Sept. 14-17 I went on a BP trip to a remote place in the Sierra. I was checking out a Topo earlier this year when I saw a lake that appeared to have all the attributes of a great fishing lake. It was off the beaten path, on the way to nowhere, hard to get to, appeared deep and seemed to have a relatively flat inlet stream= good for spawning.
I tried to get info on the lake (Google, books, this website, p.m.) What I got was zero, zilch, and nada. It's nice there are still some places around with the element of the unknown. I wouldn't want to spoil it for the next person who seeks info on it so I will refer to it as: 6.5 kilometers west of the northernmost of the 2 lakes that makes deposits to both sides of the Sierra.
I arrived at the lake around 5 pm September 15th and started fishing. I began to move to a different place when I noticed a brown bear and her black cub headed right towards me about 70' away. She noticed me and changed her course and went away from the lake, up and around me thankfully. I fished for a half hour Saturday and from 6:45 a.m. to noon the following day. Never saw a fish in the lake, never saw a fish surface feed, never had a nibble. Didn't use a fly and bubble, because they're was almost always a chop on the lake. Used a number of different proven lures without any luck.
I checked out the inlet streams, none of them were currently even making it into the lake. The continual upslope wind forces all the small rocks and sand to the inlet side of the lake, creating a berm almost a foot tall in some places, completely preventing the streams from reaching the lake. The inlet streams still had water, saw no fish in them, but I did see a large frog.
I'm guessing there's at least a 90% chance there's no fish in the lake; even so, I very much enjoyed the experience of being there.
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