Yuba Report

JT · Senior Member

Yuba Report

shon42073 · Senior Member

So you want a yuba report ha ? Me and whippersnapper made it there saturday from about 8:30 till dark. Hiked a ways upriver and around noon pmd's came off THICK, followed by march browns and a few skwala's. Instead of fishing a dry I stuck with emergers thourghout the hatch and managed about 5 hookups in about 2 hours just working a hares ear emerger with a hares ear soft hackle dropper just under the surface, and the fish loved em both. The fish of the day was about a 19 incher that wore my arm out. Later in the evening a nice hatch of brownish/orange bodied mayfly's came but the fish didnt seem as interested in them as the earlier pmd and march browns, Anyone know what these mayflys are called ? As we walked back to the car there were a group of fish working in less then 10 inches of water right along the bank, made a few half hearted casts to em and called it a day. One thing I'll add is this, I saw more bugs on the water in a hour at the yuba then i'll see in a week at putah, the yuba is a freaking bug factory !

LilWhippersnapper · Senior Member

I caught a massive 13 incher on a 18 olive micro may.

Emerger · Senior Member

Sounds like a good day Captain!

JT · Senior Member

Nice report, Captain.� Any pics of that 19"er?� You gotta love those hard-fighting fish.� What size were those brownish-orange-colored mayflies?

Flying Dutchman · Senior Member

With all of these great reports, I need to plan a trip...Thanks Captain!

JT · Senior Member

Captain,

If I had to make a guess on those evening mayflies, I would say they were spinners, possibly pmd's.

shon42073 · Senior Member

not spinners, these were duns.

1MoreCast · Member

I agree with you Captain, the Yuba's bug life is looking strong.

Otter · Senior Member

Nice job guys!! Low floating emergers and dries are my favorite on the Yuba. The X caddis has been productive in past years. The bugs along the bank could have been skwalas. The guy I talked to last week was catching fish on Skwala dries along the bank in the slower water.

There are lots of fish close to shore on the Yuba. Before you step in to the water make sure you throw a few casts!!!

SK60 · Senior Member

Question (so I don't have to look it up): is the Yuba designated as a wild trout fishery?

LilWhippersnapper · Senior Member

There were definatley fish feeding on squalas up close to the banks. Once we saw some hatch there were fish rising about 10-15 feet out. I had one good take on a hopper.

JT · Senior Member

SK60 wrote:

Question (so I don't have to look it up): is the Yuba designated as a wild trout fishery?

I don't believe the Yuba River is designated as a wild trout fishery.

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shon42073 · Senior Member

The yuba isnt a wild trout river, theres hatchery fish in there.

dtp916 · Senior Member

I've never heard of the Lower Y having hatchery fish, maybe a clipped steelhead... confused

LilWhippersnapper · Senior Member

dtp916 wrote:

I've never heard of the Lower Y having hatchery fish, maybe a clipped steelhead...

I think that's what he's saying.

drifter · Senior Member

lower yuba is not a wild trout fisherie, although dept of fish and game cand desginate a body of water as a wild rout fisherie although there are hatchery steelhead if such hatchery fish are (something like viewed as crucial to reproductivty of native strain?) here is a complete list of designated wild trout fishering if your interested.
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA WATERS
Big Lake
Burney Creek
Eastman Lake
Fall River
Grass Valley Creek Reservoir
Hat Creek
Lower McCloud River
Pit River
Upper Sacramento River
Manzanita Lake
Middle Fork Stony Creek
Stone Lagoon
Tule River
Upper Klamath River
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA WATERS
Bear Creek
Deep Creek
Piru Creek
Sespe Creek
West Fork San Gabriel River
EAST SLOPE SIERRA NEVADA WATERS
Cottonwood Creek
Cottonwood Lakes
Crowley Lake
East Fork Carson River
Heenan Lake
East Walker River
Hot Creek
Kirman Lake
Lane Lake
Laurel Lakes
Little Truckee
Lower Owens River
Martis Creek Lake
McLeod Lake
Roosevelt Lake
Sagehen Creek
Slinkard Creek
Truckee River
Upper Truckee River
Upper Owens River
WEST SLOPE SIERRA NEVADA WATERS
Clavey River
Kern River
Lake Eleanor
Marble Fork Kaweah River
Merced River
Milton Lake
Middle Fork Feather River
Middle Fork Stanislaus River
Middle Fork San Joaquin River
Nelson Creek
North Fork American River
North Fork Yuba River
Rubicon River
South Fork Kern River
South Fork Kings River
South Fork Merced River
Upper Kings River
Tuolumne River
Yellow Creek
COASTAL STREAMS
Big Sur River
Carmel River
Middle Fork Eel River
San Lorenzo River

dtp916 · Senior Member

LOL. Thanks for the list. I know it is not designated as a "Wild Trout" fishery, but there is only wild fish in it......they don't plant it is what I'm saying. Yuba fish ARE wild. Hatchery junk don't look or fight like that.

And Hat Creek is heavily planted (yes the wild trout area isn't), Upper Sac is planted, Truckee is planted - yes even in the "Wild Trout" water - by the Flycasters. Many of the fish around the Glenshire area are holdovers and planters- and they have their adipose fins (private hatchery stock).

-- Edited by dtp916 at 20:33, 2008-04-06

-- Edited by dtp916 at 20:36, 2008-04-06

Vix · Member

�� ...I saw a adipose�fin clipped 23' chromie� last week caught�with a dry fly�in the Yuba. Are those fish from a hatchery?�Or did a �Feather river fish just�make a wrong turn.�� Vix

drifter · Senior Member

yuba does not have a hatchery, those fish are from the feather, you hear about one being caught every now and then this time of year.