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Thanks all, glad you enjoy these posts. Looks like a 3 day next week and another trip to big Cutthroat country with Brannus. I guess there are a few advantages to a slow construction market ;D

Oh man, $98 roundtrip tickets.

Yeah, I spent half an hour last night on trailbehind ( very useful site btw) and the washington fish and wildlife looking at all of them. My mom has been harassing me to come up and visit her ( San Juan Islands) so any of those lakes that are in the I-5 corridor look good to me. Ive just been dying to get a Muskie for a long time, even more since I started throwing big baits. Bummer deal is that the nearest true muskie is thousands of miles away, and the closest for sure Tigers are up in your neck of the woods, although it appears that at least one lake in Nevada used to have them. Im incredibly interested in checking it out, if you are too, maybe we could hook up?

For me: Sandwich: Potato Bread Miracle Whip Today's Smoked Pork Loin Dry Salami Tillamook Cheddar Habanero Hot Sauce Fresh Minced Garlic Beer: Miller Lite in quantities yet to be determined.

6'8" Thank you. Davis, I was just saying that if that fish was a 5, you must be a hobbit. So maybe you are just an irish chewbacca.

I havent been in a single bass boat that could hold two 20 lb limits safely in the summer time. Then again, BASS hates the west, so they wont have to worry about big bags stuffing up the tanks. ;D

I might be way off, or you might be a hobbit, but it looks 7ish to me.

Another backpacking trip in the books. My girl and I took off for 4 days and 3 nights in the Desolation Wilderness. When we left, it was cooooooold. After hiking past little Beauty Lake and marshy Maude Lake, we headed up the gnarly Rockbound Pass. Clouds were rolling in, and the wind was howling. Unfortunately this picture doesnt capture the cool eddying effect in that cloud as it scraped over the mountain. We dropped down the other side of the pass to quaint little Lake Doris, which I have shown pics of before. That was mile 7 of day one. Then past Lake Lois at mile 8.5, which I will show pics of a little later. We then arrived at our destination of Lake Schmidell at mile 10 for day 1, which I have never been to. A very large and beautiful lake. Fishing sucked, it was cold, and we had hiked a good piece for having fully loaded packs (41lbs for me) and with not being adjusted to the altitude, we opted to crash. That night was cooooold. This was the view out the rear vestibule of our tent in the morning. I had hoped to jump over the ridge from here, but after scouring the map and doing a gut check, we decided that there was a very cool loop route that we could do that would keep us from hiking out the same way we came in. So on day 2 we hiked back down to Lake Lois and set up shop there, opting not to hike a whole bunch and do a good deal of fishing at the lake that was so awesome on our last trip. We only got to fish it for an hour or two last month, so I gave us a full day to check it out, moving that to day 2 instead of 4. Well, the fishing really sucked, I think owing to the massive cold snap putting the fish down. But the scenery was tough to beat. The inlet was still a bit chilly. Heaven Day 3 saw us jumping across the ridge using an old, poorly marked stock trail that topped us out above 9,000ft. Our car was parked at 6,200. If you look at this picture, you can see a shelf a couple hundred feet below the top of the mountain, we sidehilled that shelf in a right to left direction. This is Lake Lois from near the top of the pass. Topped out. We hiked another mile or so down the other side, and I looked over the hill to figure out our trailless route down to Top Lake. This bit was pretty hairy at times, specially with a full pack on your back. We did make it down after half an hour of scrambling, and I found the quintessential alpine meadow stream. Not wide, but quite deep, with undercut banks, and full of spawning Brookies. Watch out for fishy man-goo. The lake turned out to be barren as near as I can tell. A sad trait of many of the lakes in this area, due to tree-hugging haters of trout plants. Still a pretty lake though. Using the girls spinning rod out of desperation From there we did another short x-country to Lake No. 9 which is also fishless. Down from 9 was Lawrence Lake another recent victim of stocking cessation. Many of these lakes lack sufficient spawning habitat for fish to reproduce. After that we hiked up past ugly, fishless, Lake Number 5, and do to poor navigation on my part, ended up a half mile off track. The silver lining being this. This is some sort of twin engine that went down in 1969. Since it is many, many miles from the nearest road, they still have not cleaned up the site. After diagnosing the error in course plotting, we got back on trail and headed the couple of miles up to Lake " I dont even dare posting its name". This lake was to be the crown jewel of the trip, and boy was it. Very hard to reach from any direction, and one of only a few lakes in this area (there are at least 75) that still has Golden Trout. First five minutes of fishing rewarded me with this little alpine gem. There were a dozen more like him caught that evening, and finally, as it was getting dark, I popped this one. I know it doesnt look big, and it isnt, but for its species, and the Desolation Wilderness these days, its a DANG good one. A bit more fishing in the morning and we were off. On the way out, there was one more off trail lake I wanted to check out. It was not attractive, it was devoid of fish, and the bushwacking to get to it was not much fun. After that we hopped on the trail and did another 7 miles back to the car, passing Dark Lake on the way out. For at least 5 of those miles, the evidence of this guy's passing kept us company. So that was 4 days, 3 nights, 12 lakes and 31 miles of pure heaven. Cant wait to get back. If you bass fishing rednecks ever get tired of reading these California granola cruncher posts, bury them in the Other Species forum, lol.

Does anyone here fish this lake? I was hoping to make a trip up there soon. Lookin to throw some of my big baits for those tigers

Thats cute, a starter kit ;D Kidding dude, but I do have a pile of them. Under $20: 3:16 Mission Fish ( I like the 7", but the 6 is great as well) 3:16 Rising Son. ( get the smaller one unless you have a big bait rod) Matts Gills and 6" Trout. 6" Huddleston Optimum AC Minnow 7"

Yeah, its a very weird looking bait. For the price, there are better in all sizes in my opinion.

best one i could find.

Id like to see a hunting board.

I love all the time and attention paid to the engine and engine compartment, then they put a bent up K&N right on top to stare you in the face. Jeez guys, take 30seconds and straighten that sucker out.

So I Married an Axe Murderer "..and what, to flog a horse, that if not dead, is at this point in mortal danger of expiring, does this little square represent?"

Anyone who refers to Slayer as "pwn"ing should be summarily shot. Slayer dominates, but if you walked up to Kerry King and told him he "pwn"ed I dont think you would like the reaction.

I dont think it makes a spot of difference. I never really use scents anymore. The smell of powerworms turns me on though.

MAGNUM PERCH!

;D

That dude is the polar opposite of emo. He makes emo kids scared to cut themselves for fear of him disemboweling them in the afterlife. Also, that is off of an instructional dvd, that is why they are just sitting there and not rocking it out properly, lol.

Arthur " I caught you a delicious bass"

Comment: If that is how the fish are in the Potomac, I woudnt want to go fishing with any of the "lady" anglers that fish there.

Nacho Libre "You fellas sure you wanna ride this train?"