Tony Buzolich
05-24-2006, 10:58 AM
As Bill just mentioned in his report about rivers dropping, the feather has dropped to just under 6000cfs from 12000cfs yesterday. The Feather is actually clearer than the Yuba and warmer at 59/60 degrees.
This morning we were on the water at 5:15. First order of business was to teach a newbie how to cast a fly rod, not just a shooting head, but a real beginer who had never cast any fly rod of any kind. Uugh :(
Headed up the Yuba and water is up from yesterday and colder. No rising fish so we drift on down and start marking tons of fish on the graph,SHAD! They had to be SHAD by the thousands, all the same size. Occassionally we'd mark one big ominous looking fish that had to be a BIG striper following the schools of shad.
Moved out into the Feather, water cleared, and temp. came up. BINGO :P Fish on! Then another, then another again. Even my newbie got a hookup and landed his first striper.
Ended the morning with seven stripers and two very happy first timers who had never caught anything on a fly before.
Get out there,
TONY
This morning we were on the water at 5:15. First order of business was to teach a newbie how to cast a fly rod, not just a shooting head, but a real beginer who had never cast any fly rod of any kind. Uugh :(
Headed up the Yuba and water is up from yesterday and colder. No rising fish so we drift on down and start marking tons of fish on the graph,SHAD! They had to be SHAD by the thousands, all the same size. Occassionally we'd mark one big ominous looking fish that had to be a BIG striper following the schools of shad.
Moved out into the Feather, water cleared, and temp. came up. BINGO :P Fish on! Then another, then another again. Even my newbie got a hookup and landed his first striper.
Ended the morning with seven stripers and two very happy first timers who had never caught anything on a fly before.
Get out there,
TONY