading has an impact on all the aquatic insects that live on the river cobbles. Course gravel may well have fish eggs or tiny hatchlings living in it. Sand is pretty sterile, so no problems with wading it & same with big rocks.
One or two wading fishers are not going to impact an aquatic insect population by much, but dozens or hundreds of waders can have an impact. Fewer mayflies, stoneflies, & caddis hatching equals fewer & smaller fish.
I've never seen an actual study on the impact wading causes, but I haven't read a fishing magazine or hung out with professional fly fishers since the late 1990's.
Oh, my suffering in the mountains photos. We were fishing in moose country with fresh tracks & mooseshit everywhere in areas with dense brush & beaver dams. Happily we didn't get closer than this.
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guyman
Social climber
Moorpark, CA.
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Aug 18, 2016 - 06:38pm PT
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Went to Bishop Creek and Rock Creek with the Gome.... he got lots of fish. I was able to get some, little ones mostly, but to me, just to get the fly floating long enuf is the crux and add in the "set the hook" part and well FF aint easy.
But I am happy to add that because of the on-line lesson and advise from fellow ST FF men no fish were harmed .... thanks for the info.
I was able to corral them and keep them in the water the whole time, a wet hand to hold em and get the fly out... they did really tear off after after the release.
I also learned to get them up close, slack on the line some, and many would spit the hook, with out having to be handled.
much fun
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johntp
Trad climber
socal
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Aug 18, 2016 - 07:44pm PT
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QuoteEver eaten Kokanee??? Holy sh#t, they are tasty! Here
Tasty!
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BG
Trad climber
JTree & Idyllwild
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Just got back from 2 weeks of fly fishing in Alaska. Caught some nice silvers.
Got lucky this year fishing the Kenai River, as the size of the pink salmon was the largest anyone has seen in over 42 years. Found a great hole where I caught some record breakers.
Bob Gaines pink salmon kenai river fly fishing
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ruppell
climber
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Nice Bob.
I just got back from a few hours up at South Lake. I managed to get over 50 fish in that short time. The funny thing is all 50 of them combined probably weigh less then that last fish you posted a shot of.
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BG
Trad climber
JTree & Idyllwild
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I asked my wife once if she'd rather catch 50 little trout or one 20 pound trout in a day and she said "50 little trout." Me, I'd rather catch one big one for the day!
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ruppell
climber
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That's why Alaska is the best of both worlds. You can easily catch 50 slobs in a day up there.
I had a pretty good day last week. Hit up South Lake after work. Managed to land five bows over the 24" mark. All in about an hour of fishing. I hooked into one that snapped three pound test with two quick head shakes. It was a big fish. For me it's always the ones that get away that keep me going. I'll go back to that same spot till I land him. He must have taken today off cause there where no big fish to be found.
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BG
Trad climber
JTree & Idyllwild
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Hit up South Lake after work. Managed to land five bows over the 24" mark. All in about an hour of fishing.
That's some world class fishing- no matter where you are!
I always loved fishing at South Lake: you gotta love an alpine reservoir you can drive right up to. How's the water level these days?
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ruppell
climber
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Water level was up this year. Until last week you could launch at the ramp. It's just a foot or so below the ramp as of today.
The past three years have been great there for fishing in solitude. When the water levels dropped people went elsewhere to fish. I spent that time hiking my float tube down to what was left of the lake and having really good days. Since nothing was able to be stocked all the fish I was hooking up with where full fin lake born fish.
It's been funny listening to people say how it's shitty fishing there. How it's fishless. How good it used to be. I'd bite my tongue for fear of giving away a lake that I basically had all to myself for three seasons. Now that the water levels are returning to normal and DFG can put those annoying little stockers in again I figure it's ok to let that cat out of the bag.
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BLUEBLOCR
Social climber
joshua tree
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OMG, BG!
Nice record setting. That thang's Bionic! like it just swang through a nuclear flowout maybe?
you sure seem to got the timing down pat, way to GO!
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johntp
Trad climber
socal
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Just got back from 2 weeks of fly fishing in Alaska. Caught some nice silvers.
Fly fishing or spin fishing?
Did you stay at a lodge? If so, which one if I can ask?
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BG
Trad climber
JTree & Idyllwild
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Fly fishing. Rented a cabin in the town of Cooper Landing, which is about a 2-hour drive west of Anchorage.
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johntp
Trad climber
socal
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Fly fishing. Rented a cabin in the town of Cooper Landing, which is about a 2-hour drive west of Anchorage.
Thanks.
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guyman
Social climber
Moorpark, CA.
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Nice fish Bob.
TPFU
WTF nice one too... Lower Sac? Is that below Sacramento?
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Fritz
Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
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You folks are just killing me. I've had tennis elbow in my fishing arm from non-fishing overuse all summer.
I look at those big-hogs photos and my elbow hurts even more.
I'm in physical therapy now, since I've got to get healed before our fall-spawning rainbows start up.
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
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For me it's always the ones that get away that keep me going. I'll go back to that same spot till I land him. He must have taken today off cause there where no big fish to be found.
That's why we all fish. Thrill of the chase, and the allure that you 'never know what yer gonna get'. That big one is just a cast away.
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guyman
Social climber
Moorpark, CA.
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WTF... thanks for the info.
I will put that one on the bucket list.
Going to take a few days off work later this month to go way up the east side. I have never fished by Bridgeport or the Walker River.
I hope to get a photo of a trout worthy of this thread.
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ruppell
climber
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Guyman
Those are both really good places. Lundy is on the way up and also a lake with some large fish.
If you really want to start hooking into big fish pick one lake. Learn the lake. It sounds silly but every body of water has it's own personality. The big fish are there in almost everyone of them. It's finding them that takes time.
The reason I tend to land a lot of big fish is because I focus on a few lakes and know them very well by now. I also spend more time walking then fishing. I sight fish. I'll walk a lake higher up on the bank until I see a fish that's big. Then I'll watch him for a few minutes and try and figure out his feeding or cruising pattern.
Armed with that knowledge I'll drop down to a spot that he'll be in and cast on him until he hits. If he doesn't I'll wait it out until he returns to that same spot on his pattern. Eventually you can usually get them to take.
It kinda of goes along with what Bob said upthread. I'd rather land one big fish then a bunch of little ones. Don't get me wrong the little ones can be fun and landing 50 is something I do when the big fish are heads down. If the big fish are cruising though that's what I'm after.
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
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Fishing is it's own form of hunting. But you can usually have the option of letting them go.
I'm more in to big bass (striper/largemouths), and they suck on the dinner table, better suited for battle in the water. And that's where I always return them after I 'abuse' them.
Me and bass are good friends. We have an understanding.
Like golf, I may someday get into fly-fishing. Both seem to appeal to me more and more as I age. Just not there yet, despite the fun it looks like.
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
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Tad, I'm sure you get a fair share of stripers hitting those salmon/trout flies, right? ANd if it's the mighty Sac, largeemouth bass prolly hit those flies too.
Being in the water is just as peaceful as the mountains. To most.
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