J.R. Hubbard
02-02-2006, 08:46 PM
I floated and sorta fished the Yuba today with my fried Bill Lowe. The flows are high and we knew that going in, but we just wanted to see what has changed and see if we could see any bug life. For the people that have fished that river a lot, you are in for a suprise! In some ares the river has just moved over 50-100 feet. As the flows went back down, the river created new channels in new areas. The biggest and most dramatic changes are the take outs.
The Gun Club is easier to take out at. Where you drive around the mountain and over the culvert (SP) with the pond on the left...well, that's the take out! The river has breached that pond and you pull your boat out about 20 feet from where the outhouse was. The crazy thing is that the shore on the other side of the river is in the same place, so the riveris about 200 feet across! Also, where there used to just be gravel is now fishable channels that it a slightly lower flow could fish NICE!
Sycamore is hosed! There really is just no way around it. I will try and explain this as well as I can. The creek that you once drove across to the point is now GUSHING! The Yuba has actually breached the pond next to the camp ground far above where you used to take out. Somewhere in the middle is another place where the Yuba has carved a channel and met up with the creek as well. When we were standing on what is now an island at where you would be if you drove across the creek and to the right about 50 feet, looking across at Sycamore you see WATER! The water goes right up to the campground and is cooking through! There is no way, no chance, not going to happen that you can pull out at Sycamore until the flows come down. Even then, I would still be suprised. You would think it would dry up ad you could drive across, but it SO deep now in that creek bed, that even dry I am not sure you could get a car over there.
Please forgive anything I didn't spell right o my grammar. I'm tired...it was a long windy day...and no fish, which was fine, we knew what we were getting into.
:o
The Gun Club is easier to take out at. Where you drive around the mountain and over the culvert (SP) with the pond on the left...well, that's the take out! The river has breached that pond and you pull your boat out about 20 feet from where the outhouse was. The crazy thing is that the shore on the other side of the river is in the same place, so the riveris about 200 feet across! Also, where there used to just be gravel is now fishable channels that it a slightly lower flow could fish NICE!
Sycamore is hosed! There really is just no way around it. I will try and explain this as well as I can. The creek that you once drove across to the point is now GUSHING! The Yuba has actually breached the pond next to the camp ground far above where you used to take out. Somewhere in the middle is another place where the Yuba has carved a channel and met up with the creek as well. When we were standing on what is now an island at where you would be if you drove across the creek and to the right about 50 feet, looking across at Sycamore you see WATER! The water goes right up to the campground and is cooking through! There is no way, no chance, not going to happen that you can pull out at Sycamore until the flows come down. Even then, I would still be suprised. You would think it would dry up ad you could drive across, but it SO deep now in that creek bed, that even dry I am not sure you could get a car over there.
Please forgive anything I didn't spell right o my grammar. I'm tired...it was a long windy day...and no fish, which was fine, we knew what we were getting into.
:o