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Hit the Lower Yuba yesterday on a whim.  The spring crowds are beginning already as there were 10 guys above the bridge.  The  half inch of rain from wednesday put
only a slight tinge in the water, which was even lower than 10 days ago.  My guess is that is reaching 700 CFS and must be at minimum allowable flow rate.

Got into a couple of decent fish and lost a couple nice ones as well.  Small nymphs in green worked well, with Hogan's S&M working the best.  I did have a couple of Skwala's land on me during the day!!!  There were only a couple and the fish are not keyed in on them yet.  There were also BWO and PMD hatches.  There were some HUGE fish slurping every PMD off the surface in the slicks, however, the water is so calm and clear, they just are not taking flies thrown at them.  I was on 6X floro with a leader built out to 15" and no luck.

I did catch a nice sized steelhead, I'd say 23", but it was the most beat up, tired and ugly fish you ever saw.  I was able to bring him to foot and remove the fly by hand.  He was all beat up.  He was way too chrome to be a salmon and did fight, unlike a salmon, but he was just trashed.

I'll bet the real Skwala hatch will hit in early Feb. as usual.  Well, it's off to Mexico for some golf and tequila next week . . . can't wait.

  

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I compared some notes with some friends. Aquatic worms are coming out of the mud. Red San Juan worms are hot right now.

AB

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I threw a burgundy SJ Worm, size 14 for about an hour, no takes on it.  I figured that after the rain, a few worms would be floating around.  If they were, I guess I was the wrong size and/or color.

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Hey OW that was me on the other side of the river with the black dog up stream from the bridge. Didn't know it was you till you posted!


Q for all :  On an average day fishing the Yuba how many fish are you guys hooking into and landing? or what do you all consider a really good day of fishing on the Yuba?



-- Edited by RippenLips on Sunday 17th of January 2010 06:39:31 PM

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You were fishing on the rocks up at the pool?  If so that was me right across from you in the AM.  I am very pleased if I land 6-8 fish on the Yuba.  Some days more, many days less.

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Hey Bob


   I fished the Yuba 1/15 drifted from the old highway 20 bridge to sycamore ranch. I also used a burgandy sj with no results. I looked under the rocks and found mayflies hatching in great numbers and little tan worms about 1 inch long had none with me bummer, seen a few risers tossed a humpy but no takes. When the water clears after all the rain this week and clears up still have to make a couple more drifts with two other types of drift boats I'm choosing two out of the three I have. Look forward to meeting you on the river sometime. Take Care hopefully better fishing next time.  Jeff

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For me 5 fish to hand would be a pretty good day on the yuba. I just haven't put alot of time in on that river, And in my opinion its the type of river one must put alot of time in to be rewarded.

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Ya that was me and my dog Jack. I sure love fishing that hole, some really big fish. wow 100,000 cfs thats crazy!

-- Edited by RippenLips on Tuesday 19th of January 2010 08:35:28 AM

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Its going to be blown for awhile. Flows came up from 800 to 2,880 in 24 hours. Going to be interesting to watch some flows this week. Upper sac. projected to hit possible 100,000 cfs.

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when jt and i went up a 2 weeks back we hooked into 20-22 fish. as far as landing thats another story, i landed 6 and jt, well ill let him tell you how many he landed. my average is between 6-10 fish landed and double that for hook ups.

as far as blowing out goes, the flows on the yuba can jump a good amount without being blown out aka chocolate milk, the problem with the yuba is deer creek, if that blows out thats when the yuba becomes chocolate milk. the key word with the yuba having color other than gin clear is "EDGES"

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brian clemens wrote:

when jt and i went up a 2 weeks back we hooked into 20-22 fish. as far as landing thats another story, i landed 6 and jt, well ill let him tell you how many he landed. my average is between 6-10 fish landed and double that for hook ups.

as far as blowing out goes, the flows on the yuba can jump a good amount without being blown out aka chocolate milk, the problem with the yuba is deer creek, if that blows out thats when the yuba becomes chocolate milk. the key word with the yuba having color other than gin clear is "EDGES"


You average 20 hookups a trip? Damn you're good. Not even the guides average that many hookups.

