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October in the Sierra
Post 11 Oct 2017, 12:03 • #1 
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I thought I would share some pictures from a weekend backpack trip in the Emigrant Wilderness. It snowed earlier in the week, just enough to close Sonora Pass for a day or two. Then it warmed back up, just in time for the weekend.

following trail above Relief Reservoir
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Brookie on tenkara
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Pine marten, perched on a log
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cross country
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destination
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Rainbow/golden hybrid, caught on an ugly EHC
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up before dawn
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Echo big water glass 5wt and new Medalist
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#18 griffith's gnat
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cross country descent
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nearing the valley
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back on trail, creek crossing and adjacent pools
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some more tenkara fishing
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Post 11 Oct 2017, 12:11 • #2 
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Wonderful pics!


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Post 11 Oct 2017, 13:10 • #3 
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Wow! Thanks for sharing!


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Post 11 Oct 2017, 16:06 • #4 
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Great stuff! Amazing out that way.
-Dave


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Post 11 Oct 2017, 16:08 • #5 
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Awesome pics. That area is so incredible looking.


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Post 11 Oct 2017, 18:50 • #6 
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Outstanding pictures. Makes me miss the Sierra.


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Post 11 Oct 2017, 19:29 • #7 
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Excellent Outing ! I love Goldens !!

Pecos


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Post 11 Oct 2017, 20:20 • #8 
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Incredible photos Odonata!


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Post 11 Oct 2017, 20:34 • #9 
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Is that Heaven?


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Post 11 Oct 2017, 20:36 • #10 
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Beautiful! The Sierras are something to behold.


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Post 11 Oct 2017, 22:29 • #11 
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Thanks for sharing! Super pics...


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Post 12 Oct 2017, 02:55 • #12 
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Those golden bows sure make for some cool-looking fish!


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Post 13 Oct 2017, 09:37 • #13 
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Beautiful!
How do you like the Echo? I'm seriously considering the Big Water 4wt for backbacking/canyon fishing where I have to scramble up, down and over large boulders. I like the Echo's 4pc, 8 1/2 configuration. I hate taking my Epic, McFarlands, Seele,etc because I've darn near destroyed some nice un-warranteed rods while scrambling around rocky canyons. Love to hear your feedback.

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Post 13 Oct 2017, 10:59 • #14 
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Beautiful!
What makes you believe there is a rainbow in the mix for the first trout pic? Couldn't that be the Little Kern type Golden?


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Post 13 Oct 2017, 14:49 • #15 
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Robert wrote:
Beautiful!
How do you like the Echo? I'm seriously considering the Big Water 4wt for backbacking/canyon fishing where I have to scramble up, down and over large boulders. I like the Echo's 4pc, 8 1/2 configuration. I hate taking my Epic, McFarlands, Seele,etc because I've darn near destroyed some nice un-warranteed rods while scrambling around rocky canyons. Love to hear your feedback.

Robert
Thanks. Usually for this kind of thing I bring my Orvis Superfine Glass 4wt, and I'm sure the Echo 4wt is nice too. I like the 5wt for more umph against the wind and throwing hoppers or streamers or heavier nymphs, which happened at the end of the trip at the far end of Relief Reservoir (didn't post pics). The Orvis has a no questions warranty, and at this lake the fish wanted mainly small midges, so it would have been fine. Sometimes whim wins out, I guess :)


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Post 13 Oct 2017, 14:52 • #16 
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herefishifishi wrote:
Beautiful!
What makes you believe there is a rainbow in the mix for the first trout pic? Couldn't that be the Little Kern type Golden?
Most stocked goldens in the Sierra were contaminated by rainbow hybridization in the Cottonwood Lakes during the last century, and this is not the first trip I've taken to this lake. But who knows, I've never seen a little Kern golden, and I didn't bring a portable gene sequencer with me this time :)


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Post 15 Oct 2017, 17:41 • #17 
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Brookies west of their natural range has always angered me. You guys have great bull, brown, rainbow, cutt and other trout fishing. I feel our worth has been plundered. I kid of course.... maybe.... nice pics.


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Post 15 Oct 2017, 23:02 • #18 
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the abandoned brane wrote:
Brookies west of their natural range has always angered me. You guys have great bull, brown, rainbow, cutt and other trout fishing. I feel our worth has been plundered. I kid of course.... maybe.... nice pics.


Thanks. Funny you should mention; I believe there are some lakes in the south Lake Tahoe area where Fish & Game has removed the non-native brookies with the intent to stock presumably more-native Lahontan Cutthroat trout. I won't even get into the ongoing controversy in which non-native fish are being removed from various Sierra lakes in favor of the mountain yellow-legged frog. I've also read that most of the high altitude lakes had no fish in them originally.

There is actually a special bag limit on brook trout : ten additional fish per day may be kept, 8 inches or less. I think this is because brook trout tend to overpopulate many lakes and become stunted.


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