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MSUflyfisher

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Upper Kern River - Wilderness Area
Jul 11^th, 2012, 2:55pm

I am new to the forum but have been visting the website for awhile. I finally decided to join the party to learn and share my experience.

This past weekend I took the Fiance on a over night hiking/fishing trip to the upper kern. What an amazing experienceit was. For those of u who have been there know what i'm talking about. I have fished Alaska's backcountry as well as my growing up home waters of Michigan and the upper kern is as good as it gets. I only ended up fishing 2 hours before dark and 2 hours in the morning and managed to land and release 6 healthy native bows. I cant wait to go back. Here are a few pics...Enjoy.

Cheers and keep tight lines!!!!

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Richard_Cullip Diamond Member Posts: 2955 Gender:	Re: Upper Kern River - Wilderness Area Reply #1 - Jul 11^th, 2012, 3:19pm Sweet. The river and the rainbows are looking great. Thanks for sharing your trip with us. Welcome aboard. Hope to see more of you around here.
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flyguy Forum Administrator Posts: 1345	Re: Upper Kern River - Wilderness Area Reply #2 - Jul 11^th, 2012, 3:28pm Excellent!
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troutinator Diamond Member Posts: 3159 Gender:	Re: Upper Kern River - Wilderness Area Reply #3 - Jul 11^th, 2012, 5:43pm Yes, a pretty good introduction to the forum. Nice looking fish, but where's the fiancee and her fish? I mean, was she just along for taking pics?
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Tennessee Gold Member Posts: 473 Gender:	Re: Upper Kern River - Wilderness Area Reply #4 - Jul 12^th, 2012, 12:46pm Quote from troutinator on Jul 11^th, 2012, 5:43pm: Yes, a pretty good introduction to the forum. Agreed! Welcome to the forum! Jeremy
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Pastor Mike Silver Member SSFFC, FFF, SVFFC Posts: 208 Gender:	Re: Upper Kern River - Wilderness Area Reply #5 - Jul 12^th, 2012, 1:21pm Welcome and thanks for sharing.
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jdmanville Gold Member Posts: 316 Gender:	Re: Upper Kern River - Wilderness Area Reply #6 - Jul 12^th, 2012, 5:05pm The water looks absolutely amazing. The clarity. Great fish as well. Thanks for posting.
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fishngolf Silver Member Posts: 107 Gender:	Re: Upper Kern River - Wilderness Area Reply #7 - Jul 13^th, 2012, 11:57am Great Pictures! Thanks For Posting
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Windtalker Gold Member Posts: 493 Gender:	Re: Upper Kern River - Wilderness Area Reply #8 - Jul 13^th, 2012, 12:35pm Nice fish & photos, thanks! I have to chime in, did your fiancee fish, too? The water looks too inviting to sit on the sidelines.
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bluefish Platinum Member Posts: 861	Re: Upper Kern River - Wilderness Area Reply #9 - Jul 13^th, 2012, 4:10pm All the above. Welcome, and thanks for the great introduction. Beautiful pics. Charlie
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MSUflyfisher

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Re: Upper Kern River - Wilderness Area
Reply #10 - Jul 13^th, 2012, 4:17pm

Yes the fiancé did fish however she is just learning the art of fly casting so we are working on it. Need a few more trips to a lake with wide open area to minimize the frustration. Pretty soon she will be out fishing me.

I must say I find myself day dreaming at work about getting back to the upper kern. I'm gonna try to get back there in the next 2 or 3 weeks. I'm itching to get back on the pools, pocket water and runs to try my luck at some hard fighting rainbows. I was very impressed with how hard those fish fight. My last fish I caught went about 15" and it was taking line much to my surprise. The fish activity definitely picked up the last hour before dark with some caddis and small stones coming off the water.

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softhackleone Member Posts: 61 Gender:	Re: Upper Kern River - Wilderness Area Reply #11 - Jul 13^th, 2012, 4:21pm Great pictures! I can't tell you how much I would love for my lady to get into fly fishing. You are a lucky dude!
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MarFly Gold Member Posts: 361 Gender:	Re: Upper Kern River - Wilderness Area Reply #12 - Jul 13^th, 2012, 5:46pm Really nice post . Thanks for the pics fix.
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dannyboy New Member Posts: 20	Re: Upper Kern River - Wilderness Area Reply #13 - Jul 13^th, 2012, 8:02pm That's cool, I'm fortunate that my wife likes to fish with me. We just got back from Colorado and I'll post if I can figure out how to insert pictures.
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Pastor Mike Silver Member SSFFC, FFF, SVFFC Posts: 208 Gender:	Re: Upper Kern River - Wilderness Area Reply #14 - Jul 13^th, 2012, 8:47pm You can go to the help are to get instructions on how to post pictures.
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