 



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i saw this one coming from a mile away eric. i should have called it. you and your shenanigans. i know u dont believe me or ever will, but what ever. but yes me and jt both hooked into atleast 10 fish a piece that day, so total of 20 hook ups that day between the 2 of us.

inorder to hook fish, u must first wet your line




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LilWhippersnapper wrote:

 

brian clemens wrote:

when jt and i went up a 2 weeks back we hooked into 20-22 fish. as far as landing thats another story, i landed 6 and jt, well ill let him tell you how many he landed. my average is between 6-10 fish landed and double that for hook ups.

as far as blowing out goes, the flows on the yuba can jump a good amount without being blown out aka chocolate milk, the problem with the yuba is deer creek, if that blows out thats when the yuba becomes chocolate milk. the key word with the yuba having color other than gin clear is "EDGES"


You average 20 hookups a trip? Damn you're good. Not even the guides average that many hookups.

 

 

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i saw this one coming from a mile away eric. i should have called it. you and your shenanigans. i know u dont believe me or ever will, but what ever. but yes me and jt both hooked into atleast 10 fish a piece that day, so total of 20 hook ups that day between the 2 of us.

inorder to hook fish, u must first wet your line

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IMO Its getting old guys!  If you guys want to take little jabs at each other do it through the PM system.






-- Edited by BigOkieWhiteBoy916 on Tuesday 19th of January 2010 09:43:22 PM

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Brian, I never doubted that you and JT hooked that many fish... I'm talking about your average hook up per trip. I doubt you average 15 to 20 hookups every trip. Every time I've gone with you I've only seen you land 3 or 4 with maybe a couple of other hook ups.

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Great weather, eh?

Keep an eye on the flows before you decide to go out in this winter weather.

http://cdec.water.ca.gov/river/yubaStages.html

Have fun if you decide to go out.

AB

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hell ya its the best weather yet, fish are moving, fish are hungry, and they are wackin the crap out of some streamers. oh ya and no one is on the water. it should be like this through the weekend so enjoy it while u can.

STEELHEAD WEATHER. YA BABY YAAAAAA!!!!!

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Are you guys sure there are trout on the Yuba?  I have been fishing there for years and all I catch are striped bass and suckers...

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dont forget about the musky, lots of big muskys in that river

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  So How about a Fly fishing tournament perhaps on the Yuba....A 10 hr tourney with a 12 oclock "weigh in" to see if you advance to the next and final one at 5 or so competing for a "Stanly Cup" type trophy, meaning you get to keep it till the next Yuba Tourney  where you are fishing to keep the trophy, and not lose it to someone. You then get your name and date engraved on it and the names on the tophy will change hands many times and the list will grow and it will be cool.


**How many people would want to enter in a tourney?**


lets get this started, the more people the better it will be.



-- Edited by RippenLips on Wednesday 20th of January 2010 11:30:56 AM

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my vote would be: I



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brian clemens wrote:

when jt and i went up a 2 weeks back we hooked into 20-22 fish. as far as landing thats another story, i landed 6 and jt, well ill let him tell you how many he landed. my average is between 6-10 fish landed and double that for hook ups.


I got dogged that day.  We both hooked the same amount of fish, but I couldn't get a single fish to hand.  I call it the vacation curse.  I fished the American twice, the Yuba once, and the Little Truckee twice.  I hooked fish everyday--lots of fish on a couple of days--and didn't land a single fish.  I guess I'm just rusty.

 



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Whoa!  Now we're talking.  The board needed some spice!  I'd like to see this go down.  Pay per view?

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I AM IN

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Who will judge? I'm not going to rely on any individual being completely honest with hook up or catch rates. Gotta see it to believe itwink

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I would be happy to be a judge.  There will probably be two needed as I don't believe it would be in everyone's interest to fish the same spot.  We don't want to have to hear the "well he fished all of the good spots" excuse.  Of course, I will probably fish behind whomever I'm judging (and yes, I will have a camera in hand to document the experience), and if I catch more than either of the two, I get the trophy smile 

-- Edited by drifter on Thursday 21st of January 2010 05:23:43 PM

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i have a digital camera with hours of free video time. so we gonna do this in teams.

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Well two Ideas for judges, we can ask for volunteers  or everyone take a camera with them. I agreee though we arent going to go on the honor system here on this one! I'm sure there is enough people on this site that would be willing to go judge this event...
BC good point, teams of two would be cool or it can be every man for himself.. I think it should be every man for himself, what does everyone else think about it?


-- Edited by RippenLips on Friday 22nd of January 2010 09:10:03 AM

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just wondering how this even came up. a contest on who can fish better. i think a good time would be when the skwala and march browns come off. some mid to late feb to early march.

hey maybe lilwhippersnapper and dr bombay would like to join in on this lil contest. how about it guys.

and as far as best spots goes. the early worm catches the fish.

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I don't need to show off my skills in front of you... You already know how good I am.

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I'll pass.

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