Jennie Lakes Wilderness

[windknot]

Yeah we made it in an hour and fifteen minutes but that's coming out of Sanger which is about twenty minutes closer to the park entrance than Fresno. I don't know if it's any faster but from Visalia I think you can take 198 all the way up to Sequoia.

[fyton2v]

So the initial trip was postponed due to bout with strep throat. Me and my older daughter both came down with it a few days before we were supposed to go. We ended up leaving my wife and 3YO at home and did the hike to Jennie Lake the weekend before last.

It's a nice hike. We left from the Fox Meadow trail head making it about 5.5 miles one-way. Great scenery. Plenty of marmots. Mosquitoes weren't bad. However, there isn't much water up there. I don't think we crossed a single stream for about 2 miles preceding Jennie Lake... and there was barely water in the streams that did exist.

For the fishing buffs: The fishing at Jennie is very good right now. Landed several 8-10 rainbow/brook trout and 1 14" or 15" rainbow (I didn't measure) on a black woolly bugger. Royal patterns seemed to work pretty well too. Plenty of large fish patrolling the shallows. It's worth the walk.

Thanks again for those that provided advice.

[giantbrookie]

Thanks for the report. Glad the trip was a success and it's good to hear there are large fish in Jennie. Sounds like it is the year for adults catching strep throat. I was nailed 3 times this spring. Funny thing was that although I caught it frequently as a kid and teenager, I don't recall having it in at least 20 years. Ironically the most recent of those three times was the same week I was originally planning to visit Weaver or Cora as per earlier in this thread (ie I was probably sick about the same time you were). I ended opting for Hidden Lake in Kaiser Wilderness; I was on my second day of antibiotics when I did that little dayhike.