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Home | Fishing Home | Fishing Report | Guide Services Pre Labor Day Lake Mary Report By Don Meier Have been fishing Lake Mary consistently at least 3 times a week for the last 3 weeks, and the fishing has been great. You need to get your lures deep if trolling. At least 5-6 colors of lead core line followed by 30-40 ft of flourocarbon leader. Usually 8# leader is fine. Needlefish, Tazmanian Devils, Thomas Bouyants, and small floating Rapalas are all working. Early and late is best, but you can catch fish all day long. Another lure working especially good is Arctic Fox tube flies in Brown and the chartruese. Pull these flies just like lures at 5-6 colors deep in 30-50 feet of water. I need to also tell you about the Bear problem around Lake Mary. Watch your kids if you are shore fishing the lake. Almost every time I am trolling the lake I see bears cruising the shore looking for stringers of fish to steal. You do not want your kids to come between a mom and her cubs who she is training how to get an easy meal. These bears really do not care about us, they only want our stringers of fish. 7/24/07 Lake Mary Report By Don Meier Fished the lake this morning and had a ball. Must have caught 20-25 rainbows, and my first brookie of the year. All the fish were caught trolling in 25-50 feet of water at 5-6 colors of leadcore line. Almost any lure put in the water produced but most consistent was a bikini needlefish with gold back. Also caught fish on size 7 floating rapalas, arctic fox trolling flies, Tazmanian Devils all fished at 5-6 colors. Got chased off the lake by our first real rainstorm around noon. Oh yea, I witnessed a black bear steal a father and son's stringer over by the inlet. Earlier in the day I saw another bear cruising the shore from the inlet towards Lake Mamie, but none of the stringers had fish in them. Be warned. 7/10/07 Upper Owens River Report By Nick Lawton Upper Owens: 108 c.f.s. The Upper Owens is fishing very, very, well right now as their are plenty of fish in the system at this time. The caddis hatch has been very strong in the mornings with a few p.m.d.'s flying around, mixed in with some midges. I would suggest fishing below the bridge right now as there are good numbers of fish holding in the deeper pools and oxbow bends in the lower reaches at this time. I would suggest fishing two rods here at this time. One with a dry/dropper combination and one with a two nymph rig. Caddis Pupa, Diving Caddis, and Caddis Larva are some of the suggested flies for this week. Good luck and happy hunting! 6/14/07 Weekend on the East Walker By JR Porter The East Walker is fishing as well as I’ve seen it. If the truth is told, after a few years of being knocked around on the tuff river, I had a few days of luck and won a round. Over two consecutive days of fishing, I was able to nymph, throw dry-dropper and dry-dry. All three techniques worked well. I mixed up my flies between baetis, caddis and midges. The two highlights of the fishing trip were an evening caddis hatch and landing my biggest brown (22in). Thanks to shop guides Nick Lawton and Andrew Sears’ advice I was able to land a memorable fish on a difficult piece of water. 
6/04/07 Early season fishing trip to the San Joaquin River, Starkweather and Sotcher pays off By JR Porter Early season fishing trip to the San Joaquin River, Starkweather and Sotcher pays off. With a forecast of wind, a friend and myself decided to head down to the San Joaquin River to be sheltered and have a productive day of fishing. My plan was to head straight to the river but as we passed Starkweather, a lake full of rings resulted in an abrupt u-turn. Excited about the lively lake, we geared up quickly and headed to the north shore of the lake. Starting at 8AM, 20 plus fish were landed in about 2-3 hours as we circled the lake. None of the fish had any size to them but fishing was a blast. It reminded me of a backcountry lake. Instead of a six-mile hike with 50 pounds on your back, it was a six-mile drive with a seven-dollar bus ride to get the same results. A stimulator or an Adams with a midge dropper had the best results while fly fishing. An orange power worm and bubble landed the most fishing while spin fishing.
Next we headed to the river. With flows a little high but still fishable, I continue with a dry fly and dropper(Midging would have killed it). The results were the same. Trying to mix it up a little, I switched to two dry flies. The pools and behind eddies seemed to be holding the most fish. A bubble with a worm or Wolly Bugger seemed to produced fish while spin fishing. If you plan to fish the river, wading is a must.
The last stop was to Sotcher Lake. With the wind starting to pick up and having landed so many fish, I grabbed my spin rod. It didn’t really matter what we tossed out, the results were the same. We fished with everything from yellow power bait to Gulp eggs. Within an hour multiple double hook up were a reoccurring event. I definately recommend heading down before the water level drop to low. The campgrounds are opening up this Saturday, so the pressure may slow down the fishing. BACK TO TOP |
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