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Anybody out there fish lone pine lake on your way up the main trail, or Constilation near trail camp ? Looks realy fishy. Goldens or Brookies I amagine. ?
Are there fly only regs ?
Any info would be great.
Thanks
Tom

I fish Lone Pine Lake every year the day before I hike Whitney as a day hike. (12 times in the last 14 years)Fishing is fishing. Sometimes I catch many sometimes very few. I use barbless hooks as I do not eat fish. I have never fished Consulation Lake but a ranger has told me the fishing is good because few people fish it. Not sure only word of mouth. Years ago I use to fish mirror lake before permits required past Lone Pine lake. Good luck and Happy Hiking.

LPL is great fishing. I have caught rainbows and goldens. Pretty much only fly fish. Mosquito flies are the best.

In addition to the observations of Calsurfer and Tom my experiences are:

(1) No luck at Mirror Lake (just up the Main Trail from Lone Pine Lake).

(2) Great luck just on the other side of the Crest at Guitar Lake and Timberline Lake. At the outlet of Arctic Lake (off trail, NNE of Guitar Lake) I have seen many big trout hanging out.

Good luck this season with your fishing around Fisherman's Peak (elevation 14,496 ft).

Jim F

After finishing the Muir a few years back, I was not ready to leave the Sierra just yet and stayed a few days extra fishing Consolation.
Using spinning gear we threw lures deep and also some fly-n-bubble.

Fishing was good - (well, decent) with many skinny (eels?) 'bows and hybrids to 14 inches. Meat was orange/pink and tasty.

Tom, I have fished at Consultation five or six times, using a small collapsible rod and light weight reel, and 2 Lb test line. I mostly used a small silver de-barbed Cast Master lure, and did very well. Just for fun I put a small peice of Mango from my trail mix on the hook for several cast, and it got hit hard! Like Markskor said, the Trout up there look almost like an eel. Decent length,(8 to 12 in) but they had no meat on their bones. But we caught (and released) a bunch of them.

Tried fishing at Mirror Lake twice with no luck. I have never tried fishing Lone Pine Lake.