Now that my boy is able to fish on his own a little, I'm planning a trip up to the Sierras next week. I usually make a trip to Convict but I haven't heard a whole lot of fishing reports from the Sierras. Anyone have any tips on where we should go? We are going to tent camp and fish for a few days and check out the hatchery and other cool places in the area.
Trout Fishing
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I got back last Wednesday night from a 6day trip at June Lake. Had a blast (as I always do) but weather wasn't the greatest while we were there, full moon, winds and couple cloudy cold days. Our best fishing was in the streams cause of the winds. This was the first time that I've ever been up there and never once got up early to go fishing and we still did well. If you want your boy to have a good time and stay interested then check the dfg website and found out what weeks they plan to stock Mammoth Ck or Deadman Ck, you could slaughter them on salmon eggs or crappie jigs. Convict is nice but the creek could be tough for a kid just learning being its narrow with lots of trees. We made the drive up to Sonora Pass to check out the W. Walker River close to the Marine Base, killed them there with about an hr left to fish. This is what we kept and the big one(4#) my boys friend caught on his second cast after reeling one in on his first cast. He has never been to the Sierra's and caught this fish plus a 2# rainbow and a decent brown out of Saddlebag.
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Camped the 23-30 at twin lakes in mammoth. This is hands down best trout fishing I have ever seen. Goto upper twin hike to the waterfalls fish garlic chunky cheese gulp till 10 am then switch to pautzkes deluxe eggs. This method slayed um I caught easily 300 fish in 6 days. Mostly small fish but when u pick through um there's some dandys.my biggest was 4lb. Also flouro 2lb leader was key. Also check out rock creek lake great place good fishing and there's just something about standing in a creek dumping into a lake in the sierras . Also a proud moment in a fathers life as my 18 month old caught her first fish after that we couldn't get the rod out of her hands
The reason we went up in June this year is because I asked my 4yr old(now 5) what he wanted to do for his bday. His response was to go to June Lake cause it is called June Lk and his bday is in June so he had a bday while we were up there. Last year he had a great time reeling in the fish I hooked as he did this year but he really wanted to to do all the casting himself this time. I gave him as much time as I could casting a spinning reel but it was hard with the winds and brush in the streams. Here are a couple more proud pics:
I was fortunate enough to be able to go three times last season, I was hoping to get drawn for a deer this year so I could go again in September but that didn't happen so hopefully I can get back up there in October to catch some browns. Archery in Utah is going to take up our usual time in August.