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[SWHUNTER]

 

[Alchase]

Nice pics

[Bscman]

A handful from last year.

My girlfriend and I fished at least 12-15 high lakes and at least a dozen other "back country" lakes that technically don't fit into the high lakes category...but are still well hidden and preserved.
We caught fish in every lake, and have about a gig worth of pictures to prove it. Here are some quickies I posted on another forum.























Catch and release only for us on these high-country lakes.
No powerbait or any of that junk. Mostly barbless, single hooks.
Many of these high lakes can't sustain a lot of fishing pressure--the populations are too small and the growing season is too short.

Keep 'em clean!

FWIW, the pictures of the frozen over lake are from the end of August...and I'm sure many of you could name it.

[turkey slayer]

This is a high mountain lake my dad and I hiked in to a few years back. We took are float tubes in and killed them

[coonhound]

I posted these last year but they fit this post nice.  This little gem of a lake is an easy hike but doesn't look like it should even hold fish.  The brookies run 15" - 20", unlike most high lakes full of overpopulated 6" - 10" trout.

Coon

[ABMGENERAL]

Man o Man. You are killin me! That is soo beautiful...

[popeshawnpaul]

Here is a "hidden" little gem I burned a lot of calories getting to.  Too bad when I got there the reported golden trout they planted no longer lived there...  No fish. 

[Wea300mag]

Great pics guys!!!

I don't have any fish pics but here is one from a high lakes I hiked into last fall.

[rainshadow1]

I've seen this lake empty, full of 6"ers, and containing about 150 20"ers. Never caught much of anything in it. The twin lake down the hill however, always produces 10" brookies!

[Pathfinder101]

Those are some NICE lookin' brookies there coon...

[finnman]

I remember that log and that brookie Coonhound! That log is always good for one lunker!!!!!!

[RyanD]

Me and my buddy!!!

[gasman]

When my son was in Boy scouts, we used to take hikes to nearby lakes (Greenwater Lakes and Sheep Lake to name a few) for an over night hiking trip and the boys used to fish the lakes for dinner. Sheep lake only provided "finger lings", so they had to eat hot dogs.

Never got any pic, but wish i did, they had lots of fun fishing the higher lakes, and learned they don't bite (some) on the same bait as the lowland lakes do.

[Skyvalhunter]

Sometimes I fish sometimes I just take in the views!!

[American Rattlesnake]

I've seen this lake empty, full of 6"ers, and containing about 150 20"ers. Never caught much of anything in it. The twin lake down the hill however, always produces 10" brookies!

Interesting, I'll remember that.  Was in there a year and a half ago...some of the most beautiful country I've ever seen, but I didn't fish the lakes.

Even though I live in Idaho now, I miss the Olympics and Cascades.    I'm crazy, I know.