Kennedy Lake Day 1 | Fall Camping, Backpacking and Fly Fishing the Emigrant Wilderness
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 ธ.ค. 2024
- @rodoutdoors and I hike up to Kennedy Lake for some fall Brown Trout fishing.
This is day 1 of a 3 October 2024 trip.
You can read about my first trip to this lake here: www.highcountry...
Music written for me by Breaking Shadows.
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Anyone interested in reading about my first trip here can read it here: www.highcountryflyfisher.com/pages/chronEW6.htm
Beautiful Browns Jim! Thank you, for taking me along!
@@danbrent4618 Thank you for watching!
Great video, enjoyed it! such beautiful country
Thank you! Yes it is! Glad you enjoyed it. I've got more Emigrant Wilderness videos on the channel. For more, I would recommend my 2020 play list where I visited some of the most beautiful parts of the wilderness: th-cam.com/play/PL0aZA5oQbTV-LvQcLhYyj4FPyZy_dG_qr.html
Really loving your videos! Always wanted to get back in there.
Thank you! You should go. Here's a brief summary of what's like: th-cam.com/video/N3ojzzQDvnk/w-d-xo.htmlsi=sn9j7notaxK29tXJ&t=30
One of my favorite destinations! 👍
I'm going to go back next year with a small stream rod and fish the stream more. I'm missing stream fishing...
Forgetting lots of stuff ay? 😂 What’s really frustrating is going into the kitchen (or wherever) and forgetting what you wanted when you get there! 🤣😅
@@Tenkara_Retiree Yeah, that's a daily occurrence. 🤣
Nicest Brown trout I’ve ever caught was in Kennedy lake back in the 70’s. A beautiful 18” fish!
@@Tenkara_Retiree Nice. The largest I've ever pulled out was this one in 2011.
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My first acquaintance with the high Sierra was car camping (decades ago, when you still could) in upper Kennedy Meadow. There would be two or three other parties in the whole place. Easy family camping and great fishing and swimming for an eight-year-old. The sign at the start of the trail near the pack station said "Kennedy Lake 9 miles; Lost Lake 13 miles." Lost Lake became the family epitome of the furthest destination and longest trail. Decades later I hiked up to Lost Lake from Emigrant Meadow, to check it out -- totally barren, nothing taller than foot-high scrub willow, no fish apparent. We ended up camping a half mile back down its the beautiful wildflower meadow southern access canyon, in the lee of a box-car size erratic boulder to get shelter from the incessant wind. But on the northeast side of the lake a well-worn trail dropped off precipitously down into the canyon toward Kennedy Lake. Does it emerge visibleydown at the bottom? Does anyone hike it any more?
Thanks for this video, JIm. The area looks more inviting than I would have thought, in October. The cow pies are a whole nuther subject.
Folks still go to Lost lake, though I haven't been myself yet. The lot above the upper meadow is filled with folks in road toasters with horses and their carriers.
@@highcountrychronicles Yah, I noticed that horse parking lot the last time I was through Kennedy Meadow. Basically I think that trailhead is the least attractive or useful in the Emigrant, but I know you manage to make it work for you. Ben Schifrin said Lost Lake had "a good population of eastern brook trout" (1990). We didn't see any when we were there ten years later but the place was so windy and so uninviting we didn't hang out long -- but the approach meadow leading up to it from Emigrant Basin is gorgeous.
@ Yes it is and I've often thought of spending the night there (Lost) rather than Emigrant Meadow or High Emigrant.
@@highcountrychronicles We found three choice campsites in the Emigrant Basin, one on the headwall, a couple hundred feet up -- there's a row of pines on a shelf -- another tucked into the north face of the small side canyon that drains more or less east-west into the lake south of the knob (9500) just northeast of the lake, and a third tucked into a corner of the granite formation on the west shore north of the outlet, with granite faces on two sides of it-- very well wind-sheltered. All of these have been used but none very much. They take finding and that takes time. We never explored the whole open meadowy area northwest of the lake or the higher ground on its perimeter. We didn't think Lost Lake was campable -- the wind is incessant, there is NO shelter, but the nearly boxcar size rectilinear erratic boulder a half mile down the canyon toward the basin offers fine shelter on its uphill lee side.
awesome
Thanks and thanks for watching!
Oh wow I didn't realize you didn't catch a fish until later that day. Must have been frustrating seeing a filthy casual catch one right in front of you with a piddly Tenkara rod 😂😂😂 I could have told you they were hitting the callibaetis nymph! (I just googled it to figure out how to spell it. No clue what it is.)
Kidding aside, those were nice fish! I had a blast out there. Even with the boggy mess. I can't wait to head back. We should head out somewhere sometime.
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🤣🤣 LOL. Not at all. First priority of fishing when fishing with a partner is to make sure they get into fish first. LOL.
It's funny, the callibeatis nymph is my go to fly for the Emigrant, so I wasn't surprised it was working, once I got the right retrieve. Besides, I got my revenge the next day. LOL.
Definitely want to go back with a small stream rod and focus on the creek for a day. Fish lower down, maybe start at the cabin and work up. We saw lots of nice fish in the creek, in the faster water.
I'll let you know when I plan to tackle the central coast.
I've never forgot my pad, but I did have a night without a pad because it had a leak that I patched the next day. Normally, I bring a torso length foam pad - but not that trip - and put my pack under my legs with the foam pad under my upper body and the inflatable pad on top of all of it. It works for me, is nice when you have a leak in your inflatable pad, and I have a foam pad to rest on during lunch. Looking forward to the Day 2 action.
Yeah, I've had pads go soft as well. Fortunately, you can usually blow them back up for a few hours at time. 😅😅
Thanks for watching. Day 2 was fun. It's rendering now. 😃 I'm not sure if I'm going to go back to the Friday schedule or stick with the Tuesday schedule I had before Thanksgiving though...
@highcountrychronicles that one time, it was my first trip of the season, and of course I didn't check my equipment ahead of time. It had two leaks and was deflating in an hour or less.
@ Ouch. That's bad.
First trips of the year can be rough though. Lots of rust.
Do your carry duct tape or anything?
@highcountrychronicles I carry a repair kit for the pad, but I really should get a new one before next year. I'm pretty sure the glue in my 4 year old kit is no longer liquid. 😄
@@michaelb1761 Sounds like me and my first aid kit. 😅
Great video. I always use a checklist and last time forgot my net and flies….
Thanks! Me too. LOL. Not sure how I forgot the pad. The waders and crocks I left on purpose, thinking that the swamp would be less swampy late in the season. LOL. Thanks for watching!
Come on, you guys. Gear list 1A .
@ the excitement of leaving for a trip causes me to lose it. Lowe can speak for himself.😂😂😂
@@chili1593 Yes, I understand, and a short trip makes it easy to be in a hurry and not think. Which is still bad woodcraft.
@ it has been said the devil is in the details..
Hi Jim, what weight rod were you using? How will the weather be in June for camping and fishing?
I'm using a 4wt.
Too early to say about the weather. June typically is fine if you can deal with the mosquitos.
I've been able to get in as early as April (th-cam.com/video/JSxtJXeG6ck/w-d-xo.html) and had snow to deal with mid May (th-cam.com/video/N3ojzzQDvnk/w-d-xo.html)
I watched a vlog about a backpacker who brought a hammock to sleep on, but forgot his sleeping bag. 😮 I know, really?
🤣🤣🤣 I hope it was summer or someplace in Florida... 🤣🤣🤣