Eastern Sierras 6/9 to 6/10

[E.A.R.G.]

Started heading up there at 2 AM from Montebello running off of 1 hour of sleep. Took a 5 hour energy and made it safe and sound to bishop area by 7 a.m including a few stops. my 2 friends sound asleep, didn't even know what was going on. (THE WIND WAS HOWLING! almost blown off the road a couple times)

tried a little creek at bishop for one large mouth bass and made the drive up to convict lake where we would stay the night.

Tried to pitch the tent first but the tent I borrowed from my friend had no tent poles. ARGHH!! opted to sleep in the car at night, but we had the whole day to fish in front of us!

Weather.com said 18-20 mph winds but mann.. the gusts would reach 40mph sometimes. It was RIDICULOUS wind!
I still decided to tube it, gave it about an hour on the tube kicking my little heart out but couldn't do it. Came back to shore soaked in ice cold water. We still managed to knock out three.

We tried driving up to twin but the wind was WORSE there. Went back down to owens. the scenery was gorgeous!! the river was flowing HUGE!!!
Every creek we saw happened to become small ponds due to the high rate of snow melt off.

Managed over a limits worth of rainbows and one ugly unidentified fish at the owens til we headed back up to camp.
cooked dinner. DELICIOUS (must see picture!) haha and we decided to do a couple hours at convict at night. the night bite was pretty solid, landing quite a few browns (mostly released) and a few more stocker rainbows. the wind had died a little which made this possible.

Crashed in our "toyota tent" (this was the rent a car... don't know if you guys remember my last report, my car got wrecked when I got back from fishing. Got this toyota rent a car with awesome mileage... which made this trip possible)


Morning came, wind was worse than yesterday. packed up headed down south to calmer weather. hit a few ponds creeks and lakes for some ones and twos everywhere we went. bite was never solid, we couldnt find the fish, we opted for breakfast at paiutes casino. had their awesome steak breakfast for 3.99 and won some cash then headed back out.
hit a couple more spots for more 1s and 2s and our last stop was the honey hole. Caught a ton of beautiful holdovers/naturals at the last spot. full fins and nice colors.

oh, got stopped by DFG at one spot which was cool. did the coolor/trunk/license check. very polite and informative.

enough reading, i'll let the pics do the talking.



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chris with a nice holdover


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30 feet lower than what I'm used to.

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ugly fish at owens. what is this?!

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chris stuck one at convict

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philip scored a nice brown at owens

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another nice holdover

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market style!

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a Jared sighting!

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"ice" cold pepsi

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cute little brown

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nice finned holdover!

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gorgeous brown!

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this is apparently what army men do when they get their rig caught in the tree

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can't get much happier than this! look at that wind!

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so much snow in June! he actually slipped and fell down this thing. it was fantastic! I got it on video too!

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couldn't have asked for better company!

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awesome food! awesome company! awesome place!

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the night bite picked up some!

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look at the fins on this holdover!

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free money! w00t!

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look how low south lake is
eventually later that day, a peninsula thingamjigger became an island. lucky philip didnt stay or else he woulda had to get heli lifted off the island.
or rent a boat.

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awesome. just awesome. be back there in 2 weeks. til then.. thanks for reading!
EARG

oh yea.. returned the rental after 3 weeks. their expression was priceless!!!
2900 miles in 3 weeks. car covered in owens sand. priceless.

[retired96]

Great pics, the fish you caught in the Owens was a sucker fish, a worthless fish. Upper Owens looked like its running high, I'm leaving tomorrow for a week up there..

[cpt_majestic]

Wow south lake is low, I've never seen it like that..Great report.....48 hours until we leave

[JAMACAWAS]

The mystery fish appears to be a chub. Sucker fish have "human" looking lips on the bottom, like sturgeon.

[Team Shocker]

It's a Mountain Whitefish. Our crew has managed to catch at least one of those on each of our last 4 or 5 trips. Thanks for the report!

[shinbob]

Definitely a Tui Chub. This site has an excellent database of fish info and pictures:

http://nas.er.usgs.gov/queries/SpSimpleSearch.aspx

We catch them all the time in June and Gull lakes. June in particular is swarming with them, you can see large schools of fry in the shallows. One time my wife kept one (out of Gull lake, so it's not one of the threatened subspecies) and cooked it up. Suprisingly it tasted pretty good, very white flesh, but too many bones for my liking.

[Fishbones]

Awesome report eric, super cool pics,.,.almost felt like i was there,.,.lets fish soon bro!!

[BrandonFish]

That looks awsome! those are some gorgeous trout!:Envious: Nice pics and report Hope you get em this week like you did!