Can anyone recommend a cluster of high mountain lakes in the Wind Rivers that have easy access? Also the name of the hike-in point? Many thanks.
If you can get a copy of it, “Flyfisher’s Guide to Wyoming including Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks”, by Ken Retallic, grab it. It has quite a bit of information, starting on page 438. Also, you might want to reference [url=http://www.big-sandy-lodge.com.:51264]www.big-sandy-lodge.com.[/url:51264] They have alot of information on the lakes in the area, how far they are in, and between, and what’s in them.
Trouts don’t live in ugly places
Where’s Okie? He knows allllllll about them mountains. I think he may even have recovered from that trip (mostly).
Wish I could help with your question but it has been way too many years since I was there.
Dennis
You might want to read Rich Osthoff’s new book “Fly-Fishing the Rockey Mountain Backcountry” It has some great information on the area you want to go to and many others. It is by Stackpole Books and Retail’s for $19.95. Ron
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Ahhhh,the Winds…I love them. I have fished a lot their but most of the places I like to go to are at least two days in and a few of them are extremely difficult. The easiest one I have been to for multiple lakes(and I havent been there for a few years so I dont know how the fishing is) would be Big Sandy Entrance. I always went up the highline trail and passed a few lakes, some had good fishing some didnt. There are some other otions from Big Sandy but I never went that route.
Elkhart Park also has some lakes within a close area. I have fished Seneca Lake and Island Lake and had good days and bad days. The area around Island Lake is some of the most spectacular I have seen in any moutnain range. The drawback is that it is a bit of a poke in.
The Galcier Trail trailhead on the East side out Dubois has a few lakes that can be fished but they require a pretty good poke in to get to. Dinwoody Lakes, especially Double and Honeymoon lakes are fun to fish and I have always done very well there. Plan on a two day trek in and a pretty good size hill to climb to get there.
That pretty much covers my experience there with the exception of one lake I left out because it is a beast of a hike to get to, no trail (and requires a ton of bushwacking either thru timber or over/around boulder fields), and no short or easy way to get there. I dont mind it being tough to get to because the last time I was there fishing was insanely awesome which is why I also wont mention the name of the lake .
If you need more help email me and I can help you out a bit more with specifics if I can.
Take care everyone and cya around. Mark
DG,
I am plenty recovered, and wish I could get into more trouble this year. But, life is tough, things didn’t work out for 2005 
Nuthatch,
Lake of the Woods is the only lake I have experience with up in the Wind Rivers, and it has fished well for me in the past (cutties, bows, and grayling). It’s pretty far back into the mountains, but you can drive right to it.