Posts from ‘July, 2007’

Crowley Lake/Rock Creek Fishing Trip, Part 5 of 5

Sunday was a day of travel and the end of our adventure in Eastern Sierra fishing, probably for this summer. (Fall is coming up though!) We headed up Hwy 395 for Hwy 120, and made a quick stop on Lee Vining Creek just below Tioga Lake. The [...]

Crowley Lake/Rock Creek Fishing Trip, Part 4 of 5
Our last day at Rock Creek started with our packing for a high along Upper Rock Creek in pursuit of more wild trout. We struck out from the trailhead, which is at 10,255 feet, about nine o’clock. According to what I had learned, the Mosquito Flat Trail [...]

Crowley Lake/Rock Creek Fishing Trip, Part 3 of 5
Friday morning Christopher wanted to pursue larger fish, hoping that Rock Creek Lake would give up some of the recently planted state hatchery and Alpers rainbows. There was little doubt that some fish were there. A few followed spinners in from deeper water just past a shelf, [...]

Crowley Lake/Rock Creek Fishing Trip, Part 2 of 5

But our guided trip wasn’t the end of my fishing (or catching) for the day. During our day on Crowley Tom told me of some folks who had fished a section of Rock Creek called “the ponds.” It’s an area just below Rock Creek Lake where the [...]

Crowley Lake/Rock Creek Fishing Trip, Part 1 of 5

This last trip across the Sonora Pass to the Eastern Sierra will go down in my books as one to remember. And one that brought about new understandings and new respect for my relatively recently adopted hobby, fly fishing.
It all began July 18 as Christopher and I [...]