2012 Random Collection of Photos not fit for a TR

[schwerty]

This thread is delivering this yr! It almost inspires me enough to buy a camera and learn how to use it.

[skifishbum]

^^^^
bring that sweet boat down and let me row er
I'll let ya use the dslr
What's up with the bun in the oven sit???
you got any sept hall passes???
lookin for a few guides for thehttp://www.tu.org/2012UTSF
I'll send Kessler up to baby sit
here's a little stoke from a http://www.projecthealingwaters.org/ outing we held last month

[DeathVan]

Sweet SFB!

This was my first time working with this group. I'm stoked to get more involved.

[schwerty]

Cool pics SFB.

Kid 2 is scheduled to arrive 9/25, so I am about outta overnight hall passes. Next weekend is gonna be my last to even head out of the JH valley for day trips. Kessler can babysit anytime. Come up here. You can row/fish the new boat when ever you want.

[tone capone]

It's an honor to post in this beautiful thread. I went up to the high country again to beat the heat and well, once you're in shape for some backpacking you might as well get out and do it while you can. I love the beartooths, great gimp country if you know what you're getting into. Great for hucks this time of year, and not the kind off cliffs into snow! I picked a great spot to camp and got into a few fish that evening but not crazy hot action.















Next morning was dead still and it was more productive taking pictures of natural rorsharch tests than fishing.





So I got out of there to go check on another lake.



Went over a pass to a big lake with legions of 6 to 10 inchers with a few decent 13, 14 inchers along the banks thrown in.













I got bored of that after a few hours.



Went back to camp and slayed em on dry flies for a couple hours in the afternoon. Nice chunky fish, fun fishing.













At that point I got overconfident and bid farewell to these benevolent waters with the idea that I would slay Goldens at another lake. I got there and one actually porpoised out of the water right in front of me, convinving me further that they would be no match for my angling skills...

[tone capone]

Set up camp in a beautiful and convienient spot here too and was stoked. Went fishing during the prime evening and morning hours and came up without a bite. One would rise or splash about every half hour in random locations, but I couldn't seem to entice one to bite anything including scuds or imitations of the abundant large moths fluttering about in the evening. A total mystery and study in contrast to those dumb cutts that made me feel like a champ. Nice to sleep well in some soft grass though.







Ran into the sickest grouse hucks of all time at almost 10'000'. The huckleberries were crazy at around 8500'. I hate myself silly on the way in and out.

[gretch6364]

Awesome...some really nice cuttues.

SFB, that second pic is priceless...she seems to have no idea and is just smiling for the picture and the fish is like...fuck this, I am out!

[Lone Star]

been fishing some really beautiful water in the middle of great basin lava junipershrubland. some nice browns and rainbows to be had, nothing photo worthy especially being solo and uncoordinated. but today, happened upon a new species. a mature Lahontan Redside:




Had to throw on foam and size 10 hooks to keep these aggressive guys from messing up my drift for teh trouts.

[YoungManofTheMountain]

[akokskis]

Wait.. What? How did you...?? That's not the east....... ???



(GREAT shots!!)

[YoungManofTheMountain]

^^^Thanks man

I have my pop smuggle them in when he visits. the new cans are nice but brewed in ny? i dont know man...

[TNKen]

Kid w/ a mid 30's this afternoon in the Clinch River, north of Knoxville TN. Rain and fog most of the day. Got two this size.

[Mr. Mike]

TC, great pics. You mind edumacating me on your tent site selection? I'm about to take my first backpacking trip to high lakes country. You seem to be setting up lower and further from the water than I naturally would, but I am mostly a flatlander. Maybe the distance from the water is regulatory. Anyway,when I look at your pictures, my eye naturally goes to a spot a little elevated and close to the water, but that's not where I see your tent. I figure there's probably a reason for that.

[tone capone]

I like to camp in the softest, flattest place I can find. Nothing better than sleeping on a mat of grass like in those spots, as long as it's dry. Sleeping is hard enough for me as it is, I gotta make that a priority. It's less impact on the land than on areas with a more delicate ground cover. I also do this because I generally like to chill out, eat and hang a bear bag over a rock face in the more elevated terrain around a lake, hopefully a couple hundred feet or so from where I sleep. Not that the areas I've been camping in are infested with bears, but in the high country I don't take my chances with goats or marmots which can get into your stuff and ruin your day as well.

[tone capone]

Anyways, the weeks and weeks (months?) of fair weather have really made it convienient to camp up in the high beartooths. My camp choices would certainly be different if there were trains of thunderstorms every afternoon. It's nice not to have to worry about that.

