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Crystal Mountain Lakes
« on: June 19, 2021, 09:43:03 PM »
The wife and I rode the Gondola on Crystal Mountain today. I see there are a couple little lakes. Has anyone tried to fish them?

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Re: Crystal Mountain Lakes
« Reply #1 on: June 19, 2021, 10:29:02 PM »
We fly fish up there. Just catch and release. Henskin is good and a great place to camp

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Re: Crystal Mountain Lakes
« Reply #2 on: June 20, 2021, 01:30:26 PM »
Ride the gondola and hike to the lake or hike in from the bottom?
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Re: Crystal Mountain Lakes
« Reply #3 on: June 20, 2021, 01:33:59 PM »
Is the gondola open for summer hiking

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Re: Crystal Mountain Lakes
« Reply #4 on: June 20, 2021, 01:40:22 PM »
Yes we went yesterday. I would like to ride it up hike down and fish

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Re: Crystal Mountain Lakes
« Reply #5 on: June 20, 2021, 01:41:11 PM »
We got there at 9:45 and there was already a line.

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Re: Crystal Mountain Lakes
« Reply #6 on: June 20, 2021, 03:05:36 PM »
We tried to take it up yesterday around 2 and the line was long and they had a lot of wind slowdowns. We decided to just have a beer at the lower lodge, that guy could learn some people skills! Love the area, beautiful at the lakes.
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Re: Crystal Mountain Lakes
« Reply #7 on: June 20, 2021, 03:08:28 PM »
Ride the gondola and hike to the lake or hike in from the bottom?
I like to take the gondola up and walk down, but the gondola isn’t cheap. The view though is priceless
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Re: Crystal Mountain Lakes
« Reply #8 on: June 20, 2021, 03:50:33 PM »
Small Brookies-lots of them.

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Re: Crystal Mountain Lakes
« Reply #9 on: June 20, 2021, 03:57:30 PM »
What’s the best set up? I haven’t looked at the regs. Yet. Best set up?

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Re: Crystal Mountain Lakes
« Reply #10 on: June 20, 2021, 07:23:53 PM »
What’s the best set up? I haven’t looked at the regs. Yet. Best set up?
Lots of small brookies in mountain lakes usually means they’ll eat just about anything.
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