High Country Fishing Trip

[Hnthrdr]

I fish a lot up there, but don’t really like early July as the cuts are still all stacked up on the outlets and inlets spawning.


Sadly one of my favorites was littered with people, maybe an influencer found it, but for 20 years never saw a person fishing it. 7 people on it Sunday. Fish size was way down as well.

I hope people aren’t totally decimating it. Would be shame!

 

[Coveyleader]

Who knows, I used to average 16-18 inch cuts in there. Some closing in 20 + inches which is giant when they get fat. Don’t even see a fish like that. For fish to get that big, it’s deep enough and winterkill is not an issue, and escapes fishing pressure. The latter was never an issue as the fish were dumb as a rock, so people must be taking a few home.

 

[Poser]

Who knows, I used to average 16-18 inch cuts in there. Some closing in 20 + inches which is giant when they get fat. Don’t even see a fish like that. For fish to get that big, it’s deep enough and winterkill is not an issue, and escapes fishing pressure. The latter was never an issue as the fish were dumb as a rock, so people must be taking a few home.

I'd wager its more just attrition rate from being caught, the use barbs, mishandling, whipping the fish out of the water etc.

 

[Coveyleader]

I'd wager its more just attrition rate from being caught, the use barbs, mishandling, whipping the fish out of the water etc.

Maybe, like I said it was like a private lake every time Infished it. I hiked up to it normally around the 4th of July weekend, and again one more time in August it was always money. Just big cruising crusher cuts. Its 7 miles one way to get up there so you think it would leave the riff raft behind, but that’s nothing these days once someone gets wind of it. I have another lake about 2 miles in that has big fish, Inwill hit that before summer ends. Staring to focus on archery seasons , so fishing is back burner now.

 

[thinhorn_AK]

Maybe, like I said it was like a private lake every time Infished it. I hiked up to it normally around the 4th of July weekend, and again one more time in August it was always money. Just big cruising crusher cuts. Its 7 miles one way to get up there so you think it would leave the riff raft behind, but that’s nothing these days once someone gets wind of it. I have another lake about 2 miles in that has big fish, Inwill hit that before summer ends. Staring to focus on archery seasons , so fishing is back burner now.

Sucks when your spots stop producing. I knew a place I could take a packraft to, never ever saw a single person back there or heard anybody talk about it. It took ~ 4 miles of paddling a creek and lining the raft but that pond was packed full of northern pike.

It was great, there was a shallow bay, weedy, the fish weren’t a kiddish at all, I could sight fish for them with my fly rod. There were also some large 40+ inch fish in there.

Apparently a few winters ago somebody took a snow machine there and ice fished the shit out of it because about 3 years ago there were only small fish in it, the past 2 years I can’t caught a fish in that place or even gotten a follow….nothing.