where is a safe spot to park when going to the yuba river for steelies? just by the highway 20 bridge? in addition, are there any other places i can park? planning on going there saturday morning.
If you have 4WD you can drive quite a ways down river on the South side of the bridge and get right out to rivers edge. I've never had any problems parking on the North side under the bridge either.
The road is not bad at all. I see all kinds of cars go down it, you just can't pull out and drive over the river rocks to get right at waters edge. You might have to walk 100 yards or so from where you can park to the water.
thanks for the info guys. Managed to skunk the first day :) then the second day i landed 2 17-19 inchers, and missed a really really really really hard slam. . . . . .
btw, my car did not make it on the south side... so i decided to stay on the other side lol....
as far as the south side goes u can make it in a car if it isnt lowered. i drive a 98 mitzubishi mirage and its stock but sits a lil on the low side, as long as you drive slow and watch were u put your tires you can make it. i have had my car packed with atleast 600 lbs of people in it and even think one time with 800 lbs of fisherman in it and still drove around on that side without any issues, just need to drive slow and you will be fine.
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Fishing isnt about catching fish, its not about who caught the most, or who caught the biggest, its about the experience that you have on the water, and the life long bonds you make with others on the journey to becoming a better person inside.
i still need to explore the river more. farthest ive been upstream, is to the large riffle area past the bridge about a half mile, with a long long run. as for down stream, only to the point where it says no tresspassing or private property lol... you fish the yuba quite often right brian?
You are correct. You cannot legally fish above the large rock wall on river right and river left above the bridge. At very low flows, it is sometimes possible to cross the river to make it up there, but I wouldn't do it when flows come up over 1000 cfs. There is plenty of good water below those rocks and below the bridge though. Good luck.
yes i fish it pretty often i would say atleast once ever week or so. as far as crossing the river is crossable in the usual spots at 1200 its not easy but it can be done if you know where to cross. anything over 1200 and its just like what JT said you will be looking like santa claus in your waders. we crossed that big rock formation and it water was saying hi to the top of our waders, i think it crested on alastair, but he just needs to grow and inch cuz jon and i didnt have any issues.
as far as private property goes, as long as you stay below the high water mark for the yr on the yuba you will be fine. last yr it got pretty high at 25k cfs, this yr i think it was up to 5k cfs, so cant walk as high but you get the drift. as long as your not climbing over the big rock formation you are fine.
-- Edited by brian clemens on Friday 26th of February 2010 09:35:42 AM
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Brian, the high water mark on any one given year is meaningless as far as private property rights/trespassing goes on navigable waters. The correct marker is the "median" high water mark, i.e., average.
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here is a link that will explain everything, one that i have found to be very usefull. after reading it again, drifter is right its the median "ordinary" water mark. dont know where i read high water mark for the yr. i must have just miss read something somewhere.
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The Yuba Outdoor Adventures claim is that they own rights to the middle of the river, much like what Canyon Creek has espoused on Putah. I've heard that it has to do with some type of recreational interpretation of the property boundary??? I would love to find some info out on this. I have looked and been unable to find such information.
Lately, I have fished YOA property, below the high water mark and no one has hassled me or anyone that I have seen. I even asked a couple of YOA members about this issue, and they really new nothing about it. Anyone knoe of a site for this type of info?
Property boundaries do go to the middle of the river, so technically the landowner has property rights extending out that far. However, the general public has an easement to use that property on navigable waters (waters that were navigable at the time the state was incoporated into the union, so how a river flows now isn't relevant), up to the median high water mark. The easement (right to use) is created under the public trust doctrine, a judicially created doctrine in California (which comes from an interpretation of the California Constitution).
Do not know of a good web-site Bob, but I am an attorney and took some water law/natural resource law/property law classes in law school. If you would like some cases to read on the subject I would be happy to point you in the right direction.
-- Edited by drifter on Friday 26th of February 2010 04:57:46 PM
-- Edited by drifter on Friday 26th of February 2010 04:58:55 PM
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planning on going again this friday. I should arrive there around 1 or 2. Then maybe I will go again saturday morning. I just hope it does not rain hard. Sprinkles would be nice.
Fishing isnt about catching fish, its not about who caught the most, or who caught the biggest, its about the experience that you have on the water, and the life long bonds you make with others on the journey to becoming a better person inside.
actually this past storm put deer creek up to 700 cfs, then next day it had a lil color to it but it fished great. the first storm of the yr if it goes over 90 no matter how the flows are on deer creek you are going to get chocolate milk. when its starts to rain hard enough, you need to watch deer creek, if it peaks very fast and drops just as fast, thats what it did in this stomr. if this happens the yuba will be fine to fish, it will a some ting to it, but it will fish great. when the chocolate milk comes into play is when deer creek jumps up quickly in flows and stays at a steady flow for atleast a day or 2, thats when its a chocolate mess, if it does this and the flows are over 200 cfs, go to another river, the yuba will be chocolate milk for a few days. the rain that we are having today hasnt even bumped up deer creek, its actually still falling from the other days storms, right now its at 70cfs it was at 95 yesterday, and its fishing is great right now. hope this helps.
there are some good places to get flows, one is dream flows, the other is http://cdec.water.ca.gov/river but you have to find you river, i like going to americanflyfishing.com then clickin on water flows. all the main rivers are on there with their tributarys.
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Yuba just hit 2600 (with deer creek accounting for 500)......I would think It will be pretty off colored come friday, but hey, you don't know if you don't go. If it is muddy, go big and go dark, fish within the first two feet of the bank (yes, even in the shallow stuff, take off the indicator and swing with a floating line, or swing or dead drift next to big boulders.
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