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CALIFORNIA UPDATE

Summer flows on the Upper Sac and McCloud, but good hatches early and late

Warmer water on the Truckee

“Springers” on the Trinity

Summer steelies on the Klamath

Fat ‘bows on the Lower Sac

Hex hatch at 9pm on the Fall

Pit staying strong

Hat Creek “fair”

Chrome reported on the Feather

No reports on the Yuba

No steelhead on the American

Upper Owens is good, but Lower is poor

Hot Creek is hanging in there

SNAPSHOTS

NorCal Mountain Lion Attack (S. Fork Yuba, CA)
…it attacked a sleeping camper from Marin County around 1 a.m. Sunday near the Yuba River, northwest of Nevada City.  For as long as two minutes, the man told Fish and Game, "the animal attacked, bit and clawed him through his sleeping bag. He said it bit through the cap he was wearing and his clothes. The animal ceased the attack, looked at him from 15 feet away for another 15-30 seconds, then ran into the night."

Bullseye

Start Your Engines (Yakima, WA)
Good luck, it is time to fish.

Sign Of Summer (Upper Delaware, NY/PA)
”Slop” is starting to be a problem.

More Signs (Beaverkil & Willowemoc, NY)
both rivers are low and warm. They are now too warm to fish at anytime. The Horton section of the Beaverkill is closed as of July 1st through August 31st to protect trout from thermal stress.

Don’t Murder The Trout (Penns, PA)
Penns Creek is getting too warm to fish. Trout have great difficulty extracting oxygen from the water when the water temperature is over 70 degrees. A trout that is released when the water is this warm will most likely die.

Huddling Brookies (Au Sable, MI)
Running a shuttle to Dam 4 just minutes ago showed a sad sight: three different pods of brook trout, arranged by size, huddled in front of three separate springs.  Open.  Exposed.  Heron bait.

Fish Early And Late (Au Sable, MI)
You’ve gotta watch the water temperatures this time of year. Fish early and fish at dusk when the temperatures are cool enough not only to protect the trout, but to find your best opportunities.

So Hot (San Juan, NM)
It's so hot...... Well, you can fill in the blank.

Africa Hot (Au Sable, MI)
Wow it’s hot . . . real hot. Africa hot.

Solar Panel Hot (Owens, CA)
Go elsewhere.  …the weather is only good for rattlesnakes, horny toads and solar panels!

Tricos (Au Sable, MI)

Trico fishing is flat the best way to become a great dry fly angler. Lots of bugs. Lots of fish noticing. Long, fine leaders and tiny flies fished in low, clear water to small, finicky fish may not quite be for everyone, but like practicing drills at basketball camp, it flat makes you a better player. In many ways, trico fishing is the best dry fly angling of the year.  It’s consistent and challenging.

BWO’s – “the real star” (Au Sable, MI)

The real star of the show . . . the big blue-winged olive .  This one occurs toward the end of the trico hatch each morning and can bring up the next class of trout.

Cicadas (Colorado, AZ)
Its been a few since the last up date so I will give you a brief look at whats happening for the month of July.  CICADAS.

Bull Trout (McKenzie, OR)

Reflective Blogger Moves East (Oregon to Ohio)
Arguably, I’ve been on the sidelines for the last couple years anyway. The pressure cooker of a young family, a wife pursuing a PhD, and a new job really put the brakes on my activism, and fishing.  And when I try to rationalize this move, I tell myself “Hell, with my parents helping out with Paul, and the money I’ll save living in a post-Industrial wasteland, I’ll be fishing in Oregon about as much as I do now anyway!” And while we all know that’s probably not going to happen, I can promise to try.  What I’m trying to say is that I’ll miss all of you, and this place, dearly. I wasn’t born here, but chose this place as my home.