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After leaving the Dusy Ershim Trail, I planned on getting to my secret fishing spot outside of Bishop, CA. I have never been to Yosemite, so I went that way to see the park, then go over Tioga Pass and drop down into the Owens valley. The scenery in Yosemite is fantastic, but I don’t recommend going in the summer when kids are out of school. It was a mad house, with a traffic jam that took 30 minutes to get us through the main gate. Not my idea of a good time. But as I said, the park is awesome. It was real hazy that morning so good shots were hard to get. Tioga Pass is one Kodak moment after another.
My favorite sign in the park
This is for Chuck:
THis guy came and hung around me the whole time I was at this spot:
Then I dropped down into the Owens Valley and the volcanic crater that makes up a great deal of the Mono Basin. I got to the East side of Mono Lake for some photo ops:
Some history of the area around Mono Lake:
Then South East out of the Mono Basin over to Benton Hot Springs and some pretty cool off road tracks that haven’t been driven in a long time. I laid tracks for the first time in a long time on some of these trails:
Benton Hot Springs:
Trails with no tire tracks... I can't resist!
Before:
After:
Then I went to Bishop and did some more fishing. As usual, the fishing at the “secret” spot is phenomenal. I caught limits both days I was there, then went to Convict Lake and caught a few there. Catch and release all the way this time.
On the way home, I decided to go through Kennedy Meadows, and wound up coming down through Lake Isabella and the Kern River.
A heard of Elk South of Bishop
I fished the head waters of the Kern River South Fork, then fished the very end of the mighty Kern just before it disappears into the Aquaduct. Kind of sad that such a wonderful, powerful river has to be swallowed up like that. After all this wonder, the rest of the drive home through Bakersfield was BOOORRRRING!
My favorite sign in the park
This is for Chuck:
THis guy came and hung around me the whole time I was at this spot:
Then I dropped down into the Owens Valley and the volcanic crater that makes up a great deal of the Mono Basin. I got to the East side of Mono Lake for some photo ops:
Some history of the area around Mono Lake:
Then South East out of the Mono Basin over to Benton Hot Springs and some pretty cool off road tracks that haven’t been driven in a long time. I laid tracks for the first time in a long time on some of these trails:
Benton Hot Springs:
Trails with no tire tracks... I can't resist!
Before:
After:
Then I went to Bishop and did some more fishing. As usual, the fishing at the “secret” spot is phenomenal. I caught limits both days I was there, then went to Convict Lake and caught a few there. Catch and release all the way this time.
On the way home, I decided to go through Kennedy Meadows, and wound up coming down through Lake Isabella and the Kern River.
A heard of Elk South of Bishop
I fished the head waters of the Kern River South Fork, then fished the very end of the mighty Kern just before it disappears into the Aquaduct. Kind of sad that such a wonderful, powerful river has to be swallowed up like that. After all this wonder, the rest of the drive home through Bakersfield was BOOORRRRING!
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