Arofishing

I'd like to hear more about some of those lakes. I'm in Riverside for the next 5-6 years. Not that I have any time to get away, but I'd try my best to make it. I went up to Yosemite to fly fish before school started. There wasn't much water, but I managed to find some smaller trout. But that was like a 7 hour drive, not feasible to do over a weekend.

Still 90 degrees in the desert. Man, WHY DID I MOVE TO THE FREAKING DESERT!?! And why do I keep reading this forum despite being 2,000+ miles away!?!

That sucks about the bird and the fire.

I think the taboo in this case relates to the fact that Crane is NOW designated a blue ribbon fishery. Bait fishing isn't allowed. More generally, I'd say any taboo surrounding bait fishing for trout has to do with them being very selective, and bait being a lazy/cheap way to catch a fish that can otherwise be quite difficult. That and all fly fishermen are snobs .

Dennis, Where did you go on the McCloud? I'll be moving to California in a few weeks and would certainly appreciate any info you could give about fishing there.

We'll wade all day Sunday if we get our fill we'll head out for a short canoe trip Monday. Thing is my friend will be floating on Saturday, and I know there is plenty of good water between the spring and the state campground. Thanks for the info re: fishing near the spring. We'll keep that in mind.

OK. Access was my concern. I didn't want to walk to the branch (via 19) only to discover I couldn't get in the water, or discover that I could only get in the river by getting up to my neck in water. We'll likely just walk the river up from 19 and go back down. It will take a long time but that's fine.

In a couple weeks I plan on camping at the state site and wading the water near there. My question is: can one wade from Greer Spring to the 19 hwy bridge? I was told in passing by someone at Richard's that this was possible, but wanted to confirm before I walk all the way there from the campsite.

Used a box from a Fish Itch deal a while back:

Thanks for the ideas. I may just take a regular tackle box sleeve, remove all the compartments, and glue some foam in there. That would be good for bigger flies. I also already use tackle box sleeves for flies anyway. Something a bit smaller would be ideal though.

Wow.

I hear ya. I was using a hopper/dropper combo at the Eleven Point a couple weeks ago and realized I didn't tie enough tippet below the hopper. Was I really going to retie all of that again? I decided not to, and that's why I was asking, so next time I'd have a better idea of length. Of course it depends on the water you're fishing too. Thanks

Jealous! Nice fish, hopefully that's me when I get there in a couple weeks. How much line did you have between your hopper and nymph? Did you use weight for the nymph? Looks like the water in your pic is pretty slow, were you fishing slower water?

I wish. I'll be outside of LA. I'll get up there as often as I can, trust me.

Well, it seems I saved my best for last. One of my last floats in MO for sometime (moving to California in August) was great. My wife and some friends of ours floated from Greer to Riverton this weekend. I got there a bit early to do some fishing before everyone else arrived. Aside from some hiccups (thunderstorm blowing in from the wrong direction, necessitating a hasty retreat from the river and back to the tent to put on the rain fly, tipping a canoe and losing some stuff), this was my favorite float of my young trout fishing career. I caught about a dozen trout, and had at least that many that got off. I also caught my biggest trout. I caught 3-4 near or over 14", all very healthy, and then on Saturday, I caught a fat rainbow over 16". I have video/pictures if my wife's phone ever functions again after getting submerged. The biggest fish was such a treat. No one else in the party fished, and that was the first one they saw me catch. As soon as I announced I had a fish on it jumped about 3 feet in the air, and did that two more times during the 5-10 minutes it took to bring it in. I'll caution, again, anyone heading around the turn below Turners. It took out one of our canoes and then knocked another person off (fortunately that canoe didn't tip). It would be nice if there was some signage there. I would definitely recommend just walking by, as it seems to be about a 50/50 proposition.