Amazing Eastern trip!!!!(pics)

[pattitude]

I headed out to Mammoth thursday night for a 3 day weekend packed with great fishing and my girlfriend's first fishing trip.
We started out hiking duck pass above lake Mary it was an exhausting hike and we went to three lakes, Arrowhead, Skelton and Barney total time 6 hours we caught fish in each lake on power worms and Pather martins
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Next lake was skelton the water was so clear I watched the trout hit my lure 40 feet away!

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The next lake is barney, over the snow pass is duck lake we just didn't have the gas for the final climb.
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Barney lower lake
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After the 6 hour hike we decided to hit up lake George for some stockers.
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Melissa, rested her feet and was rewarded with the biggest fish of the trip and her life, she drew applause as she caried her trophy around the lake!!!
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The next Day we went to the Rainbow falls and the San Joaquin Beautiful!!
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I was able to throw some dry flies with a water bobber and catch my first browns!!! It gave me goose bumps to watch the fish hit my fly...
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After that we went to the Ownes and found more fish and a nice wind.
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On the last day we hit up convict for a wide open bite we caught 30 fish in 3 hours and called it a day.
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This was a great trip, we caught fish everyehere and really lit it up at George and Convict, My girlfriend is hooked. If anyone wants any info Pm me.

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[rusty6]

epic trip you did there! i couldn't buy a bight on the owens last week! that is one monster of a fish your lady friend has there, congrats to her.

[Fisherman57]

AWESOME! :Thumbs Up:


Thanks for sharing the report and all the GREAT photos! Very cool!
And congrats to your GF.... that is one VERY NICE fish!



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[JIMMY JAM]

Yeah, there's nothing like the Sierras. Great trip and thanks for sharing the pics. Sweet catch by your girl. She's definitely a keeper! :)

[Simplyeman]

nice rod......virtually indestructible, gotta love it.

[troutdog]

Awesome report and pics, congrats on the big bow and brownies on the fly. Looks like you had an incredible trip up North! Thanks for sharing.


TD

[Badfish2]

So how much did that badboy weigh?

[sweetfish]

Those are some amazing pics. Thanks for the report, especially on Owen's river and San Jaoquin river. Looks like at Owen's river you went south of the campground. BTW you girlfriend caught a beast. Good job.

[big_mike_70]

looks like u guys had a great time...

nice fish...

nice pics...

damn fly and bubble combo gets them everytime !

[Granny Fish]

Great report! As many times as I've been up to the Sierras, I still haven't made it up to the Mammoth Lakes. Love the pictures. Looks like you both put the magnaglass to the test. ;)

[pattitude]

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4 1/2 pounds

[SoCalGuy7]

Congrats to her on the Huge fish....Must have been fun watching her catch it as well....From the looks of your smiles, I bet you'll be going back.

Awesome pictures and memories..!
SCG7

[TroutOnly]

great report and pics,, i will be trolling convict in about a week,,,T/O

[Troutman Dan]

Congrats on the trip and the personal firsts.

TMD

[Mater]

Well looks like you two had a great time. My family and I were at George the same time you were, but had no luck. Great fish for the G/F.

[BigGameHunter]

Great job.. Epic first time for the little lady.... Congrats

Great pics.

BGH

[Carrie]

Beautiful pics and great report! I really miss living up there!! I am not surprised you were successful with panther martins. I experimented with them. Various colors and even added different scents. The trout loved em! I am very surprised that you caught 30 fish at Convict. I spent 7 hrs there once and only caught one big rainbow. That is great! Not all the tourists have fished the place out yet! The sierras is my fav place to fish in Cali! Nice!

[cjschock]

nice job on the fish, the girlfriend always has to catch the biggest.

[Trout-Slayer77]

awesome report and pics !!! congrats on some nice fish !!! those backcountry lakes look beautiful !!

[ryanerb]

What are some of the details on catching the fish at George and Mary? What did you catch the big one on? How bout all those fish at convict? I was up there and didn't do quite as good you...

[pattitude]

I caught most my fish everywhere on powerworms, orange peal & night crawlers & berkly garlic spray. At convict it just was lucky timeing, we moved around all day somtimes there just hungry.

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[one_leg]

Congratulations Melissa!!!

Thanks for the post.

O_L

[sirvtec81]

Congrats to the both of you..... That rainbow sure is a beauty! I havent been up to the sierras but photos like those will get me making some plans real quick!: )

[tacklejunkie]

Sweet outing.
My GF is talking about Mammoth again when she gets home from Florida to escape the Socal heat. I'm definitely going to have to hit some of those lakes up in Mammoth when we go. Thanks for the pics and report! I bet your GF was stoked on that monster trout! She'll be hooked now :cool:

[steve092]

Congrats on that trophy!

Nice browns!

[chivo]

Wow! that looks like it would get anyone hooked for life. I wish my girl could get hooked.