Silver Lake Rainbows

[Dark_Knight_9C1]

Went up to the Eastern Sierras last week and camped at Silver Lake in June Lake Loop. Fishing was very slow until Saturday and I heard they had stocked either Thursday or Friday.
I was using night crawlers while everyone else had powerbait. I knew I had to keep the worms off the bottom so the fish could see them so I was inflating them with a syringe. This worked very nicely and I was getting bites almost every cast. When I reeled in, I either had half a worm or the worm wasn't floating.
I was using circle hooks so I could let the smaller ones go but the fish were inhaling the bait and only one actually was hooked in the lip. Made for a quick limit.
I did catch one unusual trout with darker coloration and blue eyes and a blue tint on its lower lip.

The fish were being brought in from other states due to a lot of the California hatcheries having to start over due to an infection. The load which came the following week came from Oregon.


Also put out Crayfish traps and got about 2 dozen. This was one of the biggest.

Claws were a good 2 inches long.

To see the scale of the lot, the largest one above is in the bottom far right of the group.
Had some wind as usual and spent a couple days in Yosemite. All in all a great trip

- Keith

[jrodda]

Cool trip! Crawfish boil at your house???