Is There any good place in southern california to go backpacking and fishing?
visione sinister asked:
I’m in the Fallbrook/ Rainbow area and I’m looking for a good area to go backpacking and fishing, fly fishing or conventional, does’nt matter, but I’m wondering if there is anything around here or If I’m going to have to go out a ways or not. Thanks
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I’m in the Fallbrook/ Rainbow area and I’m looking for a good area to go backpacking and fishing, fly fishing or conventional, does’nt matter, but I’m wondering if there is anything around here or If I’m going to have to go out a ways or not. Thanks
April 21st, 2009 at 7:59 pm
So far as I know, you’ll have to run up to the Sierra’s. You can use Mammoth Lakes or north as a base and go out from there. There are some nice high country lakes that you have to hike into. Check with the Forestry folks for maps and directions/closures/permits.
April 22nd, 2009 at 10:56 pm
I grew up doing quite a bit of backpacking (as a Boy Scout) in the L.A. area, but I don’t recall any decent fishing on any of those trips. I recall getting decent numbers of planted rainbows out of a section of the Sespe Creek in Ventura County, but that was on private land and was a drive-in trip.
There might be some reasonable trails around the Big Bear area, but again, the only fish I caught up there were out of the lake itself.
If you head a few hundred miles north to Sequoia/Kings Canyon and farther, then there’s plenty of great hiking and good fishing.
I’m not at all familiar with the mountains east of San Diego (Cleveland National Forest), but they get up to 4000 feet and there may be fish there, so it might be worth looking into.