Alpine Fishing for dummies?

[ken4ord]

Can't believe how many fly snobs are out there. Anyway Dberdinka, just curious how your your Huck Finn adventure go? What did you end up going with and did it work?

[Braumeister]

I pack my fly rod in with the tent polls, and the reel, well, it can stash about anywhere... My flys, well, either in a flybox, or in a film canister depending on what I'm fishin'. And occasionally just to be extra geeky, one or two on the shoulder straps of my pack

 

WTF? A woman who likes dogs, climbing, AND FLY FISHING?!?!?! HEY GUYS, SHE ALSO TIES HER OWN FLIES!!!

 

Props to icegirl!

[Ricardo_Montalban]

Hey all, I have some fish-newbie questions...

has anyone fished the lakes in Indian Heavens Wilderness?

is it allowed? are there fish?

are there many/any subalpine lakes devoid of fish in the cascades?

recommend a good web source for this info?

thanks!

[PeterM]

Check out Scott rods! One of their employees is an avid climber

[dberdinka]

Can't believe how many fly snobs are out there. Anyway Dberdinka, just curious how your your Huck Finn adventure go? What did you end up going with and did it work?

 

I never got a reel and stuck a package of freeze-dried ick in the pack instead.

 

Regardless, we were laying on a rock by the edge of Upper Cathedral Lake sunbathing when a bumblebee starting trying to pollinate our ears. Being a bug it had a rather small brain and couldn't quite figure out that we weren't a flower (actually I'm thinking my buddy might be )

 

So he grabs my hat and makes a rather pathetic display of slowly beating this thing to death, it put up a good fight for 20 seconds or so.

 

He casually flicks it's dismembered carcass into the lake and we go back to baking in the sun.

 

Within a minute the loud CLAP of a large fish hitting the surface breaks the silence. Bumble bee gone! Pretty cool, shoulda stuck a hook in it.

[Crackbolter]

You know you're having fun when you can climb a mountain and go flyfishing all in the same trip. Now if I could figure out how to incorperate skiing and music into this scenario, I would bliss hard.

[cj001f]

You know you're having fun when you can climb a mountain and go flyfishing all in the same trip. Now if I could figure out how to incorperate skiing and music into this scenario, I would bliss hard.

I came close to this last year - while on a Spring Ski Trip in Cali, pausing at a creek, I looked down from the 4' snowbank to see.... brookies rising below. Damn I wish I'd brought a rod.

[Ricardo_Montalban]

thanks for the info, shred!

[Alex]

You know you're having fun when you can climb a mountain and go flyfishing all in the same trip. Now if I could figure out how to incorperate skiing and music into this scenario, I would bliss hard.

 

approach your target alpine lake on skis with a rod and MP3 player?

[Crackbolter]

Mark my word, I will do it. Name a place that has good trout in an alpine lake, a fun ski approach and downhill and a rock climb with 6 pitches or more. Loking for partners for this as well.

[johndavidjr]

This certainly isn't advise, as I've only gone seriously fishing a dozen times in my life. But the best fishing I ever did was with a short stick and maybe six feet of line. I started out with a dry fly, but quickly switched to fish guts, and caught a half-dozen small trout, maybe, in about half an hour.

 

This isn't anything special, but my best catch, & quite good when tossed almost directly on a fire as supplement to whatever crap I was trying to eat at the time.

 

This by the way, was at small lake just off Rainy Pass in 1975. A pretty lonely place at the time, but now has handicapped access via paved walkway from parking lot.