Rain + Yuba = ?

[trog]

Any sense how this rain might cloud up the Yuba for the weekend? Rained pretty much all night down here in the Bay Area.

[FireFly]

trog,
There was no rain overnight. Not real sure what the forcast is for Sat. or Sun. The river is in good shape as of now. I am going to spend today down there, I will let you know how it goes.

[Big Jim]

I am going to be there sunday...will you let us know what bugs you saw...I might have a little time to tie on saturday.

Thanks

Jim

[FireFly]

Jim,
We fished the Yuba Friday,we fished our butts off for three fish. All three fish were taken under a indicator on a caddis pupa. Very few bugs were on the water. We did see some BWO, a caddis would pop every now and then,also saw a few yellow sallys. The only look we got on top was on a march brown pattern, however we did not see a march brown all day. Good Luck!!!!! Let me know how you did
Rich

[trog]

Thanks for the report, Rich.

[Big Jim]

Thanks for the report... sounds like it might be tough, unless we just plain get lucky.

I will let you know.

Jim

[EveningHatch]

THE REPORT

Sooo...Trog and I went out from the bridge and worked our way down in the morning, no trout were caught on "traditional flies" - though we did catch 1 trout on an egg pattern, and had 2 hook ups, one on crystal bugger #8 or so, and one on the good old brown san juan worm.

We noted Caddis and PMD - light hatches in the afternoon between showers, morning was solid rain.

River was 4 ft of vis, slight green/brown tint from rain, where it was visible it ran somewhat clear with a bit of silt.

We did see fish, though they did not appear hungry. A couple of rises in the afternoon. Fished from 7am to 3pm roughly...

River flow was low but still could easily suck you down river in a hurry...legs are a bit sore today from wading, there were no places to safely cross where we were.

I personally tried 12 different patterns or so including: caddis emerger, PMD dry (wishful thinking, needed the bliss of casting without splitshot/nymph), Prince of darkness, Dark lord, a pattern we affectionately call turd with legs brownish creepy crawly looking thing, San Juan Worm, various 16-20 nymphs, egg pattern.

95% of the casting was nymph with indicater. Beautiful day, not much fishing pressure cause of the rain...great day to practice some casting in some tough water with not-hungry fish.

[FireFly]

Well, it sounds like you boys gave it a pretty good effort. I dont know, but that Lower Yuba can be very stingy at times. I am on my way down there right now for a few hours. Also going to fish Wendsday and Friday, hopefully by the end of the week I will have a more up beat report.

Rich

[trog]

Rich - Had most of our luck between 7:30 a.m. and 9 a.m., thought the wooly bugger hookup (on a sinking line in a deep hole) came around 3 p.m.
If the water clarity holds, you could be in for a good day today, though that river is indeed fickle.

Olaf (Trog)

[robdog]

I won a spot from DFG's lottery to fish the UC SFREC. I went there early in the morning. There was a caddis hatch going on. The swallows were everywhere on the water eating these flies, but I didn't see many fish. Hell, the swallows were pecking at my fly in the water. I don't think I was properly equipped, cause I had a fish on my fly, but it snapped off my leader. I think it was Salmon. Maybe I should have used my 8wt, instead of my 6wt. As the day warmed up & the rain stopped, I saw less fish. I think you have to fish during the limit light hours (dawn & dusk). I have never done this on the Yuba, but I will try this tactic in the future. It seems to work elsewhere.