yubaman
01-15-2020, 05:35 PM
I ran up to the Yuba with a friend yesterday, and we fished about the entire private property above the bridge. Water conditions are great at 1350 cfs. Water has slight color to it, the beginnings of steelhead green, which I am sure will be chocolate by this time tomorrow. All in all, the flow and water conditions were about perfect.
Fishing activity seemed to be in that post-egg bite, pre-skwala holding stage. Fishing was pretty slow for us, we landed 5 between us. All very healthy fish in the 12"-15" range. I think the bruisers were holding in the deep tanker holes until the skwala's come out to play. There was a hatch of PMD's, orange and pink, for about 10 minutes somewhere around 1 pm. Nothing big, but it was very cool up there yesterday too. I think once the river clears after the storms, and it warms up a bit, it could be game on.
It seems to take a lot less people to clog up the runs on the upper river these days, as the river has been pushed into long straight feature-less runs with a scattering of riffles. People fishing have to head for the few riffles for the better fishing. I long for the riverbed to fill in a bit and have some personality ground into it.
Fishing one of these riffles yesterday, I am about 30 yards from the head of the riffle, when a guy jumps in front of me about 15 yards ahead??? I was flabbergasted. I just kept on casting and moving at my same pace, and in about 2 minutes I am right on his tail. I tell him I am not trying to pinch his water, but you jumped in RIGHT in front of me, and directly to where I was working. He says he "just wanted to get a couple of casts in"???? I say, "Funny, me too!" I was about as polite as I could be under the circumstances and he gets the message and moves out. What was this clown thinking?
On the other hand, I am hoping these storms begin moving some steelhead into the coastal rivers;););)
Fishing activity seemed to be in that post-egg bite, pre-skwala holding stage. Fishing was pretty slow for us, we landed 5 between us. All very healthy fish in the 12"-15" range. I think the bruisers were holding in the deep tanker holes until the skwala's come out to play. There was a hatch of PMD's, orange and pink, for about 10 minutes somewhere around 1 pm. Nothing big, but it was very cool up there yesterday too. I think once the river clears after the storms, and it warms up a bit, it could be game on.
It seems to take a lot less people to clog up the runs on the upper river these days, as the river has been pushed into long straight feature-less runs with a scattering of riffles. People fishing have to head for the few riffles for the better fishing. I long for the riverbed to fill in a bit and have some personality ground into it.
Fishing one of these riffles yesterday, I am about 30 yards from the head of the riffle, when a guy jumps in front of me about 15 yards ahead??? I was flabbergasted. I just kept on casting and moving at my same pace, and in about 2 minutes I am right on his tail. I tell him I am not trying to pinch his water, but you jumped in RIGHT in front of me, and directly to where I was working. He says he "just wanted to get a couple of casts in"???? I say, "Funny, me too!" I was about as polite as I could be under the circumstances and he gets the message and moves out. What was this clown thinking?
On the other hand, I am hoping these storms begin moving some steelhead into the coastal rivers;););)