Plants on E. & W. Carson

[LE0]

Are they still planting the East & West Carson rivers?

I looked on 3 reliable pages with no info/updates...

[JohnS]

LEO

Look on the DFG page. It's one of the links.

[JohnS]

LEO

just checked and didn't find any plants done and none scheduled. :(

[Jed Peters]

DFG is not the entity that does the majority of the stocking...it is alpine county. Reach out to them; they are a better source of info.

Jed

[Morgan]

Why are you so worried about the stockers? There is fish in there. If you dont know what your doing hit up Tahoe fly fishing and book one of the many guides that live in the area and fish on a regular basis.

[EricW]

I fished 88/89/4 over the weekend. Had good success on the upper creeks away from the easy access spots and was able to sight a lot of fish. It's still green up there but drying quickly. The EC on 89 is gorgeous shape (55° water in the morning) but was being hammered by all manner of anglers as is typical. Didn't pick up any there, so moved up.

More to your question, Alpine county has a facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Alpine-County-California/391797538608) that occasionally mentions stocking. Not sure if that's the official outlet for info.

[LE0]

Thanks all with the responses. Yeah, I had checked the DF&G page and the Alpine Co. Facebook page and saw nothing as you guys did...

With all the fishing pressure up there, I like to go fairly recently after a plant. We come up for Sacramento. So we want to make sure it will be worth the drive!

Anyway, thanks again...looks like staying in the valley for awhile...I will live. Shad still biting like crazy around here.

[El Rey]

From this morning's Sac Bee:


Alpine County planted 1800 pounds of 12- to 20-inch rainbows this past week. Alpine County will be making similar plants this week and next week to load the river with fish for a total of 5400 pounds over three weeks. The water flows were down to 220 cfs-perfect for all types of fishing. Everyone was catching limits this past week, even 4-year olds!! 12-year old Jessica Williams of Sacramento caught her own limit of rainbows on the West Carson on Gulp! salmon eggs.

Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2012/06/21/4576866/fishing-line-062112.html#storylink=cpy

[OceanSunfish]

From this morning's Sac Bee:


Alpine County planted 1800 pounds of 12- to 20-inch rainbows this past week. Alpine County will be making similar plants this week and next week to load the river with fish for a total of 5400 pounds over three weeks. The water flows were down to 220 cfs-perfect for all types of fishing. Everyone was catching limits this past week, even 4-year olds!! 12-year old Jessica Williams of Sacramento caught her own limit of rainbows on the West Carson on Gulp! salmon eggs.

Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2012/06/21/4576866/fishing-line-062112.html#storylink=cpy

It's all good.... Great to see these fishing opportunities for the kids.... On the flip side, the I 80 corridor is pretty barren for such opportunities..... I guess the "wine and cheese" economy is more important to the greater north Tahoe and Truckee areas in the eyes of CA DFG.

I grew up fishing Alpine, Calaveras, Mono, and Toulumne Counties with a nice Fenwick spinning rod and Pautzkes..... I wish I lived a bit closer..... Beautiful fishing areas.

[Mike O]

It's all good.... Great to see these fishing opportunities for the kids.... On the flip side, the I 80 corridor is pretty barren for such opportunities..... I guess the "wine and cheese" economy is more important to the greater north Tahoe and Truckee areas in the eyes of CA DFG.

I grew up fishing Alpine, Calaveras, Mono, and Toulumne Counties with a nice Fenwick spinning rod and Pautzkes..... I wish I lived a bit closer..... Beautiful fishing areas.

Nope...those rivers had historical populations of bows or cutties. They also [sarcasm]might get interbred with non native rainbows [\sarcasm]. It's the eco-whackos and their dupes, the people who want pure bred native rainbows...even though it's too late for that. But it's OK to have browns, cause they can't interbreed (and get big!).

Carsons don't potentially run to the sea, like upper Hat...so it's OK to put fish in them for kids and people who eat fish to fish for.

[LE0]

From this morning's Sac Bee:


Alpine County planted 1800 pounds of 12- to 20-inch rainbows this past week. Alpine County will be making similar plants this week and next week to load the river with fish for a total of 5400 pounds over three weeks. The water flows were down to 220 cfs-perfect for all types of fishing. Everyone was catching limits this past week, even 4-year olds!! 12-year old Jessica Williams of Sacramento caught her own limit of rainbows on the West Carson on Gulp! salmon eggs.

Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2012/06/21/4576866/fishing-line-062112.html#storylink=cpy

Thanks for the heads up....I will plan a trip up in the next few weeks!

[atavuss]

Fished the West Carson this morning, used a 2 wt. with good success as long as I remembered to not try and horse them in. It was 32 degrees in Hope Valley and 49 degrees down in the canyon at 6am. Water is in perfect condition, great day on the water.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRZvrQpWj0E

[Morgan]

Alpine has stocked the river and the baites took the majority of the alpers. I did manage to find a couple a caught a nice 20"+ alper. But there are plenty of willing wilds if you know where to look. Put em back and treat em nice. And pick up your friggn garbage and bring it home!

[atavuss]

Alpine has stocked the river and the baites took the majority of the alpers. I did manage to find a couple a caught a nice 20"+ alper. But there are plenty of willing wilds if you know where to look. Put em back and treat em nice. And pick up your friggn garbage and bring it home!

I know what you mean about the garbage, almost have to take a garbage bag in to haul out all the crap people leave laying around. :mad:

[kabah088]

Does anyone know if Alpine co clips the fin on the stockers? I hooked up on a few which are out of a stocked lake but their fins are not clipped. What do you guys think?

[OceanSunfish]

Does anyone know if Alpine co clips the fin on the stockers? I hooked up on a few which are out of a stocked lake but their fins are not clipped. What do you guys think?

I highly doubt they clip fins..... I'm not sure there's any need to do so.... From the pictures of fish I've seen it's pretty obvious if a fish was recently planted.....

[Rich Morrison]

I always check the tails. Pen raised fish have slightly rounded tail from all the rubbing on cement and other fish. Wild fish have nice sharp corners to their tails.