Hike-In Cutties

[TroutPanther]

I decided to give the Bow rest for a couple weekends and get out into the mountains for some hike-in cutthroat fishing. Luckily, I hiked with a buddy who has a good eye for photography (and unluckily, with much better cardio than me). Obviously please don't name-drop the locations if you know where they are. Hopefully the photo-sharing works fine. Here are some of the highlights:

 

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[Komp]

Looks fantastic! Thanks for sharing!

[jgib01]

Looks awesome! Those are some great photos. Looking at them though, my lungs hurt I've still not recovered from my wife dragging my arse up Turtle Mountain this past weekend. Bad thing about it was there wasn't even a lake at the top... I clearly have to plan my hiking destinations more carefully.

[Muffin]

Damn that looks like a great way to spend a weekend.

 

Thanks for sharing the post definitely gives a guy a drive to do some remote hike in fishing.

[Sage]

great pictures!!!

[MattyTaylor]

Thanks for sharing! We had a newborn in June so posts like these help (slightly) with my lack of fishing this summer. It's part of the long game though - hoping the kids will be on some of those trips with me soon enough.

[sloken]

these are top notch!!

[bcubed]

Havent been up to the first one since highschool... always amazed me the color of the place for a alpine lake. Tropical even

[BurningChrome]

Great pics!

[ÜberFly]

Know both well though haven't been to the first in over 10 years and the 2nd one we were in there 5 or so years ago. Both are great but the 2nd sees way less people (hence the size of the fish!!)!!

 

Thanks for sharing. Great photos!

 

Cheers,

 

P

[TroutPanther]

Glad you guys enjoyed the pics! Definitely a beautiful part of our province - every time I go I find my hike-in bucket list gets even longer. Aleady scheming to get a couple bigger trips in next summer.

[RedBeard]

Beauty shots!

[monger]

Beautiful! Nice prizes at the end of a long walk

[Swede]

Those are spectacular photos. The black and white reminds me of the old John Muir photos.

 

Great stuff thanks for sharing.

[FinnDawg]

Awesomeness!

[fishfreak]

Great pics! I was there the week before with my wife on a 5-day backpacking trip. We caught a bunch of 12" cutties, nothing like the hog you got, but a grizzly bear and crazy winds cut our 2 fishing sessions short. Great to see some big ones in there!

[treeplanter]

Great pics! Great lakes! How's the rock snot in the "vince"? Haven't been there for a few years. There was hardly any didymo way back when they stocked Goldens; but from '05 to '11 it grew a lot. It looks like you went higher up the ridge than you needed to; were you checking out the vision quest rock circles?

[TroutPanther]

Hey treeplanter -

the rock snot was not too bad - quite a bit of it in the deep bay in the SE of the lake and along the east shore, but otherwise not much. The fish didn't seem to mind. Neither of us had ever been to the lake, and it was nice hoofing it up that wide open ridge with the views after scaling that damn mountain. Had no idea there were vision circles to check out. We did notice a trail further back down the ridge heading towards the lake, but we decided to press on to that faint goat trail you can see in the pic so we wouldn't lose as much elevation and have to make it up again. Mistake. Made for a pretty nasty descent in some chunky scree/unstable boulders. Unfortunately no goldens left (not that we were expecting any).