yubaman
08-20-2016, 12:42 PM
Chris, here's your report:
In one word . . . HOT, as in 102 degrees yesterday. When you're from Albany, where a warm day is 75 degrees, man was it hot on the Yuba yesterday. Started very early in the morning, knowing the heat would probably chase me off by 2:30, which it did.
Got a couple of fish, had a nice one break me off right on the take as well. Got one on a hopper on top, another on an S&M down below and a couple on the trust Rubberlegs. I'm guessing most of the fish are down deep in the holes right now. I did see a few smaller fish rising sporadically during the day, but not much to speak of. Pitched some streamers for awhile, but no takers.
This was the first that I had fished the upper-upper section of the river, near the narrows, since the high flows. Dramatic changes in streambed topography to say the least. The river looks great. The gravel push-around has the river itself looking in excellent shape. The rocks seem to have gotten a good cleansing this spring as well. Some runs filled in, other were gouged out, but all-in-all, the Yuba is looking to me to be in great shape. Once the bugs become re-established, this could be the start of another real upswing in the life of the river. The fish were very healthy, nice and chunky. I'm thinking we could be in for a great winter and spring of the upcoming season, keep our fingers crossed.
Here are a couple of pictures from the day. As you can see on the rock, and I saw this all day, the Stonefly population looks very abundant. I thought the log looked very cool. It looks like it became trapped somewhere on the river during the high flows, where the flow just worked the log over on some gravel and produced this nice sanded effect on the log. It really highlighted the grain of the wood. I'm thinking one coat of sanding sealer and about 4 coats of gloss lacquer, and you've got a nice piece to put in the home somewhere?
That was last gasp on the upper river before the September 1 closure for me.
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In one word . . . HOT, as in 102 degrees yesterday. When you're from Albany, where a warm day is 75 degrees, man was it hot on the Yuba yesterday. Started very early in the morning, knowing the heat would probably chase me off by 2:30, which it did.
Got a couple of fish, had a nice one break me off right on the take as well. Got one on a hopper on top, another on an S&M down below and a couple on the trust Rubberlegs. I'm guessing most of the fish are down deep in the holes right now. I did see a few smaller fish rising sporadically during the day, but not much to speak of. Pitched some streamers for awhile, but no takers.
This was the first that I had fished the upper-upper section of the river, near the narrows, since the high flows. Dramatic changes in streambed topography to say the least. The river looks great. The gravel push-around has the river itself looking in excellent shape. The rocks seem to have gotten a good cleansing this spring as well. Some runs filled in, other were gouged out, but all-in-all, the Yuba is looking to me to be in great shape. Once the bugs become re-established, this could be the start of another real upswing in the life of the river. The fish were very healthy, nice and chunky. I'm thinking we could be in for a great winter and spring of the upcoming season, keep our fingers crossed.
Here are a couple of pictures from the day. As you can see on the rock, and I saw this all day, the Stonefly population looks very abundant. I thought the log looked very cool. It looks like it became trapped somewhere on the river during the high flows, where the flow just worked the log over on some gravel and produced this nice sanded effect on the log. It really highlighted the grain of the wood. I'm thinking one coat of sanding sealer and about 4 coats of gloss lacquer, and you've got a nice piece to put in the home somewhere?
That was last gasp on the upper river before the September 1 closure for me.
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12269
12270