Production Lake
Brook trout at 10,181 feet, sitting below the bench with a hundred foot cliff above the water. Come at it from the shore side, not from above.
Paddle Lake
Three acres at 10,070 feet in the middle of a tight cluster on the shelf, an eighth of a mile from Recruitment. No trail reaches any of them.
Pneumonia Lake
Three and a half acres at 9,863 feet with an unobstructed view of the Cathedral Spires. Seven tenths of a mile and 450 feet above Splinter Lake.
Hunger Lake (Finger Lake)
Brook trout three tenths of a mile east of Splinter, the closest fishing water to a camp up there. Also listed on some maps as Finger Lake.
Moccasin Lake
Good camping in the upper basin, with good sites, firewood and brook trout over a sand bottom. Three tenths of a mile south of Splinter.
Peanut Lake
A quarter mile short of Splinter on the way up Sky Top Creek, and the last small water before the bench opens out.
Splinter (Sliver) Lake
Six and three quarter miles in, and the basecamp for the whole upper Clarks Fork. Brook trout at 9,482 feet with the entire shelf a day trip away.
Reed Lake (Lower Vernon)
Under three miles on trail past Lillis and Vernon, with a bushwhack to the shore and mosquitoes that earn the word extreme.
Vernon Lake
Two and a half miles on maintained trail past Lillis, with brook trout and cutthroat both listed. Bushwhack the last stretch to the water.
Margaret Lake
Two and a half miles past Lillis, with the last two tenths off trail through timber thick with bear sign. Yellowstone cutthroat at the end of it.
Lillis Lake
Under two miles in, and the gateway to every lake on the Russell Creek trail. Bank right just before Kersey, brook trout and flat ground at the end.