So I was actually getting in position to make good on the daydream and fish alpine lakes. Here’s the equipment I used:
Zimmerbuilt Tenkara Guide Sling
Usually two tenkara rods: always my GM 39, and something else, on this trip either a TUSA Sato or Rhodo
A TrailLite Designs 24 cm Ti Net. I got the straight handled one. It worked great.
My new Redington Path all in one western rod and reel in its very heavy carrying case.
On the water, I used a pretty pared down set of gear: a Dr Slick mitten clamp (lost at some point and replaced with a hemo from some fly shop), my nippers on a zinger inside the top sling compartment, a 5X tippet guide spool, Loon Aquel floatant, a leader straightener, a spare spool of number 3 level line, some tapered leaders for the western rig, my Yellow lens over-glasses sunglasses, and that’s pretty much it. I took a ton of other stuff, but eventually banished it.
I carried all of my flies in two lightweight C&F boxes, which also fit in the top compartment of the sling:
The first box was mostly the same as the one taken on the June trip. Mostly self-tied, with woolly buggers, plus size killer buggers, bead head hotspot killer bugs, Brassies, Hare and Coppers, Green Weenies, kebaris, foam beetles, Griffith’s Gnats, Frenchies, Foam Eggs, midge larvae, cranefly larvae, pigstickers, beadhead Princes, RS2s and some other things.
The other box had a flip page and was mostly filled with newly purchased flies, including Parachute Adamses, Griffith’s Gnats, Mosquitos, Quasi Pheasant Tails, Flashback Pheasant Tails, Scuds, Soft Hackle Emergers, Royal Wulffs, Humpies, Foam Fly Ants, Foam Beetles, and Stimulators.