The Carbineers

mnt_tiska wrote: Were there any fish on the fly?

yes, all came out on dry fly (small stimulator and parachute adams). All where rainbow trout, some pics:





maybe someday i'll get back to fish it properly

Were these shots the actual shots from the river, how big were the fish?

Serious tribe wrote: Were these shots the actual shots from the river, how big were the fish?

yes, from Langalibalele river. Fish where not very big, between 8 - 12 inches.

I have a photo of some of them (a beautiful dark brown colour) from April 2012. The photo was about 2km south of Langies pass. Why move when you have food, water and a view like that...

Many thanks for uploading the pics firephish. The parachute adams is in the mouth of the fish in the lower pic, no? Nice light on the rainbow in the top image.

30cm, what is the legal limit?

They are great images, what camera did you use?

In SA there is no legal limit since trout are considered invasive, not sure wrt to legal limit is lesotho, i never kill fish (catch & release).

Pics where taken with a water proof point & shoot (olympus though 8000). Thanks, I was thinking they didn't come out that well, have got much better in the past.

Serious tribe wrote: 30cm, what is the legal limit?
They are great images, what camera did you use?

think its a small stimulator

mnt_tiska wrote: Many thanks for uploading the pics firephish. The parachute adams is in the mouth of the fish in the lower pic, no? Nice light on the rainbow in the top image.

So - yesterday as part of a day hike I bagged 3 more of the Carbineers. Of the 7 I am now only missing Mount Durnford.

I have to say that the 6 I have done so far are all worthwhile. I'm not going to try and rate each of them in order of most to least impressive seeing as all were really special and worth the effort.

I'll post some pics a bit later - but I will say this, we did the 3 as per Bill Barnes (the 3 obvious peaks between Durnford and Langies - this can only mean the 3 marked 3148m, 3156m and 3141m), but just to be sure we also climbed the peak marked as Erskine on the map. The peak marked as Erskine on the Geomaps series has prominence of around 5m off the real Erskine. It has a pretty cool view looking down at Langies and across at Thumb and Bannerman, but definitely is nothing more than a little bump on a ridge.