06-08-2008, 02:56 PM
Most of my experience has been in central Idaho, the Frank Church Wilderness area has numerous different alpine lakes that offer excellent fishing. Depending on where you're starting off from, it could take more than a couple of hours to reach most of the trailheads. One nice alpine lake that you can drive right to is Iron Lake. Excellent campground and there's a second lake that's about a quarter of a mile below if you follow the outlet.
You can also hike over to Hat Creek Lakes from the Iron Lake campground. It's a difficult hike but there are some really nice lakes back in there. In fact, I've attached a picture of one of them.
Bayhorse both upper and lower are also lakes that you can drive to and can hold some pretty nice fish. The upper lake requires a 4wd to get into it, although it's not too far to hike it and you can drive right to the lower lake in just about any vehicle. All I know is that with the heavy snows from last winter and the cool Spring we're having, gaining access to most alpine lakes this year will be at least a month later than usual.
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You can also hike over to Hat Creek Lakes from the Iron Lake campground. It's a difficult hike but there are some really nice lakes back in there. In fact, I've attached a picture of one of them.
Bayhorse both upper and lower are also lakes that you can drive to and can hold some pretty nice fish. The upper lake requires a 4wd to get into it, although it's not too far to hike it and you can drive right to the lower lake in just about any vehicle. All I know is that with the heavy snows from last winter and the cool Spring we're having, gaining access to most alpine lakes this year will be at least a month later than usual.
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