Fishing!

The fishing in the Mammoth Lakes Basin is some of the best there is!  There seems to be no shortage of fish to go around – that is, for everyone but us!  Our guests are pulling in huge stringers of fish on a daily basis right here at Lake Mary, but our success so far is one fish.  It has taken us a while to adjust back to trout fishing as most of our tackle has been focused on bass for the last few years.  So it’s no wonder that we haven’t had much luck flipping big crank baits on the end of 10 pound braided line.  But all that has changed now!  We took a trip to the local bait shop (and liquor store) and bought enough bait and tackle (and a few bottles of wine) to empty these lakes!  We are now casting miniature Rapalas, Panther Martin lures, and garlic worms on the end of 4 pound invisible monofilament test. 

(Not to veer too far from the subject, but we did have some really neat chartreuse garlic marshmallows with sparkles too, but we left them outside the trailer one day and one of our resident bears came and ate them.  He also took time to eat our citronella candle for desert.  I imagine his stomach doesn’t feel too good now, but at least the bugs won’t bother him, and we can smell him coming!)

Back to the fishing -- Our swivels are now a dainty size 12, instead of the industrial size 4’s we used for bass.  We no longer scare the fish away when our bait hits the water!  And out efforts have paid off –

This rainbow, caught on a 1 inch shallow running black and silver Rapala, measured 17” and weighed just under 2 pounds (we couldn’t get an exact weight since the scale we used was stuck on Kg and we couldn’t figure out how to fix it so Isabel had to do the conversion on her cell phone). 

I wish I had more pictures of giant fish I could post, but for now this is it.  Stay tuned for our pictures of packed stringers, coming in the near future (I hope)!