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@ranaraza wrote:
What book do you recommend for a eastside newbie fly fisherman who likes to hike and backpack?Please tell me……
A general book on high lake fly fishing that gets good reviews on Amazon is Fly Fishing the Mountain Lakes by Gary LaFontaine . As far as guidebooks to lead you to the gems, I don’t know that there are any. These new(!) WDFW high lakes webpages may give you some info on places to go.
http://wdfw.wa.gov/fishing/washington/highlakes/
http://wdfw.wa.gov/fishing/washington/highlakes/stocking.phpThe WTA website can give you trail and lake conditions info;
http://www.wta.org/go-hiking/trip-reports
if not to a specific place you are planning to visit, other destinations near the same elevation, and with a similar sun exposure will be close. -
I recently read Gary Lafontaine’s book. I found it quite interesting. It has me considering pack goats in the future.
Where are you located on the eastside? I started fishing high lakes about 10 years ago. I started off going to very popular lakes judging by how pretty the pictures where on NWhiker.com trip reports. I tend to stare at maps for a long while and curiousity got the better of me as I became more and more intrigued with random blue spots on the topo maps.
I would suggest checking the WDFW website Brian linked for stocking years and then doing some searches to see if the lake is pretty.
I try to focus first on lakes that are beautiful, then rarely visited, and lastly that were stocked 3-6 years ago. 3 years if I want the highest likelihood of catching fish (in the 10-13″ category). If I’m in the mood to try and catch a big fish, I’ll go to a lake rarely visited that was stocked 6-7 years ago. However, this get’s me skunked more often then not. It’s always nice to find a route with several lakes stocked at different intervals, that way you have the chance to catch a lunker at a lake with 5-7 year old fish but have the reliability of a lake with 3-4 year old fish. YMMV
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