epic eastern seirra trip 09!

[matt duarte]

ok guys! i just got back from another epic trip to the sierras! we left wensday morning at 9am..heres a quick pic as we just got on the road
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as you all know...300 miles of desert can get kinda boring so i was just snappin pix left and right
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and at last we get to bishop!
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after a quick pit stop and fill up were on the road again mobing to rock creek campground..24 miles later we arrive to this...even the econ is screwy up here to..pay increase

but we paid it anyway lol 80$ ouch!
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as soon as we got everything setup we headed straight to the creek by our camp and right away started catching a bunch of fish! i got my first brook that was a easy 13"er! i didnt have my camera at the time so i missed out on the pic..i know bummer.. but here are a few pix from the first day.
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we ended up hiking all over the place.. we drove up to rock creek lake and started hinking down from the outlet hitting up the whole creek on the way down!
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heres my buddy curdis catching and releasing a lil brown.
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while we were hiking we saw this old cabin..it doesnt seem to be in use just a old historical thing to look at..saw writting on it with dates dating back to the 20's! couldnt see inside though...
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the next day we went on a really long hike from iris campground (i think that was the right one) anyway we hiked proly 4 miles back and found a awesome section on the creek that opened up really nicley
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i had to take a photo opp. while me and my buddy adam waited for his brother to catch up
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heres another part of the creek before we got to a small lake back in the hills
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once we got back in the hills to the lake me and adam started catchin right away!
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heres a pamarama of the small lake we found..
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after the lake we got back to camp and ate some lunch..i decided to go back out to try and get that 13" brook that i got eariler..tossed in the lure it got hit, i set the hook and ended up takin a very cold dip in the creek..and the fish got away so i took the walk of shame back to camp..
heres where i took my dip...
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later that night we had a pretty cool visitor to our camp..i never seen one this big before and this colorfull..
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the following day was a awesome one i got the biggest fish of the trip and my PB creek fish..the crappy thing was when i went to wash off the fish for its picture my digi fell out of my fly vest and went straight into the creek! i quickly took a pic before the camera took a crap...:( since my phone died...so did the fish
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so that being only the second day i was pissed i couldnt take more pix on my digi i had to buy a throw away camera...boooo i also took some pix on my cell phone that i will post in a lil bit... we also went to convict lake that was incredibly awesome! and after convict we headed up to mammoth for a awesome day and scenery..

oh! and we hiked a lil bit on the same hike me and TJ did last year..didnt hike to treasure lakes but we hit up some of the lakes on the trail....it was fun didnt catch a whole lot there just a few small ones..but we did see a HUGE easy 10lb brown swimming one of the shore lines!!! this thing was freakin huge!!! and smart, it defently made my day seeing that big of a wild fish it was amazing!..

well i defently wish my digi didnt get ruined so id have more pix to share with you guys...i hope all the throw away camera pix turn out good...there was a hell of a lot of snow up there as well..the rock teris up to treasure lakes was not climbable it was snowed over..i defently had fun shovin a hand full of snow in my buddys face when he wasnt looking haha as well as a full water bottle down the pants for payback...he was defently freezing after that hahaha...

well i hope you enjoyed it as much as i did! I cant wait to go back again...were planning a trip to yellowstone for next year!! ill post more pix from my cell !

[DccFISHerMan]

awesome man, i never been up there but want to try and stop by on r trip this weekend, cant wait!!! Beautiful pics man!

[DCCTrouserTrout]

Sick beard...

[jig fish]

looks like you had a good trip, ill be up there for my second trip this year on memorial day weekend

[tacklejunkie]

Those first ones are brownies! I only see one brookie. Those things are smart :LOL:
Good work man. Nice colors on those browns! You all have me jealous! :Envious:
Just wait till I get out there. :Twisted:

[matt duarte]

Sick beard...

haha i thought id go up there mountain man style lol!

i wish my camera didnt fall in the water..i would of had so many more pix of all the fish we caught!..we couldnt even keep count! we released all wilds and kept a few stockers..we also found so many hidden hot spots hiking in the back country simply awesome! i cant wat till i can go again...i defently want to make it back before the closer..we maped a few spots on the gps that we didnt get a chance to hit up so we can next time..

[DCCTrouserTrout]

haha i thought id go up there mountain man style lol!

i wish my camera didnt fall in the water..i would of had so many more pix of all the fish we caught!..we couldnt even keep count! we released all wilds and kept a few stockers..we also found so many hidden hot spots hiking in the back country simply awesome! i cant wat till i can go again...i defently want to make it back before the closer..we maped a few spots on the gps that we didnt get a chance to hit up so we can next time..

Hey, I know all about sacrificing my camera to the river. Remember I did it when we went up creekin' with TJ? ha ha

[matt duarte]

lol ya i defently feel your pain on that one...im hoping it will start to work again but i dout it...

