Bald Eagle Forest

Streammagic237

Streammagic237

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Fished a small stream in bald eagle today. They are the safest fish ever. HA ! Got onto a decent section of water and found some olives around Noon. Had 6 fish and a miserable 20 mile round trip. Crossing this off my list as I don't think I would ever want to do it again but was an experience .
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That's impressive. I've done a lot of backcountry fishing but never walked that far in a day. and not even close.

I used to commonly walk about 8 miles a day while fishing mountain streams, and once walked 11 miles while fishing, because I got lost. That's the most I've ever walked in a day while fishing.
 
thanks , much of the head waters of the stream was a just trickle/ unfishable and I had never been there so was a lot of hiking and not as much fishing as I wanted truthfully . There was a very good deer trail next to the stream and was level ground once you get down the gorge. Also I got turned around coming out sooooo not all the miles were needed .... logging road for the win 😅
 
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Walking 20 miles on and in-and-out fishing trip in Bald Eagle SF is almost impossible. There are roads all over the place. Where in the heck did you go?
 
jifigz said:
Did you hike down in from East Kettle Rd?
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Hiked in on kettle to the real start of it were the grade is nice to get in . Took it down to camp ground line but when I came out I mistook the lower switch back roads for kettle there are 2 I did them both both ways ... till got figured out lol 😂.
 
I admire your confession. This from a guy who gets lost using a GPS.
 
20 miles… whatever company made your wading boots should sponsor you at that point.

I’m with troutbert, 8-10 miles is usually my upper end for a “long” day of hiking when fishing. Beyond that calls for biking or backpacking, in my book!
 
I too kinda wondered how you managed a 20 mile round trip hike in BESF. There was only really one place where I thought that may be possible, depending on how you approach it, but Moyers Mill wasn’t it.

I fished Moyers Mill once, was a one and done for me too. Pretty rhodo choked, was expecting to find a mix of Browns and Brookies, but only turned up dink Brookies. Was a fairly nice mid-Winter day and it was nice to be out in the woods, but the fishing wasn’t worth the effort IMO. I did it parking at the top of the mountain on 235 on the west end of the drainage. Hiked the intermittent flowing trib that comes in from the west. No trail, but it was easy walking through fairly open woods IIRC, until I got down to the main stem of Moyers Mill, which was surrounded by rhodo. Maybe 2 miles round trip doing it that way.

How’d you do it exactly?

Edit: My bad, missed your post above explaining.
 
Sometimes a grueling hike in leads to some disappointing fishing. But on the other hand, sometimes a roadside stream can be lights out. It kind of evens out, in my view. The exploration is part of the fun!
 
I flushed a ruffed grouse and it scared the heck out of me ( my first ) was taken with just how big they are and how loud it was , no deer surprisingly but lots of tracks . I Had a grey squirrel barking at me as I ate lunch was really annoyed at my presence.
 
One of the longer walk in fishing trips I took, involved a 2 mile hike in - just to reach the stream where it feeds into the back of a reservoir.
Rated class A, I was pretty optimistic about fishing there.

Turned out to be a dud
Two of us didn't catch a handful of fish together
And those few were dinks.

You never now....
 
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