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2007 Golden Trout Hunt

Day 1: Sunday July 29th 2007:  My cousin Derek, my parents and I left my house at about 4:00AM headed for Reno, Nevada.  The first day was spent almost entirely on the road, until we arrived in Reno at around 4:00PM.  Once we got to Reno my cousin and I went and got our fishing licenses and some last minute supplies and called it a day. Below:  A lake in the Oregon Cascades on the way to Reno. Day 2:  Monday July 30th 2007:  My cousin Derek and I set out early in the morning on our own for a few days of fishing for native trout in the California Sierras.  The first fish that we had decided to go after was the Lahontan Cutthroat as it was the closest to Reno.  My research and some help from a fellow trout hunter from California had led me to decide to fish a small stream high in the Sierras above Lake Tahoe.  We arrived at the trailhead at around 8:00AM, ate some breakfast and started hiking.  We found the trail into this spot a little hard to follow, and got turned around once, but ended up find our way to the stream in the end.  The stream was very small where the trail crossed it, but a couple of seconds of poking around confirmed that it held Lahontan Cutthroat and so we started fishing. Above:  A view of the Sierras near the trailhead (Left); A lake that we could see from the trail (Right) Below:  My Cousin Derek casting to some cutthroat (Left);  Derek with a nice stream resident Lahontan Cutthroat (Right). We fished the stream for a couple of hours, both using Royal PMX's, and as long as the fish didn't see us they were very willing to bite.  However at the slightest disturbance, the fish would dart under cover and refuse to hit anything.  Derek ended up catching the largest fish at around 11 or 12 inches and at around 12:30 we began our hike out. Above:  A beautiful Lahontan Cutthroat that took a Royal PMX (Left);  The meadows along the stream (Right). Below:  The top of the pass that the trail crossed. After the Lahontan Cutthroat hike, we hit the road for where we would be camping for the night on the edge of the Golden Trout Wilderness area.  The drive was pretty uneventful until we got to Lone Pine and headed back up into the Sierras.  We camped at Horseshoe Meadows about 9,000 feet up in the Sierras after driving up one of the hairiest roads that I have ever seen.  We set up the tent with the last few rays of sunlight and hit the hay for a big day of hiking and fishing the next day. Below:  Me in front of Mount Whitney and the southern sierras (Left); The view from half up Horseshoe Meadow road  (Right). End of Day 2: Continue to Day 3.