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Made the trek to a lake high in the white clouds... out of respect for locals and people who might view this as "their spot" I'm not going to name it(although I have previously). But I will give you pictures []

So I looked at the Idaho F&G website to find some good stocking histories and this lake had it, for golden and cutthroats. I hiked there last year without a fishing rod, only to be greeted by dozens of 12-16 inch trout cruising the shallows. I swore I would return.

So my dad and I put the 4 wheelers in the pickups and headed up the East Fork. Turned onto a dirt road and started up to the access point. Once there it was a steep 1300 ft descent to the lake. I was up for it but my dad was not, so he just hung out with a book halfway down the steep scree slope. Once I got to the lake I had only about an hour to fish, I ended up catching 5 trout but only worked about 1/3 of the shoreline, and didn't even fish the two inlets that were there. I was using a spinning set up with a green roostertail lure. Saw a few fry follow the lure in, must have been from last year's planting. Also a lot of bites and followers. The hike back up was brutal... high elevation + sharp incline on a game trail. I was very winded.

Some pictures:

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https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-s...1583_n.jpg

^ Is this a cutt/golden hybrid??

https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-s...6726_n.jpg

https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-s...0319_n.jpg
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Cool post. thanks for sharing ~
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Thanks for sharing and for the report. That one looks like a straight up cut to me.
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Thanks for sharing. Nice pics. Mike
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Thanks for the report. Love the fish eye look. Is that your lens or Photoshop?
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Fish eye look is from the GoPro camera, shot on the "wide" setting 170 degree POV. Comes in handy for making fish look bigger than they really are []

And it's cool to get the entire panorama in the shot with such beautiful landscape.
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Beautiful lake and nice cuttys. If that lake were full of fat brooks I would be groveling for info. Still an awesome place though.
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Straight Cutty. They are just finishing up spawning so they have all the pretty colors on them. Good lookin fish
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Great post.Thanks for sharing.Have hunted that country but not fished it enough.
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Probably a cutthroat. The cutts planted in the area are Westslope cutthroats and are colored a little differently that the Yellowstone cuts most of us see in southeastern Idaho. The Westslopes have some red on their bellies.

DeeCee
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Thanks for the replies and ID help guys!
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