Watching the apocolyptic scenario of the Pine Creek fire on the way home form that last trip put the fear of god in me for the moment as far as hiking or biking in forested areas, so I went and hit up the high, dry and windy end of the beartooths on my most recent days off. I had minimal broken forest to get through, camped at treeline and took some day hikes to 4 very high lakes in the area in search of trophy cutts and decent brookies. It was windy, it was smoky, fishing wasn't super hot, but it was a still a couple good days in the mountains.

Most generous of the lakes I visited:



Caught some brookies the first evening, here's a sample:





Walked on up to the cutthroat lake, fished for an hour and caught one 13, 14 incher that looked like it had already been dead for a few hours, weird looking fish.



Went back down to the brookie lake and caught a few more. Fished till dark, ate, chilled, slept, good day.



Next day took me across plateau country to first another decent brookie lake. A very high, very deep, very windy lake.



The wind was just unmanageable and the shoreline was slow going so I opted pretty quickly to get out of there and head to a lake with a reputation for trophy cutts in the sixth year of it's stocking cycle.



A slightly lower but still high and windy lake. Cool little bays and coves with cool drop shelfs, but not a bite or a fish seen at this one.



Up and over the plateau again, my goal now to get back to camp then up the lake I actually caught fish at.



Still some lines out there if you're interested:



Bear's tooth through the smoke:



...and back to the productive water:



not the hottest fishing, but caught several "decent" brookies.





This one got hooked deep and so I ate it, sorry. It was one of the best tasting trout of all time for me, very salmon like.



back at camp:



next smoky morning:



looking back at camp:



Went back up to check on the cutts. I could tell it was gonna be a windy day but I wanted to make the best of it.

Unnamed lake on the way up.



Man it was fierce up there.





I fished for an hour but didn't get a bite and felt like I needed to be in a space suit to survive the elements. It harshed my mellow so back to old faithful which was slightly less windy:



It felt pretty hopeless there too. I fished the best I could between gusts, and just as I was starting to feel like a complete fool, I felt the surge of a larger fish as I worked sideways along a drop shelf from a rock ourcrop. It made some strong runs and then hung me up in the weeds where my heart sank as I thought for sure I'd lose it but I was rewarded instead of humiliated by the adiposal gods as I brought in this little piglet:






I wanted to get a better shot but it's tail half kept blowing away in the wind:



That's the best I could do, gotta get him back home quick. That was the only fish I caught on that last day but it made the trip for me. It was a tough few days but you can't always expect epic fishing and I was super grateful for what that lake coughed up for me in the end.



Sorry about the hijack, just really wanted to share how that worked out. I love going back over everyones pics in this thread, really some great ones, thanks guys.

[AKami]

Hey TC, are those last two fish Tiger Trout? We don't get those up here and haven't actually seen one before. Regardless...beautiful area and great pics.

[tone capone]

Those are the same fish, and it's a male brook trout. Tiger trout are a hybrid of Brook and Brown trout made in a lab. It sometimes happens in the wild where both species coexsist but it's rare.

[wicked_sick]

There's some great pictures of beautiful country in this thread. Here's a picture of the biggest rainbow I've caught so far this season.

[thin cover]

nice shots again all, and nice lunker brookie TC, love brookies.

Cold weather is upon northern vt and flows are good. Took my son out yesterday and had a blast. For a short stint we landed some great fish and all 3 major species indigenous to Vermont. Or more he just observed mostly since he is 3.

all iPhone shots, been lazy with taking the big camera.
started off with some smaller fish




monster Fall Brown




pic of a pic my friend took






this was the winner on the day, I am 6"5" 250lbs with penis fingers, so doesn't look so big here, but I give him 20" or so. He needed a belly though, hopefully removing that hook will pig him out a bit.






He had an old leader/swivel/hook hanging out his mouth, remnants of a meat dunker, It was rusted enough where I was able to get it out.


stoked for some more fall browns, the season is here.

[DeathVan]

Great weekend out here

A Hike










A Camp



Some Silver

[tone capone]

Awesome guys, good work taking care of that nice brown, T.C. Sweet that you love fishing man, hope the leg is doing o.k. I used to love fishing those kind of creeks back east.

[yellowstoner]

Just a little more stoke from this past summer. On to Utah now - can't wait to hit some fall browns.

[gretch6364]

You rule at handling fish.

[YoungManofTheMountain]

[tone capone]

Hello from where the brookies look like they are blown up with a pump. I can't in good conscience give any clues as to the location of this lake on a public forum.

























Biggest one, shitty photo with the bad light. Couldn't handle that one with much dexterity. Photos don't show how wide they are, just like footballs.



Worthy of a TR, but I would likely be hunted down and killed for giving out clues as to the location. If you have heard the rumors, indeed they are true. Took me years to figure out which lake, no info on the interwebs. Ferocious Brookies with bigger bodies than largemouth bass in a high mountain lake, not a bad way to kill a few beautiful days.