Just looking for a little info... Â I have been having a hard time finding the fish. Â I have been fishing the Yuba with a size 22 midge... Â no luck. Â Can anyone give me some help... the water is pretty high and brown
Which bar are you in right now? Apparently it has good cell phone reception! I know you're enjoying a frosty one.
Chris, I find that if you go down to a size 24 tan caddis pupa, that the fish have an uncanny way of detecting it in the brown water. Give it a try for a half day and tell me how it works,
BobÂ
-- Edited by ONEWEIGHT on Thursday 9th of December 2010 09:44:41 PM
Anyone fishing the Yuba? If I had some time to fish, I would fish the side channels right now. At 1400cfs the fish should be in the channels. Eggs, legs, and worms????? It used be that everyone would only fish the Yuba with dry flies.... The fly fishing world has changed I guess.
Fished it Sunday with Richard and Brandon, fished well. #3ft Viz, but other than that it was fun. Got my biggest Steelhead on the Yuba that day. Yes I said Steelhead. Took a leggy fly that I tie. Glad I was using my 10ft 7wt that day, The fish were hot all day. I was also swinging a bit that day too, got 5-7 tugs with one big fish on for a few seconds that popped off. I think I might head up there tomorrow or friday depending on the flows of deer creek. The viz right now isnt due to deer creek, its coming out of the dam that way.
-- Edited by brian clemens on Thursday 16th of December 2010 08:20:55 AM
__________________
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 think i fished it a week or so ago...Fishing was slow.I was there for 5 hrs and only got 10 fish per hour...Had to stop for lunch twice....Fished my lame set up...i dont think Im going back...
Are you guys using rubber legged eggs or rubber legged worms? How does one catch a steelhead on the Yuba? How do you know it is a steelhead? Do they have sea lice?
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.
Nice fish there Brian! Not trying to start anything, but that fish is a dead ringer for some of the Putah Creek trout. The only way to truly know if a fish is a steelie is to kill it and remove the operculum (the fish eardrum or something like that). This is from an experienced fisheries biologist.
In any case again nice fish trout or steelie. I am tying up a rubber legged egg sucking leech with a worm trailer....
True.... it does look like it might be a Feather fish that made a wrong turn??
PS You all have it wrong...it is a worm sucking egg that is the hot fly on the Y at the moment
-- Edited by AfricanAngler on Thursday 16th of December 2010 06:18:26 AM
__________________
"Three-fourths of the Earth's surface is water, and one-fourth is land. It is quite clear that the good Lord intended us to spend triple the amount of time fishing as taking care of the lawn." - Anon.
Thats y I know it was a steelhead. Its from the feather. Its been a while since I landed one up as far as I was. The majority of the ones I catch are below the weir. Cant the Feather keep a handle on their steelhead. Control your kids goshdarnit.
__________________
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.
That's now . . . wait until next week. There is 10 inches of rain being predicted for the next 6 days starting tommorrow. That place should see some epic flows. i expect to see the animals begin walking 2 by 2.
thanks shaun, I call it the wintertime steelhead mojo. plus it keeps me warm. lol.
__________________
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.
Mx . . . a new drift boat!! Sounds like Santa made an early visit. If you head out now, you might need to toss an outrigger or two ondoard. A couple of those turns will have some nice hydraulics with these flows.
I'm sure you'll have a blast in that puppy. Hyde make a great boat.
A question to all that know more about this than me...which I presume are most of you!!
I saw the flows topped out at abot 30 000 cfs..what does that do for the success of the salmon spawning??? Surely that is just going to wash all the eggs and smolt away???
Anyway happy holidays all.
Alastair
__________________
"Three-fourths of the Earth's surface is water, and one-fourth is land. It is quite clear that the good Lord intended us to spend triple the amount of time fishing as taking care of the lawn." - Anon.
I suspect some get washed away and some tuck into spots and hunker down. It'll be interesting to see I'm sure quite a bit of gravel will get pushed around. Here are a couple of pictures I copied from the Kiene's website showing the high flows. This is at 30k, imagine the 100k flow of 5 years ago!
I'm not sure, but if you look closely, I think you can see MX19 putting in, up by the rock, for a test spin in his new driftboat??? He's no sissy.
Bob
-- Edited by ONEWEIGHT on Monday 20th of December 2010 10:25:25 PM
. Â I have been fishing the Yuba with a size 22 midge... Â no luck. Â Can anyone give me some help... the water is pretty high and brown
,
