My plan this year is to fish Consultation and UBSL and not bother with the mountain since I have already done that, but there are no longer any walk up permits so I may not get to those lakes after all. Funny how almost everyone on that trail is there exclusively to summit Whitney with no other purpose but that. All the lakes that have fish are as a result of stocking but the conditions are such that they continue to spawn and thrive, They don’t have the same fishing pressures as other lakes to in the eastern sierra but I suspect there was a time in the distant past when more fishermen visited the area than just mountain climbers. With all the huppla to summit the tallest mountain in the lower 48, the fishermen have gone elsewhere, but I’m still interested and trying to dial in the on-line reservation site so I can score an overnight ticket on the main trail or the north fork.
