Day 1- 13 miles hike into Sequoia Kings Canyon National Parks in search of Golden Trout. Additional footage by Roger. #highcountryflyfisher #jimlowe #goldentroutwilderness #HCFFGoldenTrout #SEKI #Backpacking #camplife #pct
Gotta say I absolutely LOVE your video journals. At 60 years old there's no way I'm going to subject myself to this kind of endurance test but to witness it firsthand via your chronicles is priceless. BTW you are a bad-ass roll caster. Jeeze. All that said, at this point I am a "day fisher" and I will work the living hell out of 30' feet of stream and spend all day doing so and the feeling of satisfaction working every single potential lair is enough for me. Thank you Jim-Jim, be safe out there and may your lines always be tight.
Two golden trips in a row! You spoil us! Thanks for taking us along. Any thoughts on a 10ft 3wt for the alpine lakes? Building my first rod and really want to have one for euro nymphing but wondering if the extra length could be useful for longer casts when they're rising out of reach.
Yeah a 10ft rod would be great way to handle backcasting over brush and help with roll casting. I’d go with a 4 though.Thanks for watching! This is day 1 of 4!
Hi, it really depends on the area. I'm not particularly worried about Bears or Cougars here. California has mostly Black Bears and they, and the Mountain Lions typically leave you alone. I've only had 3 encounters with bears in the nearly 30 years I've been backpacking / hiking in the Sierra. One, I was sleeping and it walked between a friend and myself. The second I was in my tent and a bear was trying to get into my bear canister. It was gone by the time I got out of my tent and the 3rd was during the Kennedy Lakes trip last year. I made noise, it ran away. All pretty benign. Oh, and I almost forgot this one: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xLtFGVTyfe4.htmlsi=7yl4BKaYWY2aSbej&t=768 Anyway, it doesn't happen often. I see more bears while driving in my car than actually hiking. That said, when I know a place has a large number of bears or I'm in Grizzly country, I'll carry Bear Spray. If I get bit by a rattlesnake, I'd mark it, monitor it and probably use my locator beacon. I used to carry a snakebite kit (I'm a 70's kid) but was convinced they were essentially useless. So I'd probably mark the bite, find a nice tree to sit under and call for help. Ralph Cutter once purposely went into the mountains and got himself bitten. He spent the night there and had relatively little reaction to the bite. Guess the snake didn't want to waste the venom. (Cutter also had a doctor with him with anti-venom incase it got out of hand.) A little long winded but the long and short of it is I'm not concerned. I'm prepared when I think I need to be and I've always got my knife and PLB with me.
@@highcountrychronicles So does that mean you could survive a rattlesnake bite? How long would it even take for someone to rescue you in such a remote location? Mountain lions are said to be extremely territorial. What I do hear about them is scary. I guess bear spray is better than nothing in that case. I'm the type who already gets nervous if I don't see anyone on a trail for 5 minutes. On another note, I have been checking out a bunch of your videos (on TV), so I couldn't comment on the particular video. But we're golden trouts only introduced to the Sierra or are they native there? I have read both things. Once I heard of people going to the Kern river to dump them in there in certain locations. Apparently the native trout is only still present in a 10 mile stretch.
@mos7307 In California both Bear and Mountain Lion attacks are rare and rattlesnake bites don't often result in death despite some people sustaining massive damage if not treated quickly. So yeah, could you die. Sure but you're more likely to die in a car accident. I'm more likely to die / injure myself from my own stupidity in the backcountry. Knowing that in most cases, most animals are going to either ignore or run from you makes it easier to be comfortable alone on the trail but it can be a hurdle for some people. Regarding Golden Trout. They are native to California but their native range is basically restricted to the Kern drainage. They've been transported / stocked across the state and nation. So if you catch a Golden Trout in Cottonwood Lakes for example, you are catching a fish native to California in non-native waters. Hope that makes sense.
We went cross country to save time. There are several use trails in the area which we didn’t know about until we happened upon them. Roger had followed the main trail several years ago but then you have to go off trail or maybe a use trail up the canyon. He didn’t want to do that again.
Catch and release. Not just Barbless hooks, cut the hook so that it will catch but release when tension is off. Enjoy the videos but unfortunately all the wanna bees that don't treat that wilderness with respect. And I've been an avid backpacker in those areas for decades. Remind folks be gentle
Hi, Yep, I agree. I try to educate people in my videos but I see them as continuing chronicles of my outdoor adventures so I don't necessarily discuss the same thing in each video nor regurgitate wilderness etiquette at every outing. I've talked quite a bit about fishing and wilderness etiquette in past videos and tend to do so now only when in a situation where it makes sense to do so or needs to be called out. For example, the distance from the water of our camp site in the next video in this series. Your point is well taken. I do discuss it but you won't see it in every video. Thanks.
Much of it yes. I don’t really know what the restrictions or capabilities of horses are in the Sierra but the could certainly use that part of the PCT we were on. They wouldn’t be able to follow over the terrain in the next video however.
I've watched days one and four (actually, four then one) of your trip. The videography is very good, and I appreciate that you don't use music, ambient sounds being more appropriate, I think. But I wish you had named the trails, meadows, and lakes you passed or stopped at. (If you did name any of them, I didn't catch it.) I tried to follow you on GaiaGPS and could situate you only when you showed a trail sign or gave, for example, a pass's elevation. Otherwise, I couldn't tell where you were. Thus my recommendation for future videos: mention place names, to help those of us who may wish to go where you went.
Hi Karl, thanks. You'll find as you watch more of the videos that I often tell you exactly where I am. That's part of the reason the videos are out there- to give people an idea what the trails are like. Last year's French Canyon trip for instance or the most recent trip to Alger Lakes. This year, I spent quite a bit of time at places that are considered "sensitive" by Sierra fisherman so I've purposely obscured the locations in those videos. Great for people that like to keep "secret" fishing spots. Not so great for folks that simply want to backpack to beautiful places. That said, if you watch video 2, things might become more clear. Especially if you're a Sierra trout fisherman. Regardless, I've also said to people of those locations I obscure, "I'm happy to take you there." Thanks for the feedback. I really appreciate that you took the time. Thanks also for the kind words. Check out more of the videos, French Canyon, Alger Lakes, Emigrant videos, should all be up your alley. Thanks again!
Not for over a decade. There was a time when the “healthy” pop tarts were all crap. A few have gotten better and in some of the older videos you’ll see me eating them.
Here you go! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-19kS1sL_hqE.html Slightly different cloths based on the time of year but pretty much everything else is the same. Everything is listed in the description of that video.
