Eastern Sierras: Oct 11-18

[YellowYaket]

Originally Posted by Saba Slayer

Wow...that looks pretty damn cold...
We were up at Trumbull campground in July and it was beautiful, except when the smoke from the fires moved in.
Did you try fishing Trumbull lake? The BFEF from Bridgeport was stocking this little lake pretty heavily early in the summer...we caught about 6 fish between 5lbs and 3lbs and lots of stocker size trout too.
Little Virginia was just too crowded for me and Big Virginia only seemed to be holding small trout.
How was the fishing at Convict...? The views up there are outrageous and the restaurant up there serves some pretty good meals.

Wow, very nice fish! The Trumbull campground was already closed, along with the gate at the entrance. Several cars were parked along the main road, so they either walked in to fish or were hunting bears (I think they were hunters because I heard a couple of shots go off when I was on Big Virginia, although I couldn't really tell where the shots came from). Since I couldn't get my kayak onto Trumbull, I didn't try to fish it. Actually, in all my years of fishing in the Virginia Lakes area, I have only fished Trumbull a couple of times. Based on the monsters you caught, I might need to rethink my strategy! Little Virginia is always a zoo.

Convict was slow, not only for me but for the other float tubers, power-boaters, and shore fisherman that I talked with. One guy fishing from the shore told me that he had been fishing there for 3 days and he saw only 1 small fish caught the whole time.

Regardless, the beauty of the Eastern Sierras more than made up for the slow fishing. I might not wait until mid-Oct next fall, but rather shoot for mid September to improve my odds of getting warmer weather.

Darren