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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Wlfgng on August 09, 2002, 10:37:21 AM
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12,000' that is.
(http://www.nick-tucker.com/LostManLake.jpg)
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Originally posted by Wlfgng
12,000' that is.
(http://www.nick-tucker.com/LostManLake.jpg)
Salida is near there? I recognize the peaks of some of the "Fourteeners"
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Did ya ever read Chuck Yeager's account of how he illegally stocked golden trout in the Sierra's of California? IIRC it lead to the worst crash of his career.
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That's a wild brook trout. I'd like to hear the story though!
yeah. that's Independance pass and I'm looking south.
(just South of Aspen)
Not bad for a guy from Washington :)
A lot of those are fourteeners.
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I am officially jealous. Thanks for the pic! Think I'll go mow the yard.
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Originally posted by Wlfgng
That's a wild brook trout. I'd like to hear the story though!
yeah. that's Independance pass and I'm looking south.
(just South of Aspen)
Not bad for a guy from Washington :)
A lot of those are fourteeners.
Thks :)
Incidently, if you ever make it out this way, during summer, we'll take a 8 hour drive to my property in Montana, at 7,000 feet, two mountain lakes, largest trout I've caught was 9 lbs (They begin to look like salmon at that size)...smallest was 22 inches. Pretty much "one cast- one catch" on a partly cloudy day. It'll ruin you for life. Step dad has his own private pond stocked with Grayling, Brookies, rainbow.
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I'm leaving in 2 hours to go to the coast to catch redfish and sand trout :D Hopefuly that tropical storm didn't screw up the fishing....
nice pics btw
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I'm there Rip!
man I love those days.. we call it 'stupid' fishing because you don't need the skill it takes on a sunny day.
Udie, I'm jealous.
We have a Green Drake hatch going on this month. It's been awesome.
This is by no means a large fish for the area.. merely a really awesome wild one. Love the colors but the pic doesn't really do it justice since it was so cloudy that day.
Probably head up there Sunday if the weather is better.
Damn near snowed on us the day of the pic.
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Originally posted by Wlfgng
Love the colors but the pic doesn't really do it justice since it was so cloudy that day.
Probably head up there Sunday if the weather is better.Damn near snowed on us the day of the pic.
Wild brookies hold their color so much better than hachery brookies! Beautiful.
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Toad may I borrow your lawnmower when you're done?
It looks beautiful there Wlfgng. I'm jealous.
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You guys come visit. I live in a house on the river (Roaring Fork), it's becoming my friends' 'Fishing Cabin'.
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I'll be there tomorrow... being from Wyoming till just a couple years ago, I have a hard time knowing where to go in Colorado, and in not finding a couple thousand people wherever I end up. :(
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Ah, no wonder... you are way the hell west of here (Boulder). Find me a job... preferably a job fly fishing. :)
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yeah, I left the front range a few years back.
As I got older, quality of life became more and more important.
Still, come on up. I'll put ya'll up at my place and we can fish in my back yard (Roaring Fork River).
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Originally posted by Ripsnort
Salida is near there? I recognize the peaks of some of the "Fourteeners" [/B]
Here's a live cam of one of the largest, Mt. Princeton.
http://www.mtprincetoncam.org
One of 13 in the county.
dh<---lives near Salida in Buena Vista
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Well... I can see ONE 14'r from my house...
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Just got back from the coast. I caught 2 hard head catfish and 7 speckled trout. The first trout I have ever caught :D 4 of them were about 14" - 14.5" so they had to go back in, the limit is 15". But 2 were 17" and the 3rd was a 20" whopper that may win me $50 for 2nd biggest trout. But it was a SLOW day :( those fish were all boated by 10 am, then nothing until we got off the water at 1:30. I caught the most on the boat I was on for the 2nd year in a row though :D
That 20" trout hit my croaker about 50ft from the boat within 2 seconds of my bait hitting the water. It really didn't feel like a big fish. That was until it saw where it was headed, the boat :D Then it was on! That sucker started taking out drag like it was nothing at all. It was the 2nd fish all year that I've had pull out drag. He did NOT want to get in the boat. Everytime I got him near it he would start fighting again! And yes the drag was set right! I had it pretty tight because I was hoping for a nice 30"+ red drum.
Is there a freshwater speckled trout? and do all these other types of trout (freshwater) fight like thier saltwater cousins? I always thought trout were like 8" or 9". I knew that saltwater trout get big, but didn't know that freshwater ones get to 9 lbs! :eek: Hmm this could be as addicting as bass fishing.
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but it did not help heal the pain from losing that lunker last saturday :(
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Trout and Salmon are closely related Udie.
Steelhead have been refered to as both.
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Originally posted by midnight Target
Trout and Salmon are closely related Udie.
Steelhead have been refered to as both.
didn't know that :)
I just noticed in the pick at the top of this thread that you lipped that trout with your hands. Man you wouldn't want to do that with these that we caught today! 1 top tooth that measures aprox. 1.25 cm and about 10 lower teath that measure about 3-5mm. :eek:
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What did you catch it with Wlfgng?
Can't believe you told fish story without any So-there-I-was's and without mentioning the fly!
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It was a brown drake. Saw one on my leg while I was tying up
As for grabbing that guy's lip, I still have four puncture wounds. They were not the 1.2 cm sized teeth.. still, sharp as hell and a big mouth for his body. His whole head was bigger in relationship to his body than the ones caught at lower alts. he's a wild one.
Udie that is sweet. They definately have an overbite problem !
Oh yeah.. troutski's can get big. I caught a 30"+ model earlier this year by my house.. luckily I had a witness
and I've caught bigger on the "Miracle Mile".. river between two reservoirs.. that bad boy was 36".. fat as can be. You have to time them migrating between lakes :)
have a pic somewhere...
Here's to hoping you get addicted to trout fishing !!! (hic)
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awesome .. wish you could eat more than a fish a month here
Independance pass rocks .. drove it after 5 day hike out of Marble CO :) one lane sometimes hehe
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Nice brookie, Wlfgang. You are making me miss the mountains.
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WTG Wlfgng, very nice.
I just started trout fishing (with fly-rod) last year, I love it.
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Beautifull pictures!
Is it really 12,000ft = 3600m?! Do you have places to go fishing that high in Colorado!?
The grass and flowers look like 2000-3000m in Central Caucasus, but the mountains don't look like above 3000... On Kola noodlesula we have something like that, but it's no more them 500m above the sea level. But OTOH it's above Arctic Circle ;)
I am not a big fan of fishing, but I really want to go hiking there ;) I envy you. The nearest mountains from Moscow are at least 1500km away... So far I went hiking from Carpathians it the West to lake Baikal in the East, and from Kola noodlesula in the North to Crimea in the South ;)
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Oh god!
Watched that webcam images... Beautiful! The closest thing that I have seen myself were the mountains outside Kislovodsk in early November... It's Western Caucasus, where you ride across the Cossak steppe and finaly reach the mountains...
3000+ peaks look different everywhere. But the mountais are always beautiful :)
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yes. I was standing at 12,100' when I took the picture at the lake. A few of the peaks in the picture are above 14,000'.
There's also another lake, higher up. It's located at approximately 13,200'.