[matt duarte]

heres some more pix i took from my cell after my digi went in the creek..
we all know this one..the one and only convict lake
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as i was walkin around convict and saw this...it looked like a big cacoon of some kind and had a hell of a lot of caterpillers or what have you wiggling on the out and inside..what ever it is im defently glad i saw it and didnt walk into it...
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and heres a pic i took while we were in mammoth..the waterfall in the background was awesome! snow all over and water rushing like crazy!
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[troutslayer05]

That trip look sikkkkk! I need to get up there soon. My godfather lives in starlite and the 6th pic down is his backyard. Anyway dope report!

[matt duarte]

That trip look sikkkkk! I need to get up there soon. My godfather lives in starlite and the 6th pic down is his backyard. Anyway dope report!

man i wish i can have a back yard like that! just comming back to riverside makes me said...its so beautiful up there, i could defently get used to living up there... if you can get up there id get up there! its something everyone should experience.. if people think big bear and arrowhead looks nice...the sierras make big bear look like riverside haha

[retired96]

For the life of me I can't figure out where that large wide section of water is that you took pictures of, I have never seen a section of Rock Creek that looks like that. Where the heck was it.

[tacklejunkie]

Above "the parking lot" maybe?
Was pretty wide and shallow right there before the snow even came last year end.
Little runoff I could see it getting wider.

[matt duarte]

no its not above the parking lot but ya that was a awesome section of the creek it opened up even wider into a lil lake..this section is pretty hidden.. you got to hike back a lil ways to get to it... and there were tons of hot sopts all the way up and down that section.. we proly got over 14 wilds that day...

[retired96]

I have fished Rock Creek for 50 years and still can't figure out where those pictures were taken. I can't think of anywhere from Rock Creek Lake to the 395 that looks like that. No section of Rock Creek from the lake to 395 empties into a lake, were you in the back country...

[matt duarte]

i can assure you that it is a section of rock creek..this section is above the rock creek lake but you cant see it from the road..you defently need to do some hiking..but it is a part of rock creek..

[Crawler]

Nice report!

Is the road to mesquito flats open yet??? or just to the lake???

That cabin, its above the lake but not as far as mesquito flats???

I cant find it on google earth. lol

[retired96]

i can assure you that it is a section of rock creek..this section is above the rock creek lake but you cant see it from the road..you defently need to do some hiking..but it is a part of rock creek..

That explains it, You were above the lake, I was thinking of the areas below the lake...

[bstolton]

awesome report, man I can`t wait for june to get here so I can go. Bummer about your camera, would have loved to see some more pics.How hard of a hike was it goin up above rock creek lake.Sure looks worth it.

[matt duarte]

thanks guys i defently cant wait to get back up there hopefully in a few months...
and ya the road to the flats are open i belive.. the hike isnt hard..it just goes up and down hill which sucks lol and the air is thin so its harder to breath...im a smoker though lol. the hike is defently worth it theres 7 lakes along the hike.. and there all pretty big! just make sure you bring water with you..

[Crawler]

thanks guys i defently cant wait to get back up there hopefully in a few months...
and ya the road to the flats are open i belive.. the hike isnt hard..it just goes up and down hill which sucks lol and the air is thin so its harder to breath...im a smoker though lol. the hike is defently worth it theres 7 lakes along the hike.. and there all pretty big! just make sure you bring water with you..

How far in did you guys make it?

I went the weekend of june 14th last year and we made it to the lower gems. It was snow walking up near the top. We are heading back up the weekend after memorial day, cant decide if we should hit up little lakes or not.

[matt duarte]

we just walked a mile or 2 back... the farther back we got the more snow we were seein on the ground...so we didnt go all the way up to treasure lakes like me and TJ did last year.. the rock taris is all snowed over

[Trout-Slayer77]

sweet trip bro, thanks for the report...looks like a great time up there !! some nice brownies you caught. cant wait to get up there myself. going for a week in july, i think about it every day till im there, haha. oh ya....cool moth too !!

[matt duarte]

haha thanks dude! ya that moth was insane it kicked it on our table for a hour or more.. if it was still on the table in the morning we were gonna use it for bait but it caught on to us and few away before morning lol... ya it sucked waking up in riverside after staying 5 days up there... ill be thinking about it everyday till i go back up there to haha hopefully i can get up there again before the season ends..

[Roostertail]

Looks like it was a great time of year to be up there. The scenery is nice. I can smell the pines and hear the rush of the creek. Thanks for sharing.

[matt duarte]

Looks like it was a great time of year to be up there. The scenery is nice. I can smell the pines and hear the rush of the creek. Thanks for sharing.

the rush of the creek was amazing! we camped proly no more than 50ft from the creek...put me right to sleep!