Foxgap239
Active member
- Joined
- Jun 29, 2011
- Messages
- 2,101
Well I had some time after work yesterday so I got to fish a different stream for a couple of hours. And when I say different stream, I really mean different in so many ways. As the pictures hopefully will show this is a truly unique stream. This was my 3rd or 4th trip to this stream and I know there are wild browns, as a matter of fact, two years ago I got my biggest brown in CA out of this stream, about 13”. You will probably scratch your head saying how in the hell did he get something 13 out of that trickle! Surprised the heck out of me that’s for sure.
I wasn’t at all optimistic at finding water in this stream let alone fish knowing what it looks like normally and also knowing about their drought issues. First off, you drive over the stream to get to the parking area but there is about a half mile or so where the stream is normally underground so you have no idea if it is flowing until you park and walk about ¼ mile up the hiking path. (Oh, if anyone is interested in fishing out here, all of the streams I post are in National Forest areas and not only do you need a fishing license, you also need a pass to park in the “fee” areas. I buy an annual pass which costs $30 and like the new NY license, it last 12 months from date of purchase. They do have day passes which I think are $5 per day.) I was pleasantly surprised to hear water running as I got close to where I usually start fishing but it didn’t take me long to notice something had really changed. I hadn’t been here since the fall of last year when it was pretty much the same as the first time I fished it but they must have had a tremendous flood. We are talking big granite rock pools which had been moved and the stream altered to where I was fishing a completely new stream. The pool at the top of the stretch were I caught my big boy was totally gone and it was the biggest pool in the creek. About 100 yards further upstream was completely dry because the stream went underground now. I caught maybe 8 or 10 fish, nothing bigger than 7”. I saw 1 or 2 fish bigger that noticed my fly but never hit. Good day but nothing like what I’d seen in the past.
Prior to getting out yesterday I watched a YouTube video about fishing it and to my surprise found out there was a lower and upper creek. Apparently the lower creek has wild bows. I had dinner plans so I needed to get on my way so I changed out of my fishing clothes and headed back to the hotel. I got out of the parking lot and about half a mile down the road saw a pull off where a car was on my drive up. I parked and walked down and sure enough the stream had re-emerged. I grabbed up rod (no waders though) and walked down and cast in, second cast up comes a fish who splashes at the fly but doesn’t take it. I walk down a pool and cast, bang fish hits. 4” wild bow. I couldn’t walk too far without boots and knowing I had to get back for dinner. I will hit the lower stretch on my next visit though.
Hope you enjoyed my verbose description of this “tiny” stream.
I wasn’t at all optimistic at finding water in this stream let alone fish knowing what it looks like normally and also knowing about their drought issues. First off, you drive over the stream to get to the parking area but there is about a half mile or so where the stream is normally underground so you have no idea if it is flowing until you park and walk about ¼ mile up the hiking path. (Oh, if anyone is interested in fishing out here, all of the streams I post are in National Forest areas and not only do you need a fishing license, you also need a pass to park in the “fee” areas. I buy an annual pass which costs $30 and like the new NY license, it last 12 months from date of purchase. They do have day passes which I think are $5 per day.) I was pleasantly surprised to hear water running as I got close to where I usually start fishing but it didn’t take me long to notice something had really changed. I hadn’t been here since the fall of last year when it was pretty much the same as the first time I fished it but they must have had a tremendous flood. We are talking big granite rock pools which had been moved and the stream altered to where I was fishing a completely new stream. The pool at the top of the stretch were I caught my big boy was totally gone and it was the biggest pool in the creek. About 100 yards further upstream was completely dry because the stream went underground now. I caught maybe 8 or 10 fish, nothing bigger than 7”. I saw 1 or 2 fish bigger that noticed my fly but never hit. Good day but nothing like what I’d seen in the past.
Prior to getting out yesterday I watched a YouTube video about fishing it and to my surprise found out there was a lower and upper creek. Apparently the lower creek has wild bows. I had dinner plans so I needed to get on my way so I changed out of my fishing clothes and headed back to the hotel. I got out of the parking lot and about half a mile down the road saw a pull off where a car was on my drive up. I parked and walked down and sure enough the stream had re-emerged. I grabbed up rod (no waders though) and walked down and cast in, second cast up comes a fish who splashes at the fly but doesn’t take it. I walk down a pool and cast, bang fish hits. 4” wild bow. I couldn’t walk too far without boots and knowing I had to get back for dinner. I will hit the lower stretch on my next visit though.
Hope you enjoyed my verbose description of this “tiny” stream.
