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  • in reply to: newbie question #90373
    Brian Curtis
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      It sounds like you are off to a great start. Keep doing exactly what you are doing. The lakes you go to will almost always have fish. Fish are not stocked in the national parks so you are much more likely to find fishless lakes there. Your best bet is to go places that look like they’d be fun places to visit. You’ll find fish and a fun place to visit 😀

      But the factors you mentioned do make a difference. You’ll find fish across the full range of any factors you can mention, but they make can make a difference in the kind of fishing you’ll find. In general, higher elevation lakes have shorter growing season and fewer groceries so fish grow more slowly and can’t grow as large as in lower elevation lakes. Shallow lakes are more productive then deep lakes. The flipside is that big, deep high elevation lakes are normally more scenic then small, shallow low elevation lakes.

      in reply to: Lake Kulla Kulla #90375
      Brian Curtis
      Keymaster

        @TheLoneHiker wrote:

        Are there fish in Lake Kulla Kulla ?

        Yep.

        I fished at the ‘pond’ or Little Lake Kulla Kulla and
        caught nothing and saw no rises.

        How cold was the water? If it hasn’t warmed up enough the fish won’t be active and might now show. How long did you fish?

        I didnt wander around and down to the big lake when I was there
        and am wondering if I should have…

        Always fish everything :fishing: :caught:

        in reply to: fishing vest vs chest pack #90324
        Brian Curtis
        Keymaster

          I have a homemade vest. It is a regular vest but made out of lightweit ripstop. Better would be a vest made out of Cuban Fiber. My vest is extremely functional. But it encourages me to bring too much stuff and is still heavier then I’d like.

          in reply to: Tapatalk #90133
          Brian Curtis
          Keymaster

            I added Tapatalk support. Search for “Trail Blazers” or “Hilakers” from within the Tapatalk app on your phone or iPad.

            Here’s the standard cut and paste advertisement they give you to paste in the forum:

            Tapatalk is a mobile forum app for iPhone / Android and soon to be on Blackberry and Nokia. Tapatalk supports vBulletin (3.x and 4.x) and phpBB forums and forum owner can activate this service for free. Tapatalk supports all the usual forum functions plus full screen image viewing, image upload, caching (less reload), private messaging, all these features are accessible in just a few simple taps.

            Tapatalk for iPhone:
            Showing New and Unread Posts:

            Full Thread Viewing and Pagination Support:

            See Who’s Online:

            Reply to Post and Image Upload:

            Some of the large forums activated Tapatalk support


            Tapatalk for Android

            Total Android Look and Feel

            Same feature set as iPhone:

            Quickly Reply to a conversation:


            Latest and Unread Posts indicator and multi-tabs support:

            Full screen image support – support landscape mode also

            Check out http://www.tapatalk.com for more information!

            in reply to: Tapatalk #90132
            Brian Curtis
            Keymaster

              That looks like it might be very nice. I’ll look into it.

              in reply to: 4 day hiking trip with lots of good fishing #90007
              Brian Curtis
              Keymaster

                Are you thinking of car camping with day hikes every day? Or hiking all the days?

                in reply to: Hey everyone…I’m new here… #89987
                Brian Curtis
                Keymaster

                  @onthefly wrote:

                  Can I pay my yearly dues at the next meeting to become a full member?

                  Yep, just come to the next Hi-Laker meeting and pay your dues and you’ll be a full member. Meetings are held the third Wednesday of the month.

                  in reply to: Hey everyone…I’m new here… #89983
                  Brian Curtis
                  Keymaster

                    HI Drew, welcome to the forum. I haven’t been to Bengston in a long time so hopefully someone who has been there more recently will chime in with some better information.

                    It is only about 15 miles from Ballard to Mercer Island 😀

                    in reply to: ‘View active topics’ is empty #89758
                    Brian Curtis
                    Keymaster

                      Exactly. Sorry about the confusing explanation.

                      in reply to: ‘View active topics’ is empty #89756
                      Brian Curtis
                      Keymaster

                        Perfect. Looks like it is back to working as expected. Thanks for the update.

                        in reply to: ‘View active topics’ is empty #89754
                        Brian Curtis
                        Keymaster

                          Oh my gosh, my favorite button was broken and I didn’t even notice.

                          It turns out they added a new feature. We can now exclude forums from the active list. But they all defaulted to off so I had to go set all the forums so they would display under View active topics.

                          Thanks for pointing out the problem.

                          in reply to: Board update #85844
                          Brian Curtis
                          Keymaster

                            Hopefully, it is fixed. But you should go try out a better browser like Chrome, Safari, Opera, or Firefox. They are all faster and offer better standards compliance then IE.

                            in reply to: Board update #85841
                            Brian Curtis
                            Keymaster

                              I updated the board software today, pi day (3.14), 2010. Let me know if you see any issues.

                              in reply to: Outcome on fish stocking in Alpine lakes? #89626
                              Brian Curtis
                              Keymaster

                                The controversy is only in NCNP. Stocking is still allowed in National Forests. Fish were stocked on all federal lands until the mid-seventies. At that time that National Park Service decided fish should not be stocked unless it was to help with recovery of an endangered species. So fish have not been stocked in Olympic or Mt Rainier NPs since that time. But NCNP was different because it had been created in 1969 and during the hearings to create the park they specifically promised that fish stocking would continue. So fish continued to be stocked, though the Park Service didn’t like it. Then in the eighties the contentious issue came to a head when NCNP decided to ban fish stocking and WDFW threatened to air plant a bunch of lakes anyway. They ended up signing a series of memorandums of understanding to allow continued limited fish stocking in a subset of lakes that had been historically stocked. In the meantime they were sued by the North Cascades Conservation Council and as part of their settlement agreed to study the effects of stock fish in park high lakes. That study took over a decade and ended up determining that fish stocked or reproducing in high densities can surpress or eliminate populations of long-toed salamander and alter zooplankton populations (basically, the larger species get grazed off). But they also found that trout stocked in low densities had no measurable effect on native species.

                                That study culminated in an EIS covering fish stocking in the park. The preferred alternative was for continued fish stocking of low density non-reproducing fish and rehabilitation of lakes with overpopulation problems. But they inserted some monkey business. They said that they wanted clarification from Congress that their intention was to allow fish stocking when they created the park and if they didn’t get that then fish stocking would be stopped and they would start to eliminate spawning populations. And that’s where we sit right now. Fish stocking has been banned until we can get that bill through Congress and they started trying to poison problem populations in the Blum Lakes last September.

                                in reply to: Outcome on fish stocking in Alpine lakes? #89624
                                Brian Curtis
                                Keymaster

                                  As it stands right now fish cannot be stocked in the North Cascades National Park. A bill to allow fish stocking in the park passed the house and is currently in committee in the Senate (H.R. 2430). A committee hearing was held last July, but so far nothing else has happened.

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