Re: TR: 6/16 N. Yosemite Boundary Lakes
Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2016 8:48 am
No new camera (perhaps confused with someone else who has that camera). Still using my old Cannon S95 (? honestly I am not 100% sure that is what it is called). I have been setting the camera on rocks or other solid objects, when available, which may have reduced some of the camera shake when I take the photo.
I knew there were reportedly no fish currently in those lakes and Cherry Creek is flowing too high for good fishing. The old Emigrant guidebook shows fish, but evidently stocking was abandoned in the late 1980's. I do not know if further fish killing was done to create more frog habitat. There certainly are frogs in the lakes now. Many of those lakes are relatively shallow so probably poor candidates for fish anyway. Flora and Spotted Fawn, however, seem to be deep. Maybe the lakes are oxygen deprived. There are fish in Kibbie, but I did not go there. I think the area got more use pre-90's because of the fishing. I read reports of "use-trails", but what few I found were barely visible and very overgrown. There really are not any canyons, other than Cherry Creek. Edith Lake (which you can see from Nance Peak) is in the next drainage south.
I knew there were reportedly no fish currently in those lakes and Cherry Creek is flowing too high for good fishing. The old Emigrant guidebook shows fish, but evidently stocking was abandoned in the late 1980's. I do not know if further fish killing was done to create more frog habitat. There certainly are frogs in the lakes now. Many of those lakes are relatively shallow so probably poor candidates for fish anyway. Flora and Spotted Fawn, however, seem to be deep. Maybe the lakes are oxygen deprived. There are fish in Kibbie, but I did not go there. I think the area got more use pre-90's because of the fishing. I read reports of "use-trails", but what few I found were barely visible and very overgrown. There really are not any canyons, other than Cherry Creek. Edith Lake (which you can see from Nance Peak) is in the next drainage south.