TR: A beartooth Fishing Derby, Aero Lakes, MT
So three friends and I spent the 5 nights during second week of August in the Absoroka-Beartooth wilderness just outside of Cooke City, MT. Sooo beautiful up in those mountains! We lucked out and saw zero rain over the course of the trip, mostly bluebird every day!
Lower Aero Lake is supposed to be the of the biggest and deepest lakes in the beartooths, it was close to a mile across and over three hundred feet deep! The fishing was insane! Fishing with spinner rods and lures, there was easily over 100 caught between the four of us over the course of four day! Easily the most fish i've caught in one place in my life! Photos taken by the DonkeyLips9 and TheBigEast
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wanabe mags gregg and orin, here orin showing up his best point
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Zeus our fearless leader!
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Some pretty flowers
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DonkeyLips9 posing for a photo for mom
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Zeus and DonkeyLips9 doing something
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Ahh Finally there! Our first view of the lake
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Obligatory group shot for the rents. DonkeyLips9, non-mag orin and gregg, TheBigEast
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Gregg, TheBigEast, Orin
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Good Mouring Lower Aero Lake!
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MMMM! Nothing like having two lbs of bacon in the backcountry!
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Let the derby begin! TheBigEast
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Dinner for Four
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Damn looks like salmon
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Soo Beautiful FKNA!
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Looking back across Lower Aero towards camp, its on the point on the very left portion of the lake.
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Oh the possibilities! Zeus and DonkeyLips9 at Upper Aero Lake
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DonkeyLips9
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Gregg and Zeus, Zeus got a little close to the edge
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Some random dude we say freeclimbing this cliff off in the distance!
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Orin telling me he loves me
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TheBigEast getting it done on a nasty little traverse! It was about 45 degree slope into some really deep water
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What beauties! DonkeyLips9 showing us some of his finer catches
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Nothing Like fresh trout cooked over some hot coals
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Leroy, our resident mountain goat for the week, looking awefully scary!
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TheBigEast with peanut butter in his mouth and orin
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DonkeyLips9: "hey guys that sunset is pretty cool, lets climb up and get a better look"
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Yep glad we climbed up and took a look!
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"YESSSSS!"
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A closer look
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