07-17-2016, 03:58 PM
My young men's calling is a great blessing to me, it gives me a great excuse to still go camping and do a little fishing while I'm there... This past week we went to the Wind Rivers for our 2016 summer camp... We started from the east side of the range and tried a new area with the hopes of big fish and beautiful scenery... Well the scenery was all that, however, the fish were small brookies in every lake we hit....
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We spent the first two days clearing trail and packing in, then the fishing rods came out on day 3
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We took a walk about and hit four or five lakes and I managed to catch at least ten fish in each lake... It was really fun, even though the fish were small, they still hit like freight trains...
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At a little known and unpopular lake, I had my most fun... It was beautiful, and the brookies were ferocious...
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Then we treked on to the land of golden trout.... But no one was home, only the brookies again...
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Well there was another golden lake not far away so we started off for that one, but on the way we had a river crossing and oops, I forgot my wading shoes, so I ended up bear footing it.... Man I have wimpy feet... Anyway we ended up starting to play with the river brookies and the next thing ya know we were too late in the day to make it to my desired target and still get out... So we started to head for a second favorite hope for this trip, but ran out of time for that one too... So we ended up 1.5 miles short of both hopes of this trip... Little did I know that, that would be my only attempt at getting that close to those spots... The next day everyone was dead from the 12 mile hike with 1800 vert. the day before so we stuck around base camp...
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Which wasn't all bad, it was pretty and had lots of brookies, and some great cliff diving locations...
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Plus I got a chance to try my new ride and the T-pod sonar phone, which the guys at Vexilar rushed back to me after the rapid repair, and I picked up the morning as we were leaving from my local UPS... Anyway, the system worked great!!! Seen lots of fish near the bottom, and was able to get on them and catch fish... Didn't know those lakes are over 70' deep... But no big fish could be found....
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Anyway the crews became restless and decided to head for home one day early, so I was never to return to the deep Winds that I so wanted to fish... Ended up having a great trip, only 121 fish this year... In fact the last morning they came and picked me up at the lake on a horse and said it's time to go as I was landing my 29th of the day.... Sad to say sooo long to such a beautiful place...
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But I'll be back.... Thank goodness I lost those 35 lbs or I wouldn't have made the hikes this time, it was brutal, but so worth it... I love this spot and the chance to work with a great group of young men and leaders.... Later J
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We spent the first two days clearing trail and packing in, then the fishing rods came out on day 3
[inline wind216.JPG]
We took a walk about and hit four or five lakes and I managed to catch at least ten fish in each lake... It was really fun, even though the fish were small, they still hit like freight trains...
[inline wind316.JPG]
At a little known and unpopular lake, I had my most fun... It was beautiful, and the brookies were ferocious...
[inline wind416.JPG]
Then we treked on to the land of golden trout.... But no one was home, only the brookies again...
[inline wind516.JPG]
Well there was another golden lake not far away so we started off for that one, but on the way we had a river crossing and oops, I forgot my wading shoes, so I ended up bear footing it.... Man I have wimpy feet... Anyway we ended up starting to play with the river brookies and the next thing ya know we were too late in the day to make it to my desired target and still get out... So we started to head for a second favorite hope for this trip, but ran out of time for that one too... So we ended up 1.5 miles short of both hopes of this trip... Little did I know that, that would be my only attempt at getting that close to those spots... The next day everyone was dead from the 12 mile hike with 1800 vert. the day before so we stuck around base camp...
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Which wasn't all bad, it was pretty and had lots of brookies, and some great cliff diving locations...
[inline Wind716.JPG]
Plus I got a chance to try my new ride and the T-pod sonar phone, which the guys at Vexilar rushed back to me after the rapid repair, and I picked up the morning as we were leaving from my local UPS... Anyway, the system worked great!!! Seen lots of fish near the bottom, and was able to get on them and catch fish... Didn't know those lakes are over 70' deep... But no big fish could be found....
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Anyway the crews became restless and decided to head for home one day early, so I was never to return to the deep Winds that I so wanted to fish... Ended up having a great trip, only 121 fish this year... In fact the last morning they came and picked me up at the lake on a horse and said it's time to go as I was landing my 29th of the day.... Sad to say sooo long to such a beautiful place...
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But I'll be back.... Thank goodness I lost those 35 lbs or I wouldn't have made the hikes this time, it was brutal, but so worth it... I love this spot and the chance to work with a great group of young men and leaders.... Later J
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