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    any info on access and camping ownership was transferred to local tribe ?
    planning for this year.

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    You might Google PGE stewardship settlement. I was at one time on their mailing list. I was only interested in the Hat Creek , Fall River area, so I didn't follow Yellow creek. i do remember something that a tribe was getting the upper part of Yellow creek. Check it out.

    Dennis

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    Starting in 1978 they did this big rehab on Yellow Creek but from feedback I got it never really got better.
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    I remember asking about Yellow Creek years ago on another forum. I did end up going there
    years ago but it was pretty uneventful. All the fish were dinks.

    Too bad because it's one of the prettiest places I have fished...the meadow is quite something.
    And even downstream there is some nice pocket water.

    They should just plant it with 12 inch browns and call it good. That way there would
    probably be some nice holdovers in a year...and keep on a plantin' it.

    The campsites are nice too, not very many as I recall. It would be a good
    place to camp and then fish Butt Valley Reservoir and Lake Almanor just
    because of the landscape.

    Eric

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    Ever since the rehab and they got the cows away from the creek it never got better. A old timer told me there was some type of red worms around and in the cow patties that the fish would gorge on back in the day. That's why they were large and plump back then!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mark Kranhold View Post
    Ever since the rehab and they got the cows away from the creek it never got better. A old timer told me there was some type of red worms around and in the cow patties that the fish would gorge on back in the day. That's why they were large and plump back then!
    I was told this as well, perhaps Lincoln/Lance Gray could chime in, they seemed to have some good info on how it used to be if I recall correctly.

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxQbPmLxALc

    It is a beautiful place.....
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    I started fishing Yellow Creek with my dad in the mid 70's until 1990 when I left for Breckenridge, Colorado. It was a really good fishery back in the hey day and my favorite section as a kid was downstream of the meadow in the canyon. Poaching was one of the factors that led to Yellow Creek's demise. They got the cows out of the creek which we all thought was a good thing, until we discovered that the new fencing ruined the hatches, especially the Green Drakes. With the new fencing on each side of the creek, the birds now had a place to perch and would fly back and forth while eating large amounts of adult aquatic insects. The hatches simply vanished.

    I and others like Bill were lucky to fish many of Northern California's prime fisheries before the slow decline of habitat, and the influx of an ever growing population. - J.
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    Both Mark and Jon are correct when it comes to what they said. Yellow Creek has been in decline for years if not decades. Farther down stream between the campground and NF Feather can be good fishing. There are a couple of feeder streams the come into Yellow Creek that never get fished and they fish well.
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    thank you all

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