matt duarte
05-17-2009, 08:02 PM
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
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f172/oneUPfabrication/101_0487.jpg
as you all know...300 miles of desert can get kinda boring so i was just snappin pix left and right
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f172/oneUPfabrication/101_0488.jpg
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f172/oneUPfabrication/101_0489.jpg
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f172/oneUPfabrication/101_0491.jpg
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f172/oneUPfabrication/101_0493.jpg
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f172/oneUPfabrication/101_0496.jpg
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f172/oneUPfabrication/101_0498.jpg
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f172/oneUPfabrication/101_0499.jpg
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f172/oneUPfabrication/101_0500.jpg
and at last we get to bishop!
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f172/oneUPfabrication/101_0494.jpg
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f172/oneUPfabrication/101_0495.jpg
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!
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f172/oneUPfabrication/101_0501.jpg
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.
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f172/oneUPfabrication/101_0503.jpg
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f172/oneUPfabrication/101_0505.jpg
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f172/oneUPfabrication/101_0506.jpg
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f172/oneUPfabrication/101_0507.jpg
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f172/oneUPfabrication/101_0508.jpg
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!
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f172/oneUPfabrication/101_0511.jpg
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f172/oneUPfabrication/101_0512.jpg
heres my buddy curdis catching and releasing a lil brown.
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f172/oneUPfabrication/101_0513.jpg
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...
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f172/oneUPfabrication/101_0514.jpg
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
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f172/oneUPfabrication/101_0515.jpg
i had to take a photo opp. while me and my buddy adam waited for his brother to catch up
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f172/oneUPfabrication/101_0518.jpg
heres another part of the creek before we got to a small lake back in the hills
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f172/oneUPfabrication/101_0519.jpg
once we got back in the hills to the lake me and adam started catchin right away!
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f172/oneUPfabrication/101_0522.jpg
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f172/oneUPfabrication/101_0523.jpg
heres a pamarama of the small lake we found..
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f172/oneUPfabrication/101_0524.jpg
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...
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f172/oneUPfabrication/101_0526.jpg
later that night we had a pretty cool visitor to our camp..i never seen one this big before and this colorfull..
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f172/oneUPfabrication/101_0531.jpg
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f172/oneUPfabrication/101_0533.jpg
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
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f172/oneUPfabrication/101_0536-1.jpg
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 !
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f172/oneUPfabrication/101_0487.jpg
as you all know...300 miles of desert can get kinda boring so i was just snappin pix left and right
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f172/oneUPfabrication/101_0488.jpg
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f172/oneUPfabrication/101_0489.jpg
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f172/oneUPfabrication/101_0491.jpg
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f172/oneUPfabrication/101_0493.jpg
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f172/oneUPfabrication/101_0496.jpg
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f172/oneUPfabrication/101_0498.jpg
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f172/oneUPfabrication/101_0499.jpg
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f172/oneUPfabrication/101_0500.jpg
and at last we get to bishop!
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f172/oneUPfabrication/101_0494.jpg
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f172/oneUPfabrication/101_0495.jpg
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!
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f172/oneUPfabrication/101_0501.jpg
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.
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f172/oneUPfabrication/101_0503.jpg
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f172/oneUPfabrication/101_0505.jpg
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f172/oneUPfabrication/101_0506.jpg
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f172/oneUPfabrication/101_0507.jpg
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f172/oneUPfabrication/101_0508.jpg
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!
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f172/oneUPfabrication/101_0511.jpg
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f172/oneUPfabrication/101_0512.jpg
heres my buddy curdis catching and releasing a lil brown.
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f172/oneUPfabrication/101_0513.jpg
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...
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f172/oneUPfabrication/101_0514.jpg
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
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f172/oneUPfabrication/101_0515.jpg
i had to take a photo opp. while me and my buddy adam waited for his brother to catch up
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f172/oneUPfabrication/101_0518.jpg
heres another part of the creek before we got to a small lake back in the hills
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f172/oneUPfabrication/101_0519.jpg
once we got back in the hills to the lake me and adam started catchin right away!
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f172/oneUPfabrication/101_0522.jpg
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f172/oneUPfabrication/101_0523.jpg
heres a pamarama of the small lake we found..
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f172/oneUPfabrication/101_0524.jpg
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...
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f172/oneUPfabrication/101_0526.jpg
later that night we had a pretty cool visitor to our camp..i never seen one this big before and this colorfull..
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f172/oneUPfabrication/101_0531.jpg
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f172/oneUPfabrication/101_0533.jpg
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
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f172/oneUPfabrication/101_0536-1.jpg
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 !