Badfish2
09-29-2008, 07:59 PM
Wanted to get a shot at some fish before the closing trip I'm going to take October, so I headed up to Bishop. Weather was nice, not too hot during the day up in the mountains above 7000 ft. Started the trip off with Intake 2
Intake 2 report:
Fishing was slow, I didn't see one limit come out. I managed a few fish including this nice brown but not until it was almost dark. During the day, it was more or less weak. Tons of fisherman lined the lake, saw people throwing just about everything out there without much result. I did manage a couple in the few hours I was there. Caught this one on a Fire Tiger Thomas Bouyant, it hit about 10 feet out from the dam area
http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k271/Feta40/BigFishTripSept2008170.jpg
http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k271/Feta40/BigFishTripSept2008168.jpg
Upper and Lower Twin Bridgeport:
I headed up to Little Virginia to do some fishing, but found out they don't take ATM at the lake, so I had to go to Bridgeport to get money. While in town I decided it was a good idea to check out upper lower twin for my October trip. I threw out CD 9 Rapalas, Thomas Bouyants, Trout Teasers, Power Bait, and I got :Skunk:d there.. :Sad: Although I didn't put much effort into it, I mostly just wanted to check out the lake, In hind sight I should have fished the inlets or outlet areas of the lake. I'll be back though, :Secret: Pics of Upper Twin, water was clear clear clear
http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k271/Feta40/BigFishTripSept2008172.jpg
Finally though, My efforts of this trip paid off. After getting the skunk from Upper Lower twin, I headed back to Little Viriginia to rent that row boat and see what happens.
http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k271/Feta40/BigFishTripSept2008021.jpgWeather was cool, no wind at all and there were quite a few tubers on the lake. I started out in the back of the lake near the rock slide, and it was tough going. My famous Cyclone Thomas Bouyant tear drop shaped lures were doing nothing.:Angry: I did get hit a few times, but it was nowhere near the 40+ fish in 2 hours I caught there on that lure last time. I didn't give up though, I headed back to the left rear portion of the lake in front of the spot where a lot of bait fisherman had been all day. Figured the scent of all that bait in the water over there was probably attracting the fish over there. I had already tried Rapalas, Bouyants, Rainbow PB, Yellow Sierra Gold, Trout Teasers in Pink, Brown, Green etc with no luck at all. Once I got to the new spot, I decided to bust out the Pink Garlic flavored Zeke's bait. Threw it out and initially caught nothing, reeled it in slow to put something else on and I saw I had a chaser, the fish hit the bait. That gave me :Idea:s so I threw it back out there. Caught a few more, and it got better from there.
Reflection on Little Virgina
http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k271/Feta40/BigFishTripSept2008176.jpg
At 4pmish I was determined to get the action on the bouyants I had before, but decided to put on a BS rig of a split shot and treble with a 2 ft leader and more of the Pink Zekes in order to have pole out while I was riggin the new lures on. Casted it out about 10 feet from the boat in about 3 feet of water. I almost forgot about the pole when I heard a splash behind me.. I had a fish on. :???: When I picked up the rod, it was pulling hard, I mean really hard. I loosed the drag a lot and the line was singing... I knew the fish was pretty nice so I let him swim. He just about spooled me, literally swam across the lake and finally tired out. About 10 minutes laker I netted him. I managed a 4lb 3oz Alper .. my PB in the sierra. :Big Grin: I'm definitely going to try the pink floating bait again at Little Virginia...Here's the beast here..
I'm photoshopped out of the pic though:ROFL:
http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k271/Feta40/BigFishTripSept2008017b.jpg
another pic
http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k271/Feta40/4lber.jpg
Lone Pine Creek
On the way home, I wan ted to fish lone pink creek a little, and ended up at the pool not too far from the pinic grounds at the top of the portal road. Here are pics of the lake and the bows I caught. They all hit on Split shot rigs with #18 treble hooks loaded with a single yellow salmon egg. I caught 5 and bailed after that to beat traffic.
http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k271/Feta40/lpcreekfish.jpg
http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k271/Feta40/lpcreeklake.jpg
Fall colors were amazing up there, here's a few shots of that. Head up soon though, they won't last long.
