Markleeville area Trouting

Just got back from seven days fishing the Markleeville area with two fly-buds, with a side trip to Lower Twin lake at Bridgeport. The weather was fantasic all week. Lower Twin is fishing great with lots of 12-15", and good numbers of 3-5 pounders too! So good, we went back a couple of days later and roughed them up again. I don't usually keep trout, but these were all stockers and they are destined to go to a nearby smoker. The old wooly worm was what they wanted. 

The upper Wolf Creek is beautiful and the water was perfect, but we never were touched, so we moved to the E. Carson @ Wolf Creek and caught a couple but not worth that much effort - a little too big, and growing as it gets down to Hangmans bridge. Maybe a week or so and it will be prime.

Indian Creek Res. was Slooooow.

The West Carson is good  through the canyon, and the Hope Valley meadow area had good dry fly fishing for 8-13" on PMD's and Para-Adams, but it was mid-week. The weekends are usually too crowded for me.

Damn Jim! Those are awesome fish. What an awesome trip man. Thanks for sharing dude!

+2 on the eastside admiration society!

Sounds like my kind of trip. How slow was Indian creek? That use to be a good place. Caught my biggest stillwater brown there.

ugh, I miss my fly fishing adventures...  hopefully I'll get up there this year!

thanks for the report and pics!

Wow, that looks awesome Jim, I haven't fly fished up there since the 70's
Lower Twin always seemed to produce the big Browns.

Nothing like the Sierras to get away from things.
Looks like a great trip.

Sweet trip!! Took me a minute to figure out that you had to unload everything to change the tire, glad you were able to get it fixed and keep on fishing!!!!!

Beautiful fish and scenery, bummer about the tire tho.
My mother and I fished the west and east Carson Sunday and didn't get anything over 8", so a 13" sounds like a trophy!!  We also fished Mosquito lake on the way home but only got a lot of follows...

Sounds like my kind of trip. How slow was Indian creek? That use to be a good place. Caught my biggest stillwater brown there.

Super slow. Fished for 4 hours, and not even a touch. Mostly fish streamers at various depths, but also indicator nymphed for an hour. My buddy Mark got one on a dry as soon as we put in, but that was it. Talked to a local who fishes there every day, and he said it's been slow for at least a week. The water's a dingy greenish/brown.

looks like a great trip jim, thanks for the pics, going to try and get over to that area next month and visit a friend in markleeville and do some fly fishing while im there, cameron

Oh man...you were fishing some of my favorite spots Jim! I'm jealous. But glad you posted that report because it made me reminisce the adventures I had throughout that area. To this day, one of the best fish I ever caught was a 6-7lb LCT above wolf ck junction on the E Carson. I'll never forget that one. 

Beautiful places. Thanks for sharing Jim. Some day.

Awesome, looks like a great trip, can't beat the scenery. I can relate to the flat tire, I got one coming out of the conservancy on the McCloud...then another one a few miles later driving up the hill on 89, LOL.

Thanks for sharing the trip with us Jim.