Bent Rods and Tight Lines

Bent Rods and Tight Lines (Mammoth Times)

If your interested in fishing for Golden trout then have a read of this trip in to Lake Sublime They are a beutiful fish that really inspire.

"The golden trout is larger than life. It's not just a trout, but an embodiment of trout fishing literally taken to its highest realm. Because they dwell in our highest, starkest, and most remote terrain, goldens are not a casual pursuit. They provide a true quest." - Ralph Cutter, Fly Fisherman Magazine

My recent backpacking trip to Lake Sublime seriously "messed" me up. After the thrill of catching large, gorgeous golden trout in the backcountry, I wanted to drop out of life for a few weeks, live out of a rucksack and roam from one alpine lake to the next in search of goldens.

The experience also radically altered my view of fishing in the Eastern Sierra. Fishing from a float tube for stocked rainbow trout ("truck fish") provides cheap thrills, but the experience pales in comparison to the adventure of going after large, wild golden trout in high alpine lakes.

Unfortunately, dropping out of life for an extended fishing trip simply isn't an option. But I returned to Lake Sublime for a weekend trip, and I brought along a friend, Mark Hachtmann of Independence, an avid Eastern Sierra backpacker and fisherman. Since 1971, Hachtmann, 54, says he has hiked more than 1,000 miles in the backcountry and caught more than 1,000 trout.

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Thanks to Alex Rose for this report.

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