http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k271/Feta40/BigFishTripSept2008169.jpg
http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k271/Feta40/BigFishTripSept2008173.jpg
Intake 2 report:
Fishing was slow, I didn't see one limit come out. I managed a few fish including this nice brown but not until it was almost dark. During the day, it was more or less weak. Tons of fisherman lined the lake, saw people throwing just about everything out there without much result. I did manage a couple in the few hours I was there. Caught this one on a Fire Tiger Thomas Bouyant, it hit about 10 feet out from the dam area
http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k271/Feta40/BigFishTripSept2008170.jpg
http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k271/Feta40/BigFishTripSept2008168.jpg
Upper and Lower Twin Bridgeport:
I headed up to Little Virginia to do some fishing, but found out they don't take ATM at the lake, so I had to go to Bridgeport to get money. While in town I decided it was a good idea to check out upper lower twin for my October trip. I threw out CD 9 Rapalas, Thomas Bouyants, Trout Teasers, Power Bait, and I got :Skunk:d there.. :Sad: Although I didn't put much effort into it, I mostly just wanted to check out the lake, In hind sight I should have fished the inlets or outlet areas of the lake. I'll be back though, :Secret: Pics of Upper Twin, water was clear clear clear
http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k271/Feta40/BigFishTripSept2008172.jpg
Finally though, My efforts of this trip paid off. After getting the skunk from Upper Lower twin, I headed back to Little Viriginia to rent that row boat and see what happens.
http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k271/Feta40/BigFishTripSept2008021.jpgWeather was cool, no wind at all and there were quite a few tubers on the lake. I started out in the back of the lake near the rock slide, and it was tough going. My famous Cyclone Thomas Bouyant tear drop shaped lures were doing nothing.:Angry: I did get hit a few times, but it was nowhere near the 40+ fish in 2 hours I caught there on that lure last time. I didn't give up though, I headed back to the left rear portion of the lake in front of the spot where a lot of bait fisherman had been all day. Figured the scent of all that bait in the water over there was probably attracting the fish over there. I had already tried Rapalas, Bouyants, Rainbow PB, Yellow Sierra Gold, Trout Teasers in Pink, Brown, Green etc with no luck at all. Once I got to the new spot, I decided to bust out the Pink Garlic flavored Zeke's bait. Threw it out and initially caught nothing, reeled it in slow to put something else on and I saw I had a chaser, the fish hit the bait. That gave me :Idea:s so I threw it back out there. Caught a few more, and it got better from there.
Reflection on Little Virgina
http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k271/Feta40/BigFishTripSept2008176.jpg
At 4pmish I was determined to get the action on the bouyants I had before, but decided to put on a BS rig of a split shot and treble with a 2 ft leader and more of the Pink Zekes in order to have pole out while I was riggin the new lures on. Casted it out about 10 feet from the boat in about 3 feet of water. I almost forgot about the pole when I heard a splash behind me.. I had a fish on. :???: When I picked up the rod, it was pulling hard, I mean really hard. I loosed the drag a lot and the line was singing... I knew the fish was pretty nice so I let him swim. He just about spooled me, literally swam across the lake and finally tired out. About 10 minutes laker I netted him. I managed a 4lb 3oz Alper .. my PB in the sierra. :Big Grin: I'm definitely going to try the pink floating bait again at Little Virginia...Here's the beast here..
I'm photoshopped out of the pic though:ROFL:
http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k271/Feta40/BigFishTripSept2008017b.jpg
another pic
http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k271/Feta40/4lber.jpg
Lone Pine Creek
On the way home, I wan ted to fish lone pink creek a little, and ended up at the pool not too far from the pinic grounds at the top of the portal road. Here are pics of the lake and the bows I caught. They all hit on Split shot rigs with #18 treble hooks loaded with a single yellow salmon egg. I caught 5 and bailed after that to beat traffic.
http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k271/Feta40/lpcreekfish.jpg
http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k271/Feta40/lpcreeklake.jpg
Fall colors were amazing up there, here's a few shots of that. Head up soon though, they won't last long.
http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k271/Feta40/BigFishTripSept2008169.jpg
http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k271/Feta40/BigFishTripSept2008173.jpg