You will find that a majority of people like to fish above the bridge on highway 20 (parks bar bridge), however, i would suggest fishing below the bridge (if your interested in fishing arm to arm then by all means, go above the bridge). Try parking at the bridge and walking down, there a couple nice runs close by, also, Try hammond grove, its right next to sycamore ranch, but doesn't cost you to pay, it is right off of higway 20 and there is a sign off the road. I'll be out there tomorrow, maybe i'll see you out there.
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I cross the river just a bit upriver from the hammond grove parking lot sometimes, Good spot. Cross the river and it opens up alot more water for you to fish.
I crossed the hwy20 bridge yesterday on the way back from a Jeep snow run. Despite the recent weather the water conditions looked good (disclaimer: older guy with poor eyes driving over the bridge looking through dirty windows). Certainly not brown water and I'd guess flows were 1,200 or perhaps a bit less.
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Fished lower Yuba yesterday under bridge, water little off color and flowing a little higher then last couple weeks. A little rain certainly makes a difference. There was one other person there when I started. Fished the deep pool at the rocks and pulled two nice fish to 16. One on #16 micro-may, other on #16 cdc caddis emerger. Moved down stream just around the bend and got the big one of the day, well over 20 also on the emerger. I have good results with this fly.
Hey Tug, the Lower Yuba is an amazing place, the first time I fished it I caught my very first Chromer that was 20 inches on a 5-wt rod wow! Then caught two rainbows in the 16 inch range that day. However the next four times I fished there I got into nothing, skunked! That was a challenge to get through. Finally I met some old timers that were nice enough to tutor me on the river and now I go and have good success but its still a challenge each time. The river and the bows can be very sly, so don't be discouraged, its big and there's lots of water to cover. Just don't try and eat the whole pie all at once, focus on one slice and chew it well, then take another.
I guided the Yuba on Friday and was only expecting about 3-4 feet of visibility with deer creek flowing around 100cfs. When I showed up at the river it was like last weeks storm never even happened. The Yuba was extremely clear and there was about 6 feet of visibility. With all of the rain I am sure that deer creek has to be pumping quite a bit of color into the water but it probably is fishable. Friday the fishing was good but not excellent. We hooked 17 rainbows and landed 10 of them. The hot flies were rubberlegs, copper johns, and small olive caddis patterns. The morning was pretty slow with hardly any bugs on the water. We hooked the majority of our fish after 1PM. The cool thing is that we landed two big yuba rainbows with one going 23" and the other 21". Those big fish really pull on that river.
Yuba is currently flowing 6300 right now,(normally fishes best from 800-2000) half out of Englebright and half from deer creek, needless to say, other than by drift boat, expect it to be blown out the next couple days (although clarity may be an issue for the boaters as well). Good thing is, this is the first time they have let water out of Englebright during the non-farming season in the last year and a half.
its now 8000 at the bridge, 10000 below diguere -- Edited by drifter at 18:31, 2009-02-23
-- Edited by drifter at 10:11, 2009-02-24
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