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In addition, I use 4 lb mono like Brian. Accept when I’m fishing for kingfish awards ?, then I use 6 lb fire line. I’ve fished eightmile for close to a decade looking for “Walter” and I had 4 lb mono break twice on me trying to real up from the depths.
I have better luck with spoons then spinners. I like the ones that are more cupped in the front. The extra wobble action attracts more fish then the flat crocodile spoons in my opinion. I find I have better luck with spoons and spinners when there isn’t a recent bug hatch. If so, I either have my fly rod or use a casting bubble with fly.
I recently read Gary Lafontaine’s book. I found it quite interesting. It has me considering pack goats in the future.
Where are you located on the eastside? I started fishing high lakes about 10 years ago. I started off going to very popular lakes judging by how pretty the pictures where on NWhiker.com trip reports. I tend to stare at maps for a long while and curiousity got the better of me as I became more and more intrigued with random blue spots on the topo maps.
I would suggest checking the WDFW website Brian linked for stocking years and then doing some searches to see if the lake is pretty.
I try to focus first on lakes that are beautiful, then rarely visited, and lastly that were stocked 3-6 years ago. 3 years if I want the highest likelihood of catching fish (in the 10-13″ category). If I’m in the mood to try and catch a big fish, I’ll go to a lake rarely visited that was stocked 6-7 years ago. However, this get’s me skunked more often then not. It’s always nice to find a route with several lakes stocked at different intervals, that way you have the chance to catch a lunker at a lake with 5-7 year old fish but have the reliability of a lake with 3-4 year old fish. YMMV
Good to know. I’m not a TB, nor can I attend the meetings, but it would be fun to tag along if anyone wants company next year stocking those. I’m sure there are plenty that need catching up.
On another note, I’m a little confused what the difference is between the NCNP and the Lake Chelan National Recreational area in regards to access, stocking, and hunting.
I once got the crap scared out of me by one of those balloons. Going cross country I cam across a cool looking cave in a rockfield. Curiousity got the best out of me and I took a quick look inside the shallow cave. I saw what looked liked a space blanket with a human figure underneath. I thought, “oh great, I get to be the guy who finds some person missing for a couple weeks.” I flipped it over to find it was a HUGE helium balloon laying on a quite convincing arrangment of rocks.
I would extend the question to rock cairns. I don’t really care for the idea of flagging. I have, however, come to appreciate a few rock cairns at times. Sometimes when going over very rocky terrain you have the option of going three different ways. None of which you can tell the end-game and for which a map won’t help with contour lines on 40′ intervals. In places, I would have spend a lot of time doubling back without cairns.
What’s the difference in my opinion? SMALL rock cairns will disappear after a few years. They tend to be used in rocky terrain. Flagging is man-made and attached to trees where orienteering isn’t quite as hard.
This is an interesting thread. By any chance do you have a measurement for Lake Elsey above the White River in the Glacier Peak Wilderness? It seemed so very clear and deep to me. I would throw a lure out and let it sink for a very, very long time and then real it up as fast as I could to watch fish swim straight up from the deep.
Mark
@Brian Curtis wrote:
I had an idea about that mushroom, but when I looked up the details I realized I was wrong. It is a coral mushroom of some kind, but beyond that I can’t identify it.
I think I found the name of it: Hericium americanum, AKA Bear’s Head, icicle musroom, or Lion’s Mane.
Not to be confused with Cauliflower mushroom.
What is the coral looking fungus I see you have a picture of? I noticed a few of those on the White River trail a two weeks ago.
Do you have to be a member to go on stocking trips? What requirement must be met?
Do you guys have a standard for “regularly attending meetings”? How about every other?
That’s interesting, something else I learned from this site. I caught two trout at eightmile lake and when I put them in my frying pan one was really red and the other really white.
good to know, How do you find out if they have scuds? Just watch the lake bottom? Or would I have to find it in the stomach contents of previously caught